John Henry Newman

Blessed John Henry Newman Cong. Orat.
Cardinal Deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro
Portrait of Newman by John Everett Millais, 1881
Appointed	12 May 1879
Term ended	11 August 1890
Predecessor	Tommaso Martinelli
Successor	Francis Aidan Gasquet
Other posts	Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford; Provost of the Birmingham Oratory
Orders
Ordination	13 June 1824 (deacon; Church of England) 29 May 1825 (priest; Church of England) 30 May 1847 (priest; Catholic Church)
Created Cardinal	12 May 1879 by Pope Leo XIII
Rank	Cardinal deacon
Personal details
Born	(1801-02-21)21 February 1801 London, England, United Kingdom
Died	11 August 1890(1890-08-11) (aged 89) Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Buried	Oratory House, Rednal, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Denomination	Church of England (1801–1845); Roman Catholic (1845–1890)
Parents	John Newman and Jemina Fourdrinier
Alma mater	Trinity College, Oxford
Motto	Cor ad Cor Loquitur (Heart speaks unto Heart)
Coat of arms
Sainthood
Feast day	9 October (Roman Catholic Church), 11 August (Church of England)
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church Church of England
Beatified	19 September 2010 Cofton Park, Birmingham, England by Pope Benedict XVI
Attributes	Cardinal's attire
Patronage	Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
Shrines	Birmingham Oratory, Edgbaston, England

John Henry Newman
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Aristotelianism Empiricism Personalism Oxford Movement
Main interests	Faith and rationality Religious epistemology Historical theology Christian apologetics Philosophy of education Liberal education
Notable ideas	The development of doctrine The illative sense
Influences Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri, St. Thomas More, Cicero, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen, Athanasius, Basil of Caesarea, Hume, Edmund Burke, Locke, Butler, Richard Whately
Influenced Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Bernard Lonergan, Benedict XVI, Francis, Alasdair MacIntyre, Jaroslav Pelikan, Linda Zagzebski, G. K. Chesterton, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Hilaire Belloc, Oscar Wilde, Ronald Knox, James Joyce

John Henry Newman, Cong. Orat., (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was a Catholic cardinal and theologian who was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s.

Originally an evangelical Oxford University academic and priest in the Church of England, Newman then became drawn to the high-church tradition of Anglicanism. He became known as a leader of, and an able polemicist for, the Oxford Movement, an influential and controversial grouping of Anglicans who wished to return to the Church of England many Catholic beliefs and liturgical rituals from before the English Reformation. In this the movement had some success. However, in 1845 Newman, joined by some but not all of his followers, left the Church of England and his teaching post at Oxford University and was received into the Catholic Church. He was quickly ordained as a priest and continued as an influential religious leader, based in Birmingham. In 1879, he was created a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in recognition of his services to the cause of the Catholic Church in England. He was instrumental in the founding of the Catholic University of Ireland, which evolved into University College Dublin, today the largest university in Ireland.

Newman's beatification was officially proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 September 2010 during his visit to the United Kingdom. His canonisation is dependent on the documentation of additional miracles attributed to his intercession.