This week in Christian history: Pope warns against ‘Americanism’, Robert Boyle, Bible translator dies

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Sunday, January 19, 2020

Miles Coverdale dies - January 20, 1569

This week marks the anniversary of when Bishop Miles Coverdale, a Protestant Reformation leader who helped William Tyndale translate the Bible into English, passed away.

Ordained a priest in 1514 and later made an Augustinian friar at Cambridge, Coverdale came to support the Protestant Reformation and at one point had to flee England due to persecution.

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“In 1529 he helped William Tyndale (q.v.) translate the Pentateuch in Hamburg and then apparently settled in Antwerp, where he translated the Bible,” explained Britannica.

“He later returned to England and took up the Reform cause, translating tracts and editing the Great Bible (1539). In 1540 Henry VIII’s religious policies forced him to flee, and he settled in Strasbourg. After Henry’s death he returned to England, supported the new Protestant religious line, and was made bishop of Exeter (1551).”