John Hooper (bishop)


John Hooper
Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseWorcester and Gloucester
In office1552–1554
PredecessorNicholas Heath
SuccessorNicholas Heath (restored)
Other post(s)Bishop of Gloucester (1551–1552)
Orders
Consecration8 March 1551
by Thomas Cranmer
Personal details
Died9 February 1555
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
NationalityEnglish
DenominationAnglican
SpouseAnne de Tscerlas
Children2
Alma materMerton College, Oxford

John Roy Hooper (also Johan Hoper; c. 1495 – 9 February 1555) was an English churchman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester, later of Worcester and Gloucester, a Protestant reformer and a Protestant martyr. A proponent of the English Reformation, he was executed for heresy by burning during the reign of Queen Mary I.


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