biography
| name: |
Grosseteste, Robert
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pronunciation:
[grohstest]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1175–1253)
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| biography:
| Scholar, bishop, and Church reformer, born in Stradbroke, Suffolk, E England, UK. He studied at Oxford and Paris, taught theology at Oxford, then became Bishop of Lincoln in 1235. He undertook the reformation of abuses in the Church, which brought him into conflict both locally and with the papacy. |
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