About John Kynton
Lived 1455 – 1536 (aged 80–81). John Kynton was an English friar and theologian.
John Kynton (died 1536) was an English 16th-century Franciscan friar, divinity professor, and a vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford.
In 1500 Kynton graduated as a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford, where he was a Minorite or Friar Minor. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University as part of a committee several times annually during 1503–1513.
Kynton was a senior theologian at Oxford and preached the University sermon on Easter Sunday in 1515.
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English Franciscan friar and theologian
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