John Wycliffe
English theologian and dissident in the Roman Catholic Church
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Updated 2026-05-29
Medieval Oxford theologian who pushed the radical idea of putting the Bible into English instead of Latin. Wycliffe's actual role in the translation remains disputed by scholars, but his reputation as a proto-Protestant troublemaker stuck around for centuries.
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John Wycliffe was an English scholastic philosopher, Christian reformer, Catholic priest, and a theology professor at the University of Oxford. Wycliffe is traditionally believed to have advocated for or made a vernacular translation of the Vulgate Bible into Middle English, though more recent scholarship has minimised the extent of his advocacy or involvement for lack of direct contemporary evidence.
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