Matthaeus Parker, Archiep. Cantuar. (ca. 16th century.)

By: Unknown Engraver - Unknown Artist

Size: 2.94 H x 1.69 W inches

Source: Portraits of Early Theologians by various old masters from an unknown source.

Item #: 83592

Copper plate engraving. Approx. 7. 5 x 4.5 cm in the plate. NF.Matthew Parker (6 August 1504 – 17 May 1575) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder (with Thomas Cranmer and Richard Hooker) of Anglican theological thought.Parker was one of the primary architects of the Thirty-Nine Articles, the defining statements of Anglican doctrine.