Editing Edward Foxe (section)

==Clerical career==
Foxe served as the king's [[almoner]] c. 1532 – 1537, and as [[prolocutor]] of [[Convocations of Canterbury and York|convocation]] in April 1533 when it decided against the validity of Henry's marriage with Catherine. In 1534 he published his treatise ''De vera differentia regiae potestatis et ecclesiae,'' defending the [[Royal Supremacy]] by use of the documents collated in the ''[[Collectanea satis copiosa]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Haigh|first1=Christopher|title=English reformations : religion, politics, and society under the Tudors|date=1993|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0198221622|page=122|edition=Reprinted.}}</ref> Various ecclesiastical preferments were now granted him, including the [[List of Archdeacons of Leicester|archdeaconry of Leicester]] (1531–1535), the [[Archdeacon of Dorset|archdeaconry of Dorset]] (1533–1535), the [[Dean of Salisbury|deanery of Salisbury]] (1533) and the bishopric of [[Hereford]] (1535). He was nominated to the See of Hereford on 20 August 1535, [[canonical election|elected]] by the [[Hereford Cathedral|college of Hereford]] on 25 August, [[confirmation of bishops|confirmed]] on 15 September, and ordained a [[bishop]] on 26 September 1535; he received the [[temporalities]] on 7 September and the [[spiritualities]] on 14 October 1535.<ref>{{FEA|period=1300–1541|volume=2|pages=1–3|editor-first=Joyce M.|editor-last=Horn|date=1962}}</ref>

In 1535–36 he was sent to [[Germany]] to discuss the basis of a political and theological understanding with the [[Lutheran]] princes and divines, and had several interviews with [[Martin Luther]], who could not be persuaded of the justice of Henry VIII's divorce.<ref name=BritannicaCite/> Henry was unwilling to endorse the [[Augsburg Confession]] and, in 1536, the Wittenberg articles were drafted by Foxe and Lutheran clergymen as a compromise. The articles met strong opposition within convocation in June of the same year, leading Henry to personally intervene to bring about an agreement. This led to the drafting and passing of the [[Ten Articles]] by convocation.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Haigh|first1=Christopher|title=English reformations : religion, politics, and society under the Tudors|date=1993|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0198221622|pages=126–28|edition=Reprinted.}}</ref> In 1536, [[Martin Bucer]] dedicated his ''Commentaries on the Gospels'' to Foxe.