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Lancelot Andrewes (1555 – 25 September 1626) was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.
Lancelot Andrewes was a theologian and court preacher who sought to defend and advance Anglican doctrines during a period of great strife in the English church. Andrewes was elected a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1575 and was ordained a deacon in 1580.
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Lancelot Andrewes was Dean of Westminster from 1601-1605 but he has no memorial in the Abbey. He has a fine monument in Southwark cathedral in London where he is buried. He was a son of Thomas and Joan and educated at Merchant Taylors school and Cambridge.
Lancelot Andrewes (* 16. Juli 1555 in London; † 25. September 1626 ebenda) war ein englischer Gelehrter, Theologe und Prediger.
Jun 30, 2014 · Besides contending for the greatest name in British history, Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) was the most renowned preacher of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Nicknamed stella predicantium (“star of preachers”) by Thomas Fuller, Andrewes has been a source of fascination and reverence for Catholic-leaning Anglicans from Archbishop William ...
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), Bishop of Winchester, was on the committee of scholars that produced the King James Translation of the Bible, and probably contributed more to that work than any other single person.
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Mar 31, 2021 · Andrewes would die in 1626, during the first year of Charles I’s reign and just in time to avoid a period of particularly intense internecine religious conflict. The division between Calvinists and Arminians mirrored cultural and political distinctions which would manifest in the coming Civil War.
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