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Matthew Parker was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 to his death on the 17th of May 1575. He was a primary architect of the Thirty-nine Articles, helped produce the Bishops' Bible, had the principal share in the Book of Common Prayer, and assembled the Parker collection of early English manuscripts at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which is considered one of the world's most important holdings of ancient manuscripts.
Matthew Parker was born on the 6th of August 1504 in St Saviour's parish, Norwich. He was the eldest surviving child of William Parker, a wealthy worsted weaver, and Alice Monins.
The Parker collection is a set of early English manuscripts that Matthew Parker gathered largely from former monastic libraries and left to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. It includes the book of St Augustine Gospels and Version A of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The Parker Library on the Web project has made digital images of all manuscripts in the collection available online.
Parker was consecrated in 1559 using the Edwardine Ordinal, which Mary Tudor had repealed. In 1896 a papal commission condemned Anglican orders as "absolutely null and utterly void," arguing the rite was defective in form and matter. The Church of England archbishops rebutted this in 1897 in a document called Saepius Officio, defending the sufficiency of the Anglican Ordinal's form and intention.
Parker served as Anne Boleyn's chaplain and became a popular preacher through her influence. Shortly before her arrest in 1536 she charged her daughter Elizabeth to his spiritual care, a responsibility Parker honoured for the rest of his life.
The Thirty-nine Articles are the defining statements of Anglican doctrine. It was under Parker's presidency as Archbishop of Canterbury that the Articles were finally reviewed and subscribed by the clergy in 1562.