Lat‧i‧mer, Bishop Hugh /ˈlætəməʳ, ˈlætɪməʳ, hjuː/
(1485–1555) an English bishop (=a Christian priest of high rank) who was one of the leaders of the reformation in England (=the time when many Christians left the Catholic religion and started the Protestant religion). When Mary I, who was a Catholic, became queen of England, she ordered him to be officially killed by being burned.

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