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- Richard Bancroft was not personally ambitious but achieved the position of Archbishop of Canterbury. He was a tireless advocate for conformity to the Anglican orthodoxy of his time, yet he counted among those he admired, Puritans like his friend Chaderton.
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Richard Bancroft was not personally ambitious but achieved the position of Archbishop of Canterbury. He was a tireless advocate for conformity to the Anglican orthodoxy of his time, yet he counted among those he admired, Puritans like his friend Chaderton.
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Richard Bancroft (1544 – 2 November 1610) was an English churchman, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1604 to 1610 and "chief overseer" of the King James Bible.
Richard Bancroft was the 74th archbishop of Canterbury (1604–10), notable for his stringent opposition to Puritanism, his defense of ecclesiastical hierarchy and tradition, and his efforts to ensure doctrinal and liturgical conformity among the clergy of the Church of England.
Mar 17, 2015 · Richard Bancroft was the man trusted by James I to argue on behalf of the government religious matters that occurred during his reign. Bancroft was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1604 until his death in 1610. Bancroft believed that Puritanism had the potential to socially and politically destabilise the country – hence his repression of it.
RICHARD BANCROFT1 MATTHEW PARKER died in 1575, forty years after the Reformation movement began. The hope of Papal supremacy in England perished with the accession of Elizabeth, and new questions rapidly arose within the English Church. The Puritan objective was destruction of episcopal government and abolition of liturgical wor
In June 1597 he was consecrated Bishop of London; and from this time, in consequence of the age and incapacity for business of Archbishop Whitgift, he was virtually invested with the power of primate, and had the sole management of ecclesiastical affairs.
RICHARD BANCROFT (1544-16to), archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Farnworth in Lancashire in 1544. He was educated at Cambridge, first at Christ's College and afterwards at Jesus College. He took his degree of B.A. in 1567 and that of M.A. in 1570.
