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Edmund Scambler

English bishop

Field	Value
honorific-prefix
name	Edmund Scambler
image	Bp Edmund Scambler.jpg
title	Bishop of Norwich
church	Church of England
diocese	Diocese of Norwich
enthroned	1585
ended	1594 (death)
predecessor	Edmund Freke
successor	William Redman
other_post	Bishop of Peterborough (1561–1585)
birth_date
birth_place	Gressingham, Lancashire
death_date
nationality	English
religion	Anglican
alma_mater	Peterhouse, Cambridge

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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.

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

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

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

Notes

References

{{acad
"Townships: Gressingham | British History Online".
{{cite DNB
[[Patrick Collinson]], ''The Elizabethan Puritan Movement'' (1982), p. 61.
{{cite DNB
"Our Bible & the Ancient MSS: Chap.11: The English Printed Bible".
{{cite DNB
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.

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