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John Henry Cardinal Newman

Blessed
John Henry Newman
Cong. Orat.
Cardinal Deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro
John Henry Newman by Sir John Everett Millais
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
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)
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Sainthood
Feast day
  • 9 October (Roman Catholic Church),
  • 11 August (Church of England)
Venerated in
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
John Henry Newman circa 1863.jpg
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

John Henry Newman, Cong. Orat., (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an Anglican priest, poet and theologian and later a Catholic cardinal, who was an important and controversial 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.


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