Edmund Bishop

Edmund Bishop (born May 17, 1846 in Totnes , † February 17, 1917 in Barnstaple ) was an English liturgical scholar .

Initially an Anglican, Bishop converted to Catholicism at the age of 22 . For health reasons, he was never able to realize his wish to become a Benedictine in Downside Abbey . From 1864 to 1885 he worked in the Education Department of the Privy Council Office, and from 1893 to 1901 as an employee of Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet in London. His works on liturgical history, mostly written in leisure and retirement, appeared widely diversified. The small scriptures were published posthumously. The most important writing was the essay The genius of the Roman rite , which was also translated into German.

Works

• Liturgica historica: papers on the liturgy and religious life of the Western church. Clarendon Press, London 1918, xiv, 506 pp.
• The spirit of the Roman liturgy , in: Liturgische Zeitschrift , 4 (1931/32), pp. 395–416.

literature

• Nigel Abercrombie: The writings of Edmund Bishop, b. 1846; d. 1917: a bibliography . In: The Times Literary Supplement, London 1952
• Nigel Abercrombie: The life and work of Edmund Bishop . Longmans, London 1959
• A. Ward - C. Johnson: Edmund Bishop's "The genius of the Roman rite": its context, import and promotion . In: Ephemerides Liturgicae 110 (1996) 401-441.