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Richard Sampson
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Bishop of Chichester and later of Coventry and Lichfield. Died in Eccleshall, Staffordshire, England, 1554. He gained Wolsey's favor, held many preferments, and became one of the chief agents in the divorce proceedings of Henry VIII. In 1536 he became schismatical. Bishop of Chichester, and was transferred later to Coventry and Lichfield by royal authority without papal confirmation. It is said that he afterwards recanted his denial of papal supremacy.
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Entry for 'Richard Sampson'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/r/richard-sampson.html. 1910.
Entry for 'Richard Sampson'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/r/richard-sampson.html. 1910.
