Grindal, Edmund (c. 1519–1583)

English cleric and archbishop of Canterbury (1575–77). He served as a chaplain to Edward VI and during the reign of Mary I went into exile in Germany where he was influenced by Calvinist views. When Elizabeth I came to the throne in 1558, he returned to England and became bishop of London in 1559, archbishop of York in 1570, and finally archbishop of Canterbury in 1575. He antagonized the queen and her court with his Puritan ethic and was removed as archbishop of Canterbury in 1577 after a dispute over ‘prophesying’, meetings of the clergy at which evangelical sermons were preached.