Edmund Freke
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Edmund Freke | |
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Bishop of Worcester | |
Church | Church of England |
Diocese | Diocese of Worcester |
Installed | 1584 |
Term ended | 1591 (death) |
Predecessor | John Whitgift |
Successor | Richard Fletcher |
Other posts |
Bishop of Rochester & Archdeacon of Canterbury (1572–1575) Bishop of Norwich (1575–1584) |
Personal details | |
Born |
c. 1516 Essex |
Died | 1591 (aged 74–75) |
Nationality | English |
Denomination | Anglican |
Alma mater | Cambridge University |
Edmund Freke (also spelled Freake or Freak; c. 1516–1591) was an English dean and bishop.
Life
He was born in Essex, and educated at Cambridge,[1] gaining his M.A. there c. 1550.[2]
He was Dean of Salisbury and Dean of Rochester from 1571 to 1572 when he became Bishop of Rochester and was simultaneously Archdeacon of Canterbury in commendam.[3] In 1575, he became Bishop of Norwich.[4] There, unlike his predecessor John Parkhurst, he campaigned hard to impose uniformity in his diocese.[5][6]
In 1579 he tried and then burnt a Norfolk plowright, Matthew Hamont, for heresy.
In 1584, he became Bishop of Worcester.[4]
Notes
- ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63712
- ↑ "Freake, Edmund (FRK550E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ British History Online: Archdeacons of Canterbury 1541–1857: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, volume 3: Canterbury, Rochester and Winchester dioceses (1974), pp. 15-17. Date accessed: 10 January 2010.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ↑ Christopher Durston, Princes, Pastors and People: The Church and Religion in England, 1529-1689 (1991), p. 133.
- ↑ Ralph Houlbrooke, Godly Reformers and their Opponents in Early Modern England: Religion in Norwich, c.1560-1643, The English Historical Review 2007 CXXII(497), pp. 751-753.
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Preceded by Edmund Gheast |
Bishop of Rochester 1572–1576 |
Succeeded by John Piers |
Preceded by John Parkhurst |
Bishop of Norwich 1575–1584 |
Succeeded by Edmund Scambler |
Preceded by John Whitgift |
Bishop of Worcester 1584–1591 |
Succeeded by Richard Fletcher |
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