John Christopherson

William Barlow
William Barlow
Orders
Consecration	21 November 1557; by Edmund Bonner
Personal details
Died	December 1558

John Christopherson (died December 1558) was Chaplain and confessor to Queen Mary I of England, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1553–1558), Dean of Norwich (1554–1557) and Bishop of Chichester (1557–1558) - all during the reign of Queen Mary (1553–1558).

Born at

Edward VI he went abroad to Louvain.^[1] In 1555, he was one of the accusers of William Wolsey and Richard Pygot,^[2] and he was involved in the trial of the Protestant martyr Richard Woodman in Southwark. He was a member of a commission under direction from Stephen Gardiner to reintroduce Catholicism to the University of Cambridge

.

He died in 1558. He had been put under house arrest following his definition of Protestantism as "a new invention of new men and heresies" on 27 November 1558, preached in response to a sermon at Paul's Cross. He died a month later, in late December 1558, either the 22nd or the 28th, and was buried at Christchurch, Newgate Street, where he had held a lease to the Prior's lodging and two gardens.

Iphigenia at Aulis), which is noteworthy for being the only Tudor play written in Greek. (The Scotsman George Buchanan wrote one in Latin

on the same theme.)

References

^ "Christopherson, John (CHRR540J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ "The Diocese of Ely - About Us - the Good & the Great - William Wolsey of Upwell & Robert Pygot of Wisbech". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
^ History of Greyfriars: the site and buildings; British History Online. Accessed 26 November 2022.

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Church of England titles
Preceded by George Day	Bishop of Chichester 1557–1558	Succeeded by William Barlow
Academic offices
Preceded by William Bill	Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1553–1558	Succeeded by William Bill

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[1] "Christopherson, John (CHRR540J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[2] "The Diocese of Ely - About Us - the Good & the Great - William Wolsey of Upwell & Robert Pygot of Wisbech". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2011.

[3] History of Greyfriars: the site and buildings; British History Online. Accessed 26 November 2022.

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