Christopher Hampton (bishop)
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The Most Reverend Christopher Hampton |
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| Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland | |
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| See | Armagh |
| Installed | 1613 |
| Term ended | 1625 |
| Predecessor | Henry Ussher |
| Successor | James Ussher |
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| Ordination | 1580 |
| Consecration | 1613 |
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| Born | 1552 Calais, France |
| Died | 3 January 1625 (age 72) Drogheda, Ireland |
| Buried | St Peter's Church, Drogheda, Ireland |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Church of Ireland |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Christopher Hampton (1552–1625) was an Englishman who was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh from 1613 to 1625.
He was born at Calais in 1552, son of John Hampton (of Frethby in Leicestershire, a Merchant of the Staple in Calais, and a citizen of London and member of the Skinner's Company) and his wife Alice. His name is also given as John in the printed Patent Rolls. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1572, M.A. 1575, B.D. 1582 and D.D. 1598. He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1574.
He was ordained as a priest in 1580 and was vicar of Chesterton, Cambridge from 1585 to 1589 and Rector at Calbourne on the Isle of Wight from 1589 to 1612. By 1606, he was chaplain to Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton and also had the opportunity to preach before James I on occasions, when he preached in support of royal supremacy and episcopacy. He became a royal chaplain and continued to attack presbyterianism and defend episcopacy.
On the death of Brutus Babington, Bishop of Derry, Hampton was nominated to the see by king's letter dated 21 December 1611, and was elected. He was not in fact consecrated to the see of Derry, but to that of Armagh, vacant by the death of Henry Ussher, by king's letter dated 16 April 1613, and by patent of 7 May 1613, and was consecrated the next day in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He was placed in the role with the influence of his patrons in order to continue to reinforce royal preferences in civil and ecclesiastical matters, and to impose more discipline on the church in Ireland. A few days after his consecration, on the opening of parliament by the lord deputy, Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, Hampton the new primate preached in the cathedral before the peers. He was appointed king's almoner in 1617 (being the first to hold that office), and a member of the Irish privy council.
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