John Potter (Bishop)

John Potter

John Potter (born around 1674 in Wakefield , Yorkshire; † October 10, 1747 ) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1737 until his death in 1747 . Potter was married to Elizabeth Venner.

Life

John Potter was the son of a white goods retailer from Wakefield ( Yorkshire ). At the age of fourteen he entered Oxford University College . From 1694 he was a lecturer at Lincoln College , Oxford. In 1704 he became a chaplain under Archbishop Thomas Tenison . A good ten years later, in 1715, he became Bishop of Oxford .

He published several theological works, including 1707 the " Discourse on Church Government " ( Discourse on Church Government ), and he played a prominent role in the dispute with Benjamin Hoadly , Bishop of Bangor . From 1708 to 1737 he was Royal Professor of Theology at Oxford University ( Regius Professor of Divinity ). In this function he had a meeting with Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf in 1737 . Potter was a supporter of the Whigs . He was made Archbishop of Canterbury on February 9, 1737.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joseph Hirst Lupton: Potter, John (1674? –1747) . In: Dictionary of National Biography , Vol. 46: Pocock - Puckering (on Wikisource ).
2. ^ J. Parker: The Oxford University Calendar 1831 . W. Baxter, Oxford 1831.
3. ^ List of the bishops of the Diocese of Oxford at www.oxford.anglican.org; accessed on May 24, 2016.
4. ^ Werner Rackwitz: Friedrich Wilhelm I. - Count Zinzendorf. The soldier king and the preacher of the religion of the heart .
5. ↑ Joachim Bahlcke , Werner Korthaase: Daniel Ernst Jablonski: Religion, Wissenschaft und Politik um 1700 , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-447-05793-9 , p. 328
6. ^ Friedhelm Ackva, Johannes van den Berg, Klaus Deppermann: The Pietism in the eighteenth century , Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995, ISBN 3-525-55347-1 , pp. 40-42

predecessor	Office	successor
William Talbot	Bishop of Oxford 1737–1758	Thomas Secker
William Wake	Archbishop of Canterbury 1737–1747	Thomas Herring