Sometimes the pope tried to parachute in a foreign candidate ... But perhaps the most influential Archbishop of Canterbury was Thomas Cranmer, a loyal supporter of Henry VIII’s break from ...
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On this day, March 21
1556 On the day of his execution in Oxford, former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer deviates from the scripted sermon by renouncing his recantations and adds, “And as for the pope ...