Cran ‧ mer, Thomas /ˈkrænməʳ/ BrE AmE
(1489–1556) an English priest who was ↑ Archbishop of Canterbury , and who was one of the leaders of the ↑ reformation (=the time when many Christians in Europe left the Catholic religion and started the Protestant religion) in England. When the Catholic Mary I became Queen of England, she ordered Cranmer to be killed by being burned.