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Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1533 to 1555 and a leader of the English Reformation. He annulled Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, and under Edward VI he wrote the Book of Common Prayer and gave the Church of England a Protestant doctrine. Under the Catholic Mary I he was tried for heresy and burnt at Oxford in 1556.
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