John Overall (bishop)

John Overall
Bishop of Norwich
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Diocese of Norwich
Installed	1618
Term ended	1619 (death)
Predecessor	John Jegon
Successor	Samuel Harsnett
Other posts	Dean of St Paul's (1601–1614) Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1614–1618)
Orders
Ordination	1591
Consecration	1614
Personal details
Born	1559 Hadleigh, Suffolk, England
Died	1619 (aged 59–60) Norwich, Norfolk, England
Buried	Norwich Cathedral, Norfolk
Nationality	English
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	George Overall
Profession	Theologian
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge

John Overall (1559–1619) was the 38th bishop of the see of Norwich from 1618 until his death one year later. He had previously served as Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (from 1614), as Dean of St Pauls Cathedral from 1601, as Master of Catharine Hall (under protest) from 1598, and as Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University from 1596. He also served on the Court of High Commission and as a Translator (in the First Westminster Company) of the King James Version of the Bible.

Overall was born in Hadleigh, Suffolk and studied at St John's College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is buried within Norwich Cathedral.

John Overall was born in 1559, in Hadleigh, Suffolk. In Overall's time, Hadleigh was a center for radical Protestantism. He was baptised there on 2 March 1561, the younger son of George Overall, who died that July. The future bishop studied at Hadleigh Grammar School, where he was a fellow student with Bible translator John Bois. John Still, then Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and a parish priest from 1571, took an interest in their education. Owing to his patronage and direction both applied to St John's College, Cambridge, when in 1575, Still became Master of the college. When Still moved to become Master of Trinity, Overall followed him and on 18 April 1578 was admitted as a scholar.

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