John Hooper

John Hooper, Johan Hoper, (ca. 1495-1500 – 9 February 1555) was an English churchman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester. A proponent of taking the English Reformation to further extremes, he was martyred during the Marian Persecutions.

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