Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we are continuing our study of three British martyrs.

Last time it was Dr. Taylor, this time it is Bishop Hooper.

John Hooper was born in 1495 in Somerset, England.

He went on to study at the University of Cambridge

and he received his bachelor's degree, then we're not sure

what quite happened to him.

He probably came under the influence of the Reformation in Germany, and for his own sake stayed off the radar.

We know he shows up at Oxford and in 1539, and this is after Henry signs the act of supremacy, which was signed into effect in 1534,

thus expelling Catholicism from Britain and establishing the Church of England or Anglicanism.

But even then in those early years of Henry VIII, Henry was not entirely friendly with

the Reformers on the continent.

And of course Bishop Cooper was very friendly with the reformers on the continent.

And he found himself in difficult moments with the king. So he

leaves England and he heads to France and there he remained with the Huguenots and

studied alongside of them.

We also know that he made his way to Switzerland,

and there he befriended Heinrich or Henry Bollinger.

Bollinger was the successor of Zwingley there in Zurich and was very much an influence on Bishop Hooper.

Well when Edward the 6th ascended to the throne, Hooper left Switzerland and returned to his beloved England.

He immediately went after those bishops that were not thoroughly committed to the Reformation

and he chased them out of their pulpit.

He himself was named Bishop of Gloucester,

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