John Fisher

For John Arbuthnot Fisher, British admiral, see Jackie Fisher.

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John Fisher (circa 1469 - 22 June,1535), controversialist and scholar, born at

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Beverley, and educated at Cambridge, entered the Church, and became in 1504

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Bishop of Rochester. He wrote in Latin against the doctrines of the

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Reformation, but was a supporter of the New Learning, and endeavoured to

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get Erasmus to teach Greek at Cambridge Through his influence the Lady

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Margaret Professorship of Divinity was founded at both the University by

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Margaret Countess of Richmond, and in 1502 he became first professor at

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Cambridge, where he was also (1505-8) Head of Queen's College. He was also

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instrumental in founding Christ's and St. John's College. For opposing the

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divorce proceedings of Henry VIII, he was convicted of treason and beheaded. Made a cardinal in 1535, he was beatified in 1886, and, in 1935 he was canonized.

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Fisher's remains were buried in the church of All Hallows-by-the-Tower.

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Saint John Fisher College in Rochester, Monroe County, New York and St John Fisher College at the University of Tasmania in Hobart are named after him.

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Beverley: Beverley is a market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, north of Kingston-upon-Hull, east of Market Weighton and west of Hornsea....

Cambridge: :This article is about the Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England; see also other places called Cambridge....

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