Lancelot Andrewes (1555 – 25 September 1626) was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.

2025年1月1日 · Lancelot Andrewes (born 1555, London, Eng.—died Sept. 26, 1626, London) was a theologian and court preacher who sought to defend and advance Anglican doctrines during a period of great strife in the English church.

Lancelot Andrewes was designated by the king as the chief of the Westminster Translators and director of the First Company. The First Westminster Company had responsibility for translating the Old Testament from Genesis through 2 Kings.

2014年6月30日 · Nicknamed stella predicantium (“star of preachers”) by Thomas Fuller, Andrewes has been a source of fascination and reverence for Catholic-leaning Anglicans from Archbishop William Laud in the immediate wake of Andrewes’s death to T.S. Eliot in …

2021年3月31日 · Andrewes would die in 1626, during the first year of Charles I’s reign and just in time to avoid a period of particularly intense internecine religious conflict. The division between Calvinists and Arminians mirrored cultural and political distinctions which would manifest in the coming Civil War.

‘Lancelot Andrewes’ ( Times Literary Supplement , 23 September 1926) The Right Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Bishop of Winchester, died on September 25, 1626.

2018年5月8日 · Anglican bishop of Winchester, prominent prelate, preacher, and apologist for the Church of England as reformed yet still Catholic, equally opposed to the extremes of Romanism and Puritanism; b. London, 1555; d. Winchester, 1626. He was the son of a master mariner.

Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), Bishop of Winchester, was on the committee of scholars that produced the King James Translation of the Bible, and probably contributed more to that work than any other single person.

Biography of Lancelot Andrewes, early seventeenth century churchman and religious writer. His life, works, essays, and resources.

An Exact Narration of the Life and Death of the Late reverend and learned Prelate, and painfull Divine Lancelot Andrewes, Late Bishop of Winchester. Which may serve as a pattern of Piety and Charity to All Godly Disposed Christians.