predecessor successor death_date title type see term birth_date article_title name church
robert holgate hugh jones 31 october 1563 bishop of llandaff bishop diocese of llandaff 1545 & ndash ; 1563 22 july 1471 anthony kitchin
 anthony kitchin roman catholic/church of england
anthony kitchin

anthony kitchin -lrb- 22 july 1471 -- 31 october 1563 -rrb- , also known as anthony dunstone , was a mid-16th-century abbot of eynsham abbey and bishop of llandaff in both the roman catholic church and the church of england .
kitchin was a monk at westminster abbey , before becoming prior of gloucester hall , oxford .
he was appointed abbot of eynsham in 1530 , but lost the post at his abbey 's dissolution in 1539 .
he was granted an unusually large pension of # 133-6s-8d pa .
six years later , in 1545 , kitchin was made bishop of llandaff .
he is said to have impoverished the diocese by selling off much of its property .
he retained his see under henry viii , edward vi , mary and elizabeth .
alone of all the english bishops , he took the oath of royal supremacy on the accession of the last .
his willingness to follow the opinion of whichever monarch reigned has led many to accuse kitchin of being spineless .
indeed , one historian has written of kitchin that he was a ` timeserver who would doubtless have become a hindu if required , provided he was allowed to hold on to the see of llandaff ' -lrb- eamon duffy , ` fires of faith ' , p. 23 -rrb- .
however , he showed some backbone in opposing elizabeth 's appointment of matthew parker to the see of canterbury -lrb- cf. nag 's head fable -rrb- ; apparently , his acquiescence in religious matters had its limits .
kitchin died at the bishop 's palace in mathern on 31 october 1563 at the age of 92 .
he was one of the last known people born in the reign of edward iv , and he is also one of the few known to have been born before the accession of henry vii and to live into the reign of elizabeth i.
