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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Right Reverend Dom John Chapman OSB (1865 7 November 1933), received into the Roman Catholic Church at the age of 25, was a Roman Catholic priest, the 4th Abbot of Downside Abbey of the English Benedictine Congregation from 1929 until his death, an internationally respected New Testament and patristics scholar, a defender of the priority of the Gospel according to Matthew, and a spiritual writer enjoying enduring appreciation. Christened Henry Chapman, the son of an Anglican canon of Ely Cathedral, he was educated privately and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he received a first class degree in Classical Greats. He was ordained deacon in the Anglican Church in 1889. In 1890 Chapman was conditionally baptized in the Catholic Church at the Brompton Oratory. He subsequently entered the Benedictine Maredsous Abbey in Belgium, where he made his religious profession in 1895, taking the name of John. After his priestly ordination in 1895, he went to Erdington Abbey, near Birmingham, where he stayed until 1912, serving the community as novice master and later as prior, but also frequently visiting the library of St Mary's College in nearby Oscott. In 1913, Chapman was made temporary superior of the Caldey island community (now based at Prinknash Abbey), when it entered the Roman Catholic Church in 1913-14. On the outbreak of World War I (1914-1918), he became army chaplain to the British forces. In 1919 Chapman transferred his monastic stability to Downside Abbey, where in 1929 the community elected him Abbot. As 4th Abbot of Downside, during his short term of four years, cut short by his death on 7 November 1933, he carried on the work of Abbots Cuthbert Butler and Leander Ramsay. He completed the transformation of Downside int... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2948559


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781158277322
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 20
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 45 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158277326
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: John Chapman, Christopher Butler, Cuthbert Butler
  • Width: 229 mm


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