Faldo is said to have been educated at Cambridge University,[1] and to have been a chaplain in the army, so that he held no benefice when the Act of Uniformity 1662 became law.
In 1673 he is described as a nonconforming minister at Barnet, and in 1684 was chosen pastor of the congregation at Plasterers' Hall, Addle Street, Aldermanbury, London.
He died on 7 February 1690, of the stone, and was buried at Bunhill Fields, where there was a Latin inscription upon his tomb.
It asserts that he did much to heal the breach between Presbyterians and Independents, but gives no biographical facts except the observation that ‘such a pastor as Mr. Faldo is forty years a making.’ In 1673 he published ‘Quakerism no Christianity.
In 1696 there was published the seventeenth edition of Jeremiah Dyke's ‘The Worthy Communicant: or a Treatise showing the due Order of Receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper,’ abridged and supplemented by Faldo so as to bring the book ‘within the reach of the poor.’ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Faldo, John".