James Ussher
1581-1656

Theologian and scholar; archbishop of Amrmagh (1625); defeated attempt to make doctrinal standards of the Irish church conform exactly with those of the English (1634); propounded a scheme of Biblical chronology long inserted in margin of editions of the Authorized Version, according to which the creation took place 4004 B.C.  

 

 

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