Alexander Baker (Jesuit)
Alexander Baker (1582–1638), was an English Jesuit.
Biography[]
Baker was born in Norfolk in 1582. He entered the Society of Jesus about 1610 and was professed of the four solemn vows in 1627 and visited India twice as a missionary.
Baker died on 24 August 1638 in London, where he had resided for many years. He reconciled the Rev. William Coke, a son of Sir Edward Coke, to the Catholic Church in 1615. Among the State papers is a manuscript by Baker in defence of the doctrine of Baptismal regeneration as held by Catholics, showing its difference from the opinion of Protestants.[1]
References[]
- ^ (Domestic, James I, vol. clxxxix. No.25, under date 1625)
. Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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