John Pecham (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Andrew Egan · 1913
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John Pecham was a Franciscan Archbishop of Canterbury known for fearless reform and unswerving principle. Born about 1240 at Patcham in Sussex, he was educated by the monks of Lewes and studied at Paris. He tutored a prince's nephew and entered the Friars Minor, teaching divinity at Oxford and becoming provincial before Rome made him lector of the sacred palace in 1276.
Elected to Canterbury in January 1279 over Edward I's candidate, he held councils at Reading and Lambeth against pluralities and for reverence toward the Eucharist. He visited every part of his province uprooting abuses and forced exempt royal chapels to submit to visitation. He intervened for Almeric de Montfort and warned Llewellyn in vain. He renewed at Oxford the condemnation of errors, some from Averroes and some from Aquinas, later commonly accepted, before his death in 1292.
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| CREATOR | Andrew Egan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |