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Edmund Grindal (c. 1519 – 6 July 1583) was Bishop of London, Archbishop of York, and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Elizabeth I. Though born far from the centres of political and religious power, he had risen rapidly in the church during the reign of Edward VI, culminating in his nomination as Bishop of London.
Edmund Grindal was an English archbishop of Canterbury whose Puritan sympathies brought him into serious conflict with Queen Elizabeth I. Educated at Magdalene and Christ’s colleges, Cambridge, he became a royal chaplain and prebendary of Westminster in 1551 and, during the reign of Mary I, went to.
Remarkably, the small West Cumbrian village of St. Bees produced two of the Archbishops of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; Archbishop Edmund Grindal of Canterbury and Archbishop Edwin Sandys of York. This article describes the life of Grindal and the founding of St. Bees School.
Ecclesiastico (Hensingham, Cumberland, 1519 circa - Londra 1583), uno dei promotori della riforma inglese e uno dei primi capi della Chiesa anglicana; cappellano di Edoardo VI, dovette abbandonare l' Inghilterra durante il regno di Maria la Cattolica; tornato in patria (1559) sotto Elisabetta, fu vescovo di Londra, poi (1575) di Canterbury.
The Church of England under Elizabeth was broadly Reformed in nature: Elizabeth's first Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker, had been the executor of Martin Bucer's will, and his replacement Edmund Grindal had carried the coffin at Bucer's funeral.
In 1570, Grindal was promoted to become Archbishop of York. Following the death of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1575, Grindal was translated to succeed him the following year. As Archbishop of Canterbury, Grindal was now the leading pastoral figure in the Church of England.
