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Ferrar pursued religious reform in his short term as bishop through parliamentary legislation, administration of ecclesiastical property, control over the cathedral chapter, supervision of clergy, enforcing discipline through court, and direct approaches to the congregation through biblical preaching. [12]
Ferrar pursued religious reform in his short term as bishop through parliamentary legislation, administration of ecclesiastical property, control over the cathedral chapter, supervision of clergy, enforcing discipline through court, and direct approaches to the congregation through biblical preaching. [12]
Mar 30, 2017 · On 30th March 1555, Robert Ferrar, Bishop of St David's, was burnt at the stake at Carmarthen. It is not known when Ferrar was born but he came from Midgley, in Halifax, and had found a living at St Oswald's Augustinian priory in Yorkshire by the early 1520s.
Dec 17, 2013 · Ferrar’s quiet family life intersected with his role in the Reformation Church of Edward VI. He was appointed chaplain to Edward Seymour (the Lord Protector) and then Archbishop Cranmer as well as Bishop of St David’s. In this latter role he helped to reform the Welsh church.
After the accession of Mary, Ferrar was imprisoned in Southwark, and, in March 1554, was deprived of his bishopric for heresy and marriage. After some indecision, Ferrar, fortified by Bradford and other Protestant prisoners, refused to recant when examined by bishop Gardiner and other commissioners in February 1555.
His episcopal duties were both enlivened and hindered by a series of clashes with the local gentry and his cathedral clergy, culminating in a notorious lawsuit before the Privy Council, in which he narrowly avoided being deprived of his bishopric.
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Jun 5, 2018 · Bishop Robert Ferrar was martyred in Carmarthen on March 30, 1555, the day before Palm Sunday. He was an educated man, studying at the University of Cambridge and Oxford, where he joined the ...
