Thomas de Cantelupe, St (c. 1218–1282)

English saint and bishop. He was appointed lord chancellor in 1265 and was consecrated bishop of Hereford in 1275. At the Council of Reading in 1279, he became involved in a dispute with Archbishop Peckham, who excommunicated him in 1281. Cantelupe appealed to Rome and on his way died at Orvieto, Italy. He was buried in his own cathedral, and was popularly regarded as a saint, owing to the miracles that were worked at his tomb. He was canonized as St Thomas of Hereford in 1320.

He studied at Oxford, Paris, and Orléans universities, and became chancellor of Oxford University (1262–63), and lectured in theology at Paris and at Oxford.