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Stephen Gardiner (27 July 1483 – 12 November 1555) was an English Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I and King Philip.
Stephen Gardiner (c. 1483 [1] - 12 de noviembre de 1555) fue un obispo inglés de la Iglesia católica y político durante el período de la Reforma anglicana quién fue Lord Canciller durante el reinado de María I de Inglaterra.
5 de mar. de 2024 · Stephen Gardiner was an English bishop and statesman, a leading exponent of conservatism in the first generation of the English Reformation. Although he supported the antipapal policies of King Henry VIII (ruled 1509–47), Gardiner rejected Protestant doctrine and ultimately backed the severe Roman.
Biography. Ph.D., Philosophy, Cornell University, 1999. Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also Director of the Program on Ethics. His research focuses on global environmental problems, future ...
18 de may. de 2018 · Gardiner, Stephen (c.1497–1555). Bishop. One of the most influential courtier-prelates of the early Tudor age, Gardiner sought to reconcile political advancement with principled defence of the rights of the church. He studied and taught at Cambridge until taken up by Wolsey as a secretary in 1524.
Bishop of Winchester (1531–51; 1553–55). A protégé of Thomas Wolsey, he assisted in the negotiations to secure Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. He defended the royal supremacy over the Church, most notably in De Vera Obedientia (1535), but was opposed to Protestantism.
Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester 1531-55, is familiar as "Wily Winchester," the villain of Foxe's Actes and Monuments. Foxe, however, was building on a long evan gelical tradition which cast Gardiner as Antichrist's chief agent in England.
