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Latimer, Bishop Hugh
     
Latimer, Bishop Hugh
(1485-1555) an English bishop (=a Christian priest of high rank) who was one of the leaders of the Reformation in England (=the time when many Christians left the Catholic religion and started the Protestant religion). When Mary I, who was a Catholic, became queen of England, she ordered him to be officially killed by being burned.
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