Alexander Baker (1582–1638), was an English

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Biography

Baker was born in

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

in 1582. He entered the Society of Jesus about 1610 and was professed of the

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in 1627 and visited India twice as a missionary. Baker died on 24 August 1638 in

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, where he had resided for many years. He reconciled the Rev. William Coke, a son of Sir

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, to the

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in 1615. Among the

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is a manuscript by Baker in defence of the doctrine of

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as held by Catholics, showing its difference from the opinion of Protestants.(Domestic, James I, vol. clxxxix. No.25, under date 1625)

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1582 births 1638 deaths 17th-century English Jesuits People from Norfolk {{England-RC-clergy-stub