Elizabethan Era
Elizabeth’s popularity and the skill of men like Parker helped ensure the permanent establishment of Protestantism in Britain, although there were still many bumps in the road ahead.
Elizabeth’s popularity and the skill of men like Parker helped ensure the permanent establishment of Protestantism in Britain, although there were still many bumps in the road ahead.
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury, was born in Nottinghamshire, England, and studied at Jesus College, Cambridge for eight years. In 1523 he became a university preacher.