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By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

Archbishop Thomas Cranmer Burned at the Stake - March 21, 1556

Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), former Archbishop of Canterbury who introduced the Book of Common Prayer to the Church of England.
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), former Archbishop of Canterbury who introduced the Book of Common Prayer to the Church of England. | (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

This week marks the anniversary of when Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant to hold the church position, was burned at the stake for his beliefs.

A native of Aslacton, Nottinghamshire, England, Archbishop Cranmer was noted for his efforts to reform England's church, contributing to the creation of the modern Book of Common Prayer.

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When Catholic monarch Queen Mary I, also called "Bloody Mary," came to power, Cranmer was imprisoned for his Protestant beliefs, forced to sign recantations which he later publicly disavowed, and then was burned at the stake.

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