Nicholas Ridley (martyr)

The Right Reverend Nicholas Ridley
Bishop of London and Westminster
Late 16th century portrait of Nicholas Ridley in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Church	Church of England
Installed	1550
Term ended	1553
Predecessor	Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London
Successor	Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London
Other post(s)	Bishop of Rochester (1547–1550)
Orders
Consecration	5 September 1547 by Henry Holbeach
Personal details
Born	Nicholas Ridley c. 1500 South Tynedale, Northumberland, England
Died	16 October 1555 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Denomination	Anglicanism
Sainthood
Feast day	16 October
Venerated in	Anglican Communion
Title as Saint	Oxford Martyr

Nicholas Ridley (c. 1500 – 16 October 1555) was an English Bishop of London (the only bishop called "Bishop of London and Westminster"^[1]). Ridley was one of the Oxford Martyrs burned at the stake during the Marian Persecutions, for his teachings and his support of Lady Jane Grey. He is remembered with a commemoration in the calendar of saints (with Hugh Latimer) in some parts of the Anglican Communion (Church of England) on 16 October.^[2]