John Longland
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John Longland (1473 – 7 May 1547) was an English cleric. He was Dean of Salisbury from 1514 to 1521 and Bishop of Lincoln from 1521 to his death in 1547.
Career
He was made a Demy at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1491 and became a Fellow. He was King Henry VIII's confessor{{cite book |title=Political Thought and the Tudor Commonwealth |last1=Fideler |first1=P.A. |last2=Mayer|first2= T.F. |year=1992
|publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415-06672-7 |pages=98 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=boNIDnBuiQ4C&dq=Longland+pilgrimage&pg=PA98}} and was said to have been one of those who first persuaded the King that he should annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.Spanish Chronicle, p. 5.
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In 1519 he was appointed Canon of the sixth stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1520. He was also Lord Almoner from c.1521.{{cite book|title=Athenæ Oxonienses - an Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops ..., Volume 1|page=58}} He was consecrated a bishop on 5 May 1521, by William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Nicholas West, Bishop of Ely; and John Vesey, Bishop of Exeter.Perceval, Arthur Philip. An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession: With an Appendix, on the English Orders. second edition (London: Rivington, 1841) [https://archive.org/details/anapologyfordoc00socigoog/page/n204 p. 188].
During the English Reformation, he was among the conservative bishops, recognizing Transubstantiation. His conservatism is attested to by his complaint in 1536 to Thomas Cromwell about Protestant preachers in his diocese.Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars (Yale University Press, 2005), p. 388.
Longland is referred to by John Foxe, the martyrologist, as "a fierce and cruel vexer of the faithful, poor servants of Christ." Foxe states that he violently constrained men, women, and maidens to testify against one another. He delivered some over to the secular arm to be burned.
See also
- Lollardy, a protestant reform movement persecuted by Longland
- Agnes Ashford, a protestant evangelist threatened and intimidated by Longland
- List of chancellors of the University of Oxford
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Category:16th-century English bishops