The Right Reverend

Edmund Scambler
Bishop of Norwich
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseDiocese of Norwich
Installed1585
Term ended1594 (death)
PredecessorEdmund Freke
SuccessorWilliam Redman
Other post(s)Bishop of Peterborough (1561–1585)
Personal details
Bornc. 1520
Gressingham, Lancashire
Died(1594-05-07)7 May 1594
NationalityEnglish
DenominationAnglican
Alma materPeterhouse, Cambridge

Edmund Scambler (c. 1520 – 7 May 1594) was an English bishop from Cambridge University. He served as pastor under Queen Mary Tudor.

Life

He was born at Gressingham, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, Queens' College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1542.[1][2][3]

Under Mary I of England he was pastor to a covert Protestant congregation in London.[4] He was a chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker.[5]

He became Bishop of Peterborough in 1561, and was a reviser of the Bishops' Bible.[3][6] He suspended Eusebius Pagit, then vicar of Lamport, in 1574.[7]

In 1585 he became Bishop of Norwich. He was responsible there for the heresy proceedings against Francis Kett.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ "Scambler, Edmund (SCMR541E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "Townships: Gressingham | British History Online".
  3. ^ a b "Scambler, Edmund" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. ^ Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1982), p. 61.
  5. ^ "Parker, Matthew" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  6. ^ "Our Bible & the Ancient MSS: Chap.11: The English Printed Bible".
  7. ^ "Pagit, Eusebius" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  8. ^ Dewey D. Wallace, Jr., From Eschatology to Arian Heresy: The Case of Francis Kett (d. 1589), The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 67, No. 4 (October 1974), pp. 459-473.
Church of England titles Preceded byDavid Poole Bishop of Peterborough 1561–1584 Succeeded byRichard Howland Preceded byEdmund Freke Bishop of Norwich 1585–1594 Succeeded byWilliam Redman
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