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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 killed 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 Arundell's...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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Italian cat inherits €10m fortune - — Four-year-old stray becomes world's richest feline after death of 94-year-old mistress — Tommaso, a four-year-old, one-time stray from Rome, is thought to have become the world's richest cat. — Since the death of his 94-year-old mistress last month … |
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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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