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Joseph Hall

British bishop and writer (1574-1656) · United Kingdom · On the map · Religious Figures · Died at 82

Joseph Hall was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way.

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Country
United Kingdom
Category
Religious Figures
Type
Religious Figure
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1574 to 1656 · aged 82