Matthew Parker

Matthew Parker was an English bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England from 1559 to his death. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder of a distinctive tradition of Anglican theological thought.

6 August 1504

Born on the same birth day (6 August): Barbara Cooney • Bulstrode Whitelocke • Charles Wood (playwright) • Charlie Haden • Emperor Go-Toba • Fakhr al-Din II • Fortunato Baldelli • Virginia Foster Durr • Wallace H. White • William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim