Knox, John

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Knox, John (1514–72) Leader of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland. Ordained a Catholic priest, he later converted to Protestantism and took up the cause of the Reformation. Captured by French soldiers in Scotland, he was imprisoned in France (1547), then lived in exile in England and Switzerland. In 1559 Knox returned to Scotland, where he continued to promote the Protestant cause. In 1560 the Scottish Parliament, under Knox's leadership, made Presbyterianism the state religion. In 1563, he was tried for treason but acquitted.

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