TUNSTALL, CUTHBERT. - Theologian and bishop, b. at Hackforth c. 1474, d. in London on 18 Nov. 1559. Having graduated at Oxford, he was appointed bishop of London by Henry VIII in 1522, then transferred to Durham (1530).

He did not love the Papacy and stood with Henry VIII in his religious struggles. Under Edward VI he was deposed from his bishopric (3 Oct. 1552); restored to his see under Queen Mary in 1553, he published in Paris in 1553 the treatise De veritate corporis et sanguinis D. N. J. C. The work is written against the Tigurines (the signatories of the anti-Eucharistic Consensus Tigurinus), especially against Oecolampadius (v.), and reflects the author's vast humanistic and theological culture: the Fathers are extensively cited there from editions that T. possessed in his rich library, and the treatment is conducted with clarity and order, and therefore surpasses the analogous works of St. John Fisher (v.) and of Gardiner (v.). He also wrote the Contra impios blasphematores Dei praedestinationis (Antwerp 1555). Deposed a second time under Queen Elizabeth in Oct. 1559, he died a few weeks later.

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BIBL.: Hutter, II, coll. 1463-64; J. Mercier, s. v. in DThC, XV, col. 1296; P. Polman, L'élément histoire, dans la contre. du XVIe siècle, Gembloux 1932, pp. 445-46 and passim; P. Janelle, L'Angleterre catholique à la veille du schisme, Paris 1935, pp. 13, 141, 144, 215, 320.

Antonio Pislanti

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