Original sentence: In 1980, More and Fisher were jointly added as martyrs of the reformation to the Church of England's calendar of Saints and Heroes of the Christian Church, to be commemorated every 6 July (the date of More's execution) as "Thomas More, Scholar, and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, Reformation Martyrs, 1535"
Edited sentence: In 1980, despite their opposing the English Reformation that created the Church of England, More and Fisher, ironically, were jointly added as martyrs of the reformation to the Church of England's calendar of Saints and Heroes of the Christian Church, to be commemorated every 6 July (the date of More's execution) as "Thomas More, Scholar, and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, Reformation Martyrs, 1535"