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- 1488-1569. English Protestant priest whose
- translation of the Bible 1535 was the first
- to be printed in English. His translation of
- the psalms is that retained in the Book of
- Common Prayer. Coverdale, born in Yorkshire,
- became a Catholic priest, but turned to
- Protestantism and in 1528 went to the
- continent to avoid persecution. In 1539 he
- edited the Great Bible which was ordered to
- be placed in churches. After some years in
- Germany, he returned to England in 1548, and
- in 1551 was made bishop of Exeter. During the
- reign of Mary he left the country.
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