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✧ Thomas Cranmer ✧

Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury. He helped build the case for the annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. He established the first doctrinal and liturgical structures of the Church of England and published the Exhortation and Litany. When E...

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A law passed in 1539 made it a capital offence for a priest to marry a woman. (Strangely, keeping a woman as a concubine resulted only in confiscation of property.) A late amendment allowed married priests three weeks to "put away" their wives without penalty. Archbishop Cranmer sent his wife and children to Germany.

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