Anthony Sparrow (1612–1685) was an English

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priest. He was Bishop of Norwich and

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Career

Born in 1612, Sparrow was educated and became a fellow at

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, and was ordained a priest in February 1635. He was an adherent to the Laudianism movement. In April 1644 under the parliamentarian purge of the university, he was ejected for non-residence by Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester. In 1647, he was ejected from rectory of Hawkedon for using the outlawed Book of Common Prayer. Following the Restoration, he was reinstated in 1660; and held the post of Archdeacon of Sudbury from then until 1667. In 1667, he became Bishop of Exeter and in 1676 he was promoted to bishop of Norwich. He died on 19 May 1685. In his will, he left £100 to the rebuilding of

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Marriage and progeny

He married and left at his death several daughters as his co-heiresses, one of whom was Joan Sparrow (d. 1703), wife of Edward Drew (d. 1714) of

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, Devon, a Canon of Exeter Cathedral. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.307, pedigree of Drew

Bibliography

* ''A Sermon Concerning Confession of Sins, and the Power of Absolution'' (1637) * ''A Rationale on the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England'' (1655) * "A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, and Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with other Publik Records of The Church of England, Chiefly in the Times of K. Edward. VIth. Q. Elizabeth. and K. James." ...Published to Vindicate The Church of England and to promote Uniformity and peace in the same. (1661; London, Printed by R. Norton for Timothy Garthwait at the Little North-doore of St. Paul's Church 1661)

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Anthony Sparrow's major works
at Project Canterbury {{DEFAULTSORT:Sparrow, Anthony 1612 births 1685 deaths Archdeacons of Sudbury Bishops of Exeter Bishops of Norwich 17th-century Church of England bishops Presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge 17th-century Anglican theologians Anglican liturgists