Henry Parry (bishop of Worcester)
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Henry Parry (1561 – 12 December 1616) was an English bishop.
Life
Parry was the son of Henry Parry, chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral.{{Cite DNB|wstitle=Parry, Henry|last=Venables|first=Edmund|volume=43}} He was born in Wiltshire, and came as scholar to Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1576. He graduated B.A. 1581, M.A. 1585, B.D. 1592, D.D. 1596, and became a Fellow of Corpus Christi in 1586, and served as Greek reader at Corpus Christi.{{alox1|title=Parrey, Henry}}
He was a friend of both Lancelot Andrewes and Richard Hooker, who was Fellow of Corpus Christi with him. With John Churchman he recovered the papers of Hooker, shortly after his death in 1600. He took part in the editorial group which met in 1601 to bring the final volumes of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity into their published form.{{cite book|last=Secor|first=Philip B.|year=1999|title=Richard Hooker: Prophet of Anglicanism|pages=327-9 and note p. 340}}
Archbishop Whitgift presented Parry to a series of vicarages in Kent: he was vicar of Monkton (1591–4), rector of Great Mongeham (1594–6), and rector of Chevening and Sundridge (1596–1610).
He was chaplain to Elizabeth I and was present at her deathbed, documented in the diary of John Manningham.{{cite book|last=Ponsonby|first=Arthur|author-link=Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede|year=1923|title=English Diaries|pages=113-4|url=https://archive.org/details/englishdiariesre00ponsuoft/englishdiariesre00ponsuoft/page/112|access-date=8 December 2023}} A Ming period wucai tea kettle, said to have been given by the Queen to Parry, at a time when porcelain was rare in England, was sold in 2007 for over £1,000,000.[https://archive.today/20120912151028/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1548134/Teapot-fit-for-a-Queen-sells-for-over-andpound1m.html The Daily Telegraph]{{Cite web|url=http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/an-important-and-rare-wucai-wine-ewer-and-cover-1-c-1cxw1tilv0|title = The World's Premier Online Auctions}}
He was Dean of Chester from 1605 to 1607.{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35845|title=Deans of Chester | British History Online}} He was Bishop of Gloucester from 1607 to 1610 and Bishop of Worcester from 1610 to 1616. There is an alabaster effigy of Parry in Worcester Cathedral.Alan Brooks, Nikolaus Pevsner, Worcestershire: The Buildings of England (2007), p. 695.
Works
Parry translated the Heidelberg Catechism into English, from the Latin version, with commentary by Zacharias Ursinus. This work appeared as The Summe of Christian Religion, first edition in Oxford in 1587, and often reprinted.Falconer Madan, The Early Oxford Press: A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, 1468-1640 (1895) In 1610 he translated into Latin The Summe of the Conference betwene John Rainoldes and John Hart (1584), the record of the disputation between John Rainolds and John Hart.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hart, John (d.1586)|volume=25}}
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