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Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer, detail of an oil painting by Gerlach Flicke, 1545; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
During his 1530 embassy to Rome, Thomas Cranmer was received by the pope with marked courtesy and was appointed as the grand penitentiary of England.1