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Owen Oglethorpe: Bishop of Carlisle (died 1559) was an English academic and bishop.
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Childhood and Education
He was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, (where he later founded a school) in approximately 1505-10 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was elected a fellow in 1526 and received his MA in 1529 and his DD in 1536. He was reputed to have taken a keen interest in his studies.
Career
He was appointed a Junior Proctor at Oxford University in 1533 and President of Magdalen in 1535. He was also Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1551 and a canon of both Christ Church, Oxford and St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
He was unpopular with the Puritans and was forced to resign his university offices in 1552, but was reappointed by Queen Mary and was Dean of Windsor from 1553 to 1556.
Elizabeth I's Coronation
He became Bishop of Carlisle in 1557. Whilst saying mass in the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace on 25 December 1558 he incurred the wrath of a furious Queen Elizabeth I (who had succeeded her half-sister Mary I on the latter's death on 17 November) when, contrary to her explicit instructions, he elevated the host, thereby implying the corporeal presence of Christ - an anathema to Elizabeth I's more Protestant religious beliefs. Elizabeth stormed out of the service. Nevertheless, being the only Bishop prepared to officiate at her coronation on 15 January 1559 in Westminster Abbey, he did so, again ignored her instructions not to elevate the host at the coronation mass which followed the crowning, again had the Queen walk out on him — this time from her own coronation service — and he was rewarded for his services by being deprived of his see later the same year (1559) very shortly before he died.
References
Dictionary of National Biography
Academic offices Preceded by
Thomas KnollysPresident of Magdalen College, Oxford
1536–1552Succeeded by
Walter HaddonPreceded by
William TreshamVice-Chancellor of Oxford University
1551–1552Succeeded by
James Brokes alias Brooks, Richard MartiallPreceded by
Walter HaddonPresident of Magdalen College, Oxford
1553–1555Succeeded by
Arthur ColeChurch of England titles Preceded by
Robert AldrichBishop of Carlisle
1557–1559Succeeded by
John BestCategories:- 1559 deaths
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