SARAVIA, ADRIANO. - Calvinist theologian, b. in 1538 at Esda in Artesia, d. at Oxford in 1613. In 1559, because of religious persecutions, he took refuge
in England, where he performed various duties, alternating them, however, with other posts at Antwerp, Ghent, etc.
In 1582 he was appointed minister of the Walloon Church at Leiden and soon became professor of theology at that University. Expelled in 1587, he returned to England and served the Anglican Church.
Because of his episcopal conception of the Church, he occupies a distinct place among Calvinist theologians. On this subject he engaged in controversy with Teodoro Beza (1594), spoke out against the theory of regicide (1593), defended the Heidelberg Catechism (1583), and seems to have collaborated on the
Dutch version of Guy de Brès’s Confession of Faith.