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Saint John Fisher (c. 19 October 1469 – 22 June 1535) was an English Catholic Cardinal-Priest Bishop and theologian. He was a man of learning associated with the intellectuals and political leaders of his day and eventually became Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.Fisher was executed by order of Henry VIII during the English Reformation for refusing to accept the king as Supreme Head of the Church of England and for upholding the Catholic Church’s doctrine of papal primacy.