Hugh Latimer (c. 1485 – 16 October 1555) was an English Church of England bishop, theologian, and Protestant Reformer. He was known for his fiery sermons, which criticized corruption in the Catholic Church and advocated for the Protestant Reformation. Latimer served as Bishop of Worcester from 1535 to 1539. During the reign of Edward VI, he was made Bishop of London in 1547, but was deprived of his see on 13 October 1553, because of his opposition to the Catholic marriage of Queen Mary to Philip of Spain. He was arrested during a crackdown on Protestants in 1554 and eventually burned at the stake with Nicholas Ridley at Oxford in 1555, during the Marian persecution.