Cuthbert Tunstall

Cuthbert Tunstall (* 1474 Hackforth in Yorkshire, † November 18, 1559 in Lambeth Palace ) was an English Bishop of Durham.

Life

Tunstall studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, theology and philosophy. 1499 he went to Padua to continue his studies there. In 1505 he returns after a visit to Rome back to England and entered the service of the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Warham. In 1522 he became Bishop of London. King Henry VIII, who employed him as a diplomat, appointed him in 1530 to the Bishop of Durham, and put him in his will as a member of the regency council a. Tunstall acquiesced in the king's break with Rome, was, however, endeavor as far as possible to maintain a correspondence between the English state church and Catholicism. This policy cost him under Edward VI. the position in the government. In 1551 he was imprisoned. A year later the episcopal dignity was revoked. 1553 Mary I sat him back to his office and helped him to deal with the question of the Protestant bishops. Tunstall went there before with commendable restraint. After the accession of Elizabeth I Tudor, however, made ​​him his rigid rejection of religious innovations with the Queen in Fall from Grace. He refused to swear the oath of supremacy and refused to consecrate Matthew Parker as Archbishop of Canterbury. Tunstall was relieved of his duties for the second time and placed in the Lambeth Palace under house arrest, where he already died a few weeks later.