Matthew Parker
Parker, Matthew (1504–1575), an English church prelate. Parker graduated from Cambridge University in 1525 and was ordained a priest in 1527. He was a supporter of the Reformation and served as dean of Lincoln, 1552–53. In 1559 he was made archbishop of Canterbury by Queen Elizabeth I. Parker steered the Church of England on a middle course between Catholicism and Puritanism. He helped prepare the Thirty-Nine Articles and the Bishops' Bible.