Edmund Scambler

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Diocese of Norwich
Installed1585
Term ended1594 (death)
PredecessorEdmund Freke
SuccessorWilliam Redman
Other post(s)Bishop of Peterborough (1561–1585)
Personal details
Bornc. 1520
Died(1594-05-07)7 May 1594
NationalityEnglish
DenominationAnglican
Alma materPeterhouse, Cambridge

Edmund Scambler (c. 1520 – 7 May 1594) was an English bishop from

Cambridge University. He served as pastor under Queen Mary Tudor
.

Life

He was born at Gressingham, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, Queens' College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1542.[1][2][3]

Under Mary I of England he was pastor to a covert Protestant congregation in London.[4] He was a chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker.[5]

He became Bishop of Peterborough in 1561, and was a reviser of the Bishops' Bible.[3][6] He suspended Eusebius Pagit, then vicar of Lamport, in 1574.[7]

In 1585 he became Bishop of Norwich. He was responsible there for the heresy proceedings against Francis Kett.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ "Scambler, Edmund (SCMR541E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "Townships: Gressingham | British History Online".
  3. ^ a b "Scambler, Edmund" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. ^ Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1982), p. 61.
  5. ^ "Parker, Matthew" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  6. ^ "Our Bible & the Ancient MSS: Chap.11: The English Printed Bible".
  7. ^ "Pagit, Eusebius" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  8. ^ Dewey D. Wallace, Jr., From Eschatology to Arian Heresy: The Case of Francis Kett (d. 1589), The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 67, No. 4 (October 1974), pp. 459-473.
Church of England titles
Preceded by
David Poole
Bishop of Peterborough
1561–1584
Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Norwich
1585–1594
Succeeded by