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John Hooper, Johan Hoper, (ca. 1495-1500 – 9 February 1555) was an English churchman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester. A Protestant Reformer, he was martyred during the Marian Persecutions.
Little is certain about Hooper's early life. Hooper is thought to have been born in Somerset to a wealthy family, but he may have been born and raised in Devon or Oxfordshire. He earned his BA at Oxford in 1519. He is said to have then become a Cistercian monk at Gloucester (which is problematic as there were no Cistercian houses there and Gloucester Abbey was Benedictine), but in 1538 a John Hooper appears among the names of the Black Friars at Gloucester and also among the White Friars at Bristol who surrendered their houses to the king. A John Hooper was likewise canon of Wormesley Priory in Herefordshire; but identification of any of these with the future bishop is doubtful. Rather, he appears to have been in 1538 rector of Liddington, Wiltshire, a benefice in Sir Thomas...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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Vatican: female ordination a crime - — Revised Catholic rules put female ordination in same category of crime under church law as clerical sex abuse of minors — The Vatican today made the “attempted ordination” of women one of the gravest crimes under church law, putting it in the same category … |
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Priests' secret mistresses write to pope over celibacy - — Forty women send unprecedented letter to pontiff saying priests need to ‘experience feelings, love and be loved’ — Dozens of Italian women who have had relationships with Roman Catholic priests or lay monks have endorsed an open letter … |
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Pope 'did not cover up abuse claims' - — Benedict XVI's spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, suggests ‘tenacious’ plot to implicate pontiff in cover-up — The pope's spokesman has launched a vigorous counter-attack against a report linking Benedict XVI to a sex abuse cover-up while he was archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1981. |
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Vatican hit by gay sex scandal - — Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting — The Vatican was today rocked by a sex scandal reaching into Pope Benedict's household after a chorister was sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting. |
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Berlusconi: 'I am inferior to no one' - — As Silvio Berlusconi yesterday tried to shore up his position by declaring himself irreplaceable as Italy's head of government, a court in Milan was told it had been “amply demonstrated” that he was guilty of bribery. |
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