"[P]erhaps Cranmer's most remarkable achievement as a liturgist, considering its subsequent influence, was the Order for Morning and for Evening Prayer."
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Christian leadersTheologians from EnglandCritics of religionAnglicans from the United KingdomAnglican bishops
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Charles Smyth, The Church and the Nation: Six Studies in the Anglican Tradition (1962), p. 55
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Thomas Cranmer
1489 β 1556
englischer Reformator und Erzbischof von Canterbury
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