biography
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Gilpin, Bernard
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known as the Apostle of the North
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1517–83)
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| biography:
| Clergyman, born in Kentmere Hall, Cumbria, NW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, Louvain, and Paris, and became archdeacon of Durham in 1556. A strong supporter of royal supremacy in the English Church, he defended himself against accusations of heresy, and on Elizabeth I's succession in 1558 was appointed rector of Houghton le Spring. He turned down many offers of promotion, preferring to minister to his parish and to make preaching excursions into the remotest parts of N England, which gave him his byname. |
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