9 February 1555 A.D. John Hooper, AKA Johan Hoper, (ca. 1495-1500 – 9 February 1555) was an English churchman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester
9 February 1555 A.D. John Hooper , AKA Johan Hoper , (ca. 1495-1500 – 9 February 1555) was an English churchman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester . A proponent of the English Reformation , he was martyred during the Marian Persecutions . Five days after John Rogers was roasted at the stake, the first martyr under the Anglo-Italian Queen Mary 1, Bishop John Hooper was smoked, roasted and burned at the stake, a Reformed Anglican Churchman. Contents 1 Biography 2 Vestments controversy 3 Works 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links Biography 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...