But perhaps the most influential Archbishop of Canterbury was Thomas Cranmer, a loyal supporter of Henry VIII’s break from ...

Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, Edward VI and, fatally, Mary I, may have lived at a time of extreme political volatility but, according to religious historian Owen Chadwick, ...

It was Cranmer, the author of Anglicanism’s Book of Common Prayer, who established much of the doctrinal and liturgical foundations that still echo in the Church of England.