Thomas Thirlby


Thomas Thirlby

Bishop of Ely
ChurchChurch of England
ProvinceCanterbury
DioceseEly
In office1554–1559
PredecessorThomas Goodrich
SuccessorRichard Cox
Previous post(s)
Orders
Consecration19 December 1540
by Edmund Bonner
Personal details
Bornc. 1506
Died26 August 1570 (aged c. 64)
Lambeth Palace
BuriedSt Mary's Church, Lambeth
NationalityEnglish
DenominationRoman Catholic
ParentsJohn and Joan Thirleby
Alma materTrinity Hall, Cambridge

Thomas Thirlby (or Thirleby; c. 1506–1570), was the first and only bishop of Westminster (1540–50), and afterwards successively bishop of Norwich (1550–54) and bishop of Ely (1554–59). While he acquiesced in the Henrician schism, with its rejection in principle of the Roman papacy, he remained otherwise loyal to the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church during the English Reformation.