Robert Parfew
Roman Catholic | |
|---|---|
| See | Hereford |
| In office | 1554–1557 |
| Predecessor | John Harley |
| Successor | Thomas Reynolds |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 2 July 1536 by Thomas Cranmer |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 22 September 1557 |
| Nationality | English |
| Previous post(s) | Bishop of St Asaph (1536–1554) |
Robert Parfew (or Robert Warton) (died 22 September 1557) was an English Benedictine abbot, at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, and bishop successively of St Asaph and Hereford.
Life
He was probably born in the late years of the fifteenth century. He is known by different names, variants of two.bishop of St. Asaph, but retained his abbacy in commendam till 1538, when the abbey was suppressed, and Warton received a substantial pension.
Warton lived mostly at
The Institution of a Christian Man. On 18 August 1538 he received the surrender of the Carmelites of Denbigh Friary, and in 1539 he cautiously commended confession
as very requisite and expedient, though not enjoined by the word of God.
He had a plan, the revival of a plan of 1282, for moving the seat of the cathedral and grammar school of his diocese to
Prince Edward and the funeral of Jane Seymour; in 1538 he was at the reception of Anne of Cleves, the declaration of whose nullity of marriage he afterwards signed. He liked to reside in his remote diocese; when in London, even after the dissolution, he seems to have stayed at Bermondsey. In 1548 he was one of those who in the drawing up of the Book of Common Prayer represented the Bangor use. In 1551 he was placed on the Council for Wales
.
At the beginning of
John Harley
, who had been deprived. He died on 22 September 1557.
Notes
- David Richard Thomas, cited in the DNB, concluded that the family name was Parfey or Parfew, and that the local name of Warton in various forms was adopted.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Warton, Robert". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
