# John Hopton

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The Right Reverend John Hopton Bishop of Norwich Diocese Diocese of Norwich Predecessor Thomas Thirlby Successor John Parkhurst Other post Chaplain to the Lady Mary (c. 1547–c. 1553) Orders Consecration 28 October 1554 by Edmund Bonner Personal details Died December 1558 (1559-01) Buried Norwich Cathedral Denomination Roman Catholic Alma mater University of Bologna, Italy

**John Hopton** (died 1558) was the last Roman Catholic [Bishop of Norwich](/source/Bishop_of_Norwich).[1][2]

He was a member of the [Dominican Order](/source/Dominican_Order) by 1516, in Oxford. He was educated at the [University of Bologna](/source/University_of_Bologna) in Italy, where he took a [doctorate](/source/Doctorate) in theology.[3]

During the reign of [Edward VI](/source/Edward_VI), Hopton was chaplain to the [Lady Mary](/source/Mary_I_of_England), later Queen Mary I, and was summoned before the [privy council](/source/Privy_Council_(United_Kingdom)) in 1549 and ordered to stop celebrating the Catholic Mass.

When Mary acceded to the throne, Hopton was appointed Bishop of Norwich,[3] and was consecrated on 28 October 1554. [John Foxe](/source/John_Foxe), in his *Acts and Monuments* described him, with [Michael Dunning](/source/Michael_Dunning), the "bloody chancellor" of Norwich, as a ruthless persecutor of Protestants, "in such sort, that many of them he perverted, and brought quite from the truth, and some from their wits also". Hopton was mainly responsible for the burning of over thirty Protestants in Norwich during his tenure.[3]

Hopton died in December 1558, and he is buried in Norwich Cathedral.[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["*Will of John Hopton, Bishop of Norwich of Norwich, Norfolk*, PROB 11/42B/705"](https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D947616). *The National Archives*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Ancient Diocese of Norwich"](https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11121a.htm). *New Advent*.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ODNB_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ODNB_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-ODNB_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-ODNB_3-3) Houlbrooke, Ralph (23 September 2004). ["Hopton, John"](https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-13771). *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*.

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