Edmund Scambler
Bishop of Norwich
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseDiocese of Norwich
Installed1585
Term ended1594 (death)
PredecessorEdmund Freke
SuccessorWilliam Redman
Other post(s)Bishop of Peterborough (1561–1585)
Personal details
Bornc.1520
Died(1594-05-07)7 May 1594
NationalityEnglish
DenominationAnglican
Alma materPeterhouse, Cambridge

Edmund Scambler (c. 1520 – 7 May 1594) was an English bishop.

Life

He was born at Gressingham, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, Queens' College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1542.[1][2][3]

Under Mary I of England he was pastor to a covert Protestant congregation in London.[4] He was a chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker.[5]

He became Bishop of Peterborough in 1561, and was a reviser of the Bishops' Bible.[3][6] He suspended Eusebius Pagit, then vicar of Lamport, in 1574.[7]

In 1585 he became Bishop of Norwich. He was responsible there for the heresy proceedings against Francis Kett.[8]

Notes

  1. "Scambler, Edmund (SCMR541E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. "Townships: Gressingham | British History Online".
  3. 1 2 "Scambler, Edmund" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1982), p. 61.
  5. "Parker, Matthew" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  6. "Our Bible & the Ancient MSS: Chap.11: The English Printed Bible".
  7. "Pagit, Eusebius" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  8. 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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