Edmund Gheast (also known as Guest, Geste or Gest; 1514–1577) was a 16th-century cleric of the

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Life

Guest was born at

Northallerton Northallerton ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of Mowbray and at the northern end of the Vale of York. It had a population of 16,832 in the 2011 census, an increa ...

, Yorkshire, the son of Thomas Geste. He was educated at York Grammar School and

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and became a scholar of

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in 1536 (fellow from 1539 to 1554, BA in 1541, MA in 1544, BD in 1551). He was chaplain to Archbishop

Matthew Parker Matthew Parker (6 August 1504 – 17 May 1575) was an English bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder (with a p ...

who made him

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(1559–1564) and Rector of Cliffe, Kent. He became Bishop of Rochester in 1560, holding the office of

''in commendam''. He was then

Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers much of the counties of Wiltshire and Dorset. The see is in the City of Salisbury where the bishop's seat ...

from 1571 to his death in 1577. He was buried in Salisbury Cathedral.Jane Freeman, ‘Guest, Edmund (1514–1577)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 200

accessed 10 January 2010 Guest participated actively in the

Convocation of 1563 The Convocation of 1563 was a significant gathering of English and Welsh clerics that consolidated the Elizabethan religious settlement, and brought the ''Thirty-Nine Articles'' close to their final form (which dates from 1571). It was, more accu ...

that met under Archbishop

to revise the '' Forty-Two Articles''.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01498a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia Anglicanism Convocation passed only 39 of the 42, and Queen Elizabeth reduced the number to 38 by throwing out Article XXIX to avoid offending the Roman Catholic party. In 1571, the XXIXth Article, despite the opposition of Guest, was inserted, to the effect that the wicked do not eat the Body of Christ. ''Anglican Teaching'' by W. G. WILSON, M.A., B.D., Ph.D. and J.H. TEMPLETON. M.A., B.D.. M.LITT.. Ph.D. The ''

Thirty-Nine Articles The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (commonly abbreviated as the Thirty-nine Articles or the XXXIX Articles) are the historically defining statements of doctrines and practices of the Church of England with respect to the controversies of the ...

'' were ratified by the Queen, and the bishops and clergy were required to assent.

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1577 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Fellows of King's College, Cambridge Bishops of Rochester Bishops of Salisbury 16th-century Church of England bishops Archdeacons of Canterbury People from Northallerton 1513 births {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub