Thomas Thirlby

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Thomas Thirlby (* around 1500; † 1570 in Lambeth Palace , London ) was an English bishop and diplomat . He was appointed Bishop of Westminster under Henry VIII - a newly created office within the Church of England with the Cathedral of Westminster Abbey , which was dissolved from Rome , which was no longer occupied after Thirlby. Under Maria I he supported their policy of recatholization and was therefore deposed by Elisabeth I.

Life

From 1550 to 1554 Thirlby was Bishop of Norwich and then Bishop of Ely .

On the advice of Cardinal Reginald Pole , Philip II of Spain and Mary I of England sent an embassy to the Pope in Rome in February 1555. The three royal ambassadors, one of whom was Thomas Thirlby, were assigned to inform the Pope of the tense situation in the country.

Thomas Thirlby was deposed as Bishop of Ely on July 5, 1559 by the new Queen Elizabeth I of England . He was one of eleven confessor-bishops imprisoned by the queen.

literature

  • Timothy Francis Shirley: Thomas Thirlby. Tudor Bishop . Church Historical Society, 1964
  • CS Knighton: Thirlby, Thomas (c.1500-1570). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004-09, accessed June 4, 2007.

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predecessor Office successor
- Bishop of Westminster
1540–1550
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William Rugg Bishop of Norwich
1550–1554
John Hopton
Thomas Goodrich Bishop of Ely
1554–1559
Richard Cox