Anthony Sparrow

Anthony Sparrow (1612– 19 May 1685), was an English Clergyman. He was bishop of Norwich and bishop of Exeter.Richard J. Ginn and Sean Kelsey, ‘Sparrow, Anthony (1612–1685)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004]

He was educated and, he himself taught at, Queens' College, Cambridge, 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. In 1667 he became bishop of Exeter and in 1676 he was promoted to bishop of Norwich.

In his will he left £100 to the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral.

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