Henry Edward Manning

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Henry Edward Manning

Henry Edward Manning (born July 15, 1808 in Totteridge , Hertfordshire , † January 14, 1892 in London ) was an English Catholic theologian and cardinal . He was Archbishop of Westminster from 1865 until his death .

life and work

Manning was born the son of influential MP and entrepreneur William Manning in Totteridge, a northern suburb of London, and was raised in the Anglican faith . He graduated from Oxford University and initially wanted to pursue a political career following the example of his father, but then decided to become an Anglican clergyman. After his ordination, Manning got a pastor's position and married in 1833, but his wife Caroline died after a few years. Manning was a member of the High Church in Oxford and was influenced by the theology of John Henry Newman , with whom he later repeatedly fought out conflicts. Because of his skills, he was considered a promising candidate for a career in the Anglican hierarchy from an early age, but he increasingly turned to Catholicism .

When the objective effectiveness of the sacraments was increasingly questioned in the Church of England in 1850 , Manning decided to convert and was admitted to the Catholic Church in 1851, in the same year he was ordained a priest . In 1865 he became Archbishop of Westminster. He received his episcopal ordination on June 8, 1865 in the Church of Saint Mary in London, the Bishop of Birmingham William Bernard Ullathorne ; Co- consecrators were William Turner , Bishop of Salford , and Thomas Joseph Brown , Bishop of Newport and Menevia . He was a participant in the First Vatican Council from 1870 to 1871.

In March 1875 he was a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Gregorio Magno al Celio in the College of Cardinals received. He took part in the conclave of 1878 , in which Pope Leo XIII. was chosen, with whom he had a close friendship. Manning was an outspoken ultramontanist and a staunch advocate of the dogma of papal infallibility . In England he initiated the construction of Westminster Cathedral and initiated the expansion of the Catholic education system. He also campaigned for the implementation of Catholic social teaching . In 1889, through his mediation, the great strike of the London dock workers was ended. He was known to the people under the name Poor men's Cardinal , the “cardinal of the poor people”. He was especially respected among the poor Catholic immigrants from Ireland . Besides the Westminster Cathedral, he had several other schools, monasteries and churches built. "His social activity for the dignity of work and the worker, against the housing shortage in cities and child labor in the factories, against alcoholism and moral pollution" had the greatest open success "( Matthias Laros : In: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche )

Fonts

  • Reason and revelation, or: the work of the Holy Spirit on earth . Georg Josef Manz, Regensburg 1867 (284 p., Full text in the Google book search [accessed on 22 August 2016] English: The Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost . London 1865. Translated by Dr. P.).

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Alfons Bellesheim : Henry Edward Manning, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster (1808-1892) . Kirchheim, Mainz 1892.
  • Edmund Sheridan Purcell: Life of Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminister . Macmillan, London 1895
    • Vol. 1: Manning as an Anglican .
    • Vol. 2: Manning as a Catholic .
  • Lytton Strachey : Cardinal Manning . In: Ders .: Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon (= The collected works of Lytton Strachey, Vol. 2). Chatto & Windus, London 1948 (first edition 1918).
  • Adrian Lüchinger: Papal infallibility with Henry Edward Manning and John Henry Newman (= ecumenical supplements to the Freiburg journal for philosophy and theology, vol. 40). Universitätsverlag, Friborg 2001. ISBN 3-7278-1348-2 .

Web links

Commons : Henry Edward Manning  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon for Theology and Church , 1st edition, Vol. 6, Col. 856, quoted from: Cardinal Manning at www.kath-info.de
predecessor Office successor
Nicholas Patrick Stephen Cardinal Wiseman Archbishop of Westminster
1865-1892 		Herbert Cardinal Vaughan
personal data
SURNAME Manning, Henry Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English Catholic theologian and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Totteridge , Hertfordshire
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1892
Place of death London