Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London (born c. 1500)

Edmund Bonner

Sixteenth-century English Catholic bishop

Edmund Bonner was Bishop of London from 1539 to 1549 and again from 1553 to 1559. Initially an instrumental figure in the schism of Henry VIII from Rome, he was antagonised by the Protestant reforms introduced by the Duke of Somerset and reconciled himself to Catholicism. He…