| LC control no. | n 50004217 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535 |
| Variant(s) | Fisher, John, 1469-1535 Fisher, John, Saint, Bp. of Rochester, 1469-1535 Fyscher, Joannes, Bishop of Rochester, 1469-1535 Fysher, John, Bishop of Rochester, 1469-1535 Ioannes, Episcopus Roffensis, 1469-1535 Ioannes, Roffensis, Saint, 1469-1535 Roffen., Io. (Ioannes Roffensis), Saint, 1469-1535 Roffensis, Ioannes, Saint, 1469-1535 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000455703512 Q317149 |
| Associated place | Rochester (Kent, England) |
| Birth date | 1469-10 |
| Death date | 1535-06-22 |
| Place of birth | Beverley (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Affiliation | Catholic Church. Diocese of Rochester (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Bishops Cardinals Humanists Theologians |
| Found in | The English works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (born, 1459; died, June 22, 1535), 1876: title page (John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester). This treatyse concernynge the fruytfull sayinges of Dauyd the kynge and prophete in the seuen penytencyall psalmes, 1555: title page (John Fysher, Byshop of Rochester) Antiqua et insignis epistola Nicolai Pape I., 1536: title page ([in list of other items included in this compilation:] Defensio Ioannis Episcopi Roffen[sis]); signature X4a, caption (Defensio ... Joannis Fyscheri Episcopi Roffensis ...) Io. Roffen. episcopi De ueritate corporis & sanguinis Christi in eucharistia, 1527. English Wikipedia, viewed March 2, 2024 (John Fisher; probably born October 19, 1469 (based on his baptismal date), in Beverley, Yorkshire; executed on June 22, 1535 in London; Catholic bishop, cardinal, and theologian; also an academic; eventually served as chancellor of the University of Cambridge; executed on Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII during the English Reformation for refusing to accept Henry as the supreme head of the Church of England and for upholding the Catholic Church's doctrine of papal supremacy; named a cardinal shortly before his death; honored as a martyr; beatified by Pope Leo XIII on December 29, 1886; canonized by Pope Pius XI on May 19, 1935) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fisher> |
| Associated language | lat eng |
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