Robert Persons

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Robert Persons was a prominent 16th-century English Jesuit priest and controversialist known for his leading role in the Catholic mission to Protestant England and his influential religious writings.

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instanceOf Catholic controversialist
Jesuit priest
human
affiliation Roman Catholic Church in England NERFINISHED
alsoKnownAs Father Persons NERFINISHED
Robert Parsons NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
dateOfBirth 1546
dateOfDeath 1610
educatedAt Balliol College, Oxford NERFINISHED
familyName Persons NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork religious controversy
theology
genre polemical literature
religious literature
givenName Robert
influenced English Catholic recusant community
influencedBy Counter-Reformation theology NERFINISHED
languageOfWorkOrName English
Latin
memberOf Society of Jesus NERFINISHED
movement English Counter-Reformation NERFINISHED
notableFor controversial writings against Elizabethan religious policy
defence of Catholic loyalty to the crown under persecution
leading role in the Catholic mission to Protestant England
notableWork A Brief Discours contayning certayne Reasons why Catholiques refuse to goe to Church NERFINISHED
A Christian Directory NERFINISHED
A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England NERFINISHED
A Treatise of Three Conversions of England NERFINISHED
occupation priest
theologian
writer
opponent Elizabeth I of England NERFINISHED
English recusancy laws
participantIn English Counter-Reformation polemics
English mission of 1580–1581 NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Kingdom of England NERFINISHED
Somerset NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Papal States NERFINISHED
Rome
positionHeld Rector of the English College, Rome
Rector of the English College, Seville
Rector of the English College, Valladolid NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church

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