John Longland

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title: "John Longland" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["deans-of-salisbury", "bishops-of-lincoln", "16th-century-english-bishops", "chancellors-of-the-university-of-oxford", "1473-births", "1547-deaths", "canons-of-windsor", "people-from-oxfordshire-(before-1974)"] description: "English bishop" topic_path: "society/education" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Longland" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary English bishop ::

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Field	Value
type	Bishop
honorific_prefix	The Right Reverend
name	John Longland
title	Bishop of Lincoln
church	Roman Catholic/Church of England
diocese	Lincoln
appointed	20 March 1521
term	1521-1547
quashed
predecessor	William Atwater
successor	Henry Holbeach
consecration	5 May 1521
consecrated_by	William Warham
birth_date	1473
birth_place	Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
death_date	7 May 1547
death_place	Wooburn, Buckinghamshire, England
buried	Eton College
nationality	English
parents	Thomas Longland & Isabel Staveley
spouse
profession
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Career

He was made a Demy at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1491 and became a Fellow. He was King Henry VIII's confessor{{cite book |title=Political Thought and the Tudor Commonwealth |last1=Fideler |first1=P.A. |last2=Mayer|first2= T.F. |year=1992 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415-06672-7 |pages=98 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=boNIDnBuiQ4C&dq=Longland+pilgrimage&pg=PA98}} and was said to have been one of those who first persuaded the King that he should annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Bishop_Longland_heraldry_-geograph.org.uk-_904956.jpg" caption="Arms of Bishop John Longland, Lincoln Cathedral"] ::

In 1519 he was appointed Canon of the sixth stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1520. He was also Lord Almoner from c.1521. He was consecrated a bishop on 5 May 1521, by William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Nicholas West, Bishop of Ely; and John Vesey, Bishop of Exeter.

During the English Reformation, he was among the conservative bishops, recognizing Transubstantiation. His conservatism is attested to by his complaint in 1536 to Thomas Cromwell about Protestant preachers in his diocese. Longland is referred to by John Foxe, the controversial Protestant martyrologist, as "a fierce and cruel vexer of the faithful, poor servants of Christ." Foxe claimed that Longland violently constrained men, women, and maidens to testify against one another, and that he delivered some over to the secular arm to be burned.

References

References

1. [[Spanish Chronicle]], p. 5.
2. "Athenæ Oxonienses - an Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops ..., Volume 1".
3. [[Arthur Philip Perceval. Perceval, Arthur Philip]]. ''An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession: With an Appendix, on the English Orders.'' second edition (London: Rivington, 1841) [https://archive.org/details/anapologyfordoc00socigoog/page/n204 p. 188].
4. [[Eamon Duffy]], ''[[The Stripping of the Altars]]'' ([[Yale University Press]], 2005), p. 388.

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