Title
Richard Challoner
Source
William M. Klimon
Publisher
Center for Norbertine Studies
Birth Date
1691
Death Date
1781
Biographical Text
Challoner, one of the great figures of English Catholicism, served as bishop, and later vicar apostolic of the London district, for 40 years. That unflinching service, during the Penal Times, would have been enough to ensure his greatness, but he was also a literary genius, translator of Scripture, composer of prayer books, and theological controversialist, who “supplied, in fact, almost the entire range of necessary or useful religious literature for his Catholic fellow-countrymen.” That included this new edition of St. Augustine's Confessions, in light of the scarcity and difficulty of the earlier Matthew and Woodhead editions. Bp. Challoner's translation went through many later editions, many published in Dublin.
REFERENCES: Blom, 127; Gillow, 1:447-57; Burton, 1:371-72, 2:33, 328.
REFERENCES: Blom, 127; Gillow, 1:447-57; Burton, 1:371-72, 2:33, 328.