Ralph Baines
Roman Catholic | |
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Diocese | Lichfield |
Appointed | 10 November 1554 |
Term ended | 24 Jun 1559 |
Predecessor | Richard Sampson |
Successor | Thomas Bentham |
Orders | |
Consecration | 18 November 1554 by Edmund Bonner |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1504 |
Died | 18 November 1559 |
Ralph Baines or "Bayne"
Early life
Baines was born around 1504 at
He was rector of Hardwick, Cambridgeshire, until 1544;[4] but he had left the country by 1538.[5]
Hebraist
Baines was a Hebraist, being a college lecturer in Hebrew at St John's. He went to Paris and became professor of
He was the author of the work Compendium Michlol (also with the Hebrew title, Ḳiẓẓur ha-Ḥeleḳ Rishon ha-Miklol), containing a Latin abstract of the first part of
Bishop
In 1554, Baines returned to England and was consecrated as Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, on 18 November 1554.
He vigorously opposed the Protestant Reformers, and features largely in
On the accession of
Works
- Prima Rudimenta in linguam Hebraicam (Paris, 1550)
- Compendium Michol, hoc est absolutissimæ grammatices Davidis Chimhi (Paris, 1554)
- In Proverbia Salomonis (Paris, 1555).
References
- Nicholas Sanders, Report to Cardinal Moroni, 1561 (Cath. Record Soc. Pubs., 1905), I
- John Pitts, De Angliae Scriptoribus (1623)
- Charles Dodd, Church History (1688), Pt. III, ii, art. 3
- Charles Henry Cooper, Athenæ Cantabrigienses, 1,202
- Joseph Gillow, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath. (London, 1885)
- Thomas Edward Bridgett and Thomas Francis Knox, Q. Eliz. and the Cath. Hierarchy (London, 1889)
- G. E. Phillips, Extinction of the Ancient Hierarchy (London, 1905)
- Johann Christoph Wolf, Bibliotheca Hebrœa, i. 308.
Notes
- ^ Bayne, Baynes, Banes; Rudolphus, Rudolph, Rodolph, Rodolphus Baynus.
- ^ "Baynes, Ralph (BNS517R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Richard Rex, The Theology of John Fisher (1991), p. 176.
- ^ History – Hardwick village Archived 29 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Peter Marshall, Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England (2006), p. 232.
- ^ The Circulation of Knowledge in Humanist Europe – CNRS Web site – CNRS
- ^ http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/apparatus/person_glossaryB.html, under Ralph Bayne.
- ^ John Foxe's Book of Martyrs Archived 16 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Blind Joan (22) Is Executed Archived 20 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, HeadlineHistory.co.uk, accessed February 2009
- ^ Bishops | British History Online
External links
- Ralph Baines, article in the Catholic Encyclopedia
- Source, Jewish Encyclopedia
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Baynus (Bayne), Rudolphus". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ralph Baines". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.