Anthony Champney (c. 1569 in England – c. 1643 in England) was an English

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priest and controversialist.

Life

He studied at

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(1590) and

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(1593). As priest he was imprisoned at

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, and was active against the

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, acting later for the Appellant Clergy in Rome (1602). Afterwards he was appointed president of

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near Paris, becoming doctor of theology and Fellow of the

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. He was vice-president of

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, from 1619 to 1625, and from 1628 until he returned to England, where he died some time after 1643.

Works

He published: *''An Answer to a Letter of a Jesuited Gentleman'' (1601); *''A Manual of Controversies''(1614); *''A Treatise of the Vocation of Bishops'' (1616), a reply to the ''Consecration of Bishops in the Church of England'' (1613) of Francis Mason *''Mr. Pilkington his Parallela Disparalled'' (1620) *''An Answer to a Pamphlet (by D. Featley) titled 'The Fisher catched in his own Net'.'' (1623); *''Defence of the Appendix to the Antidote'' (before 1624) *''Legatum Fratribus suis Cleri Anglicani Sacerdotibus Testamento relictum'' (in Bishop Smith's ''Monita'') His "History of Queen Elizabeth" (''Annales Elizabethae Reginae'') is still in manuscript. Formerly, as stated by

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Thomas Francis Knox Father Francis Knox (born as Thomas Francis Knox; 24 December 1822 – 20 March 1882, London Thompson Cooper''Knox, Thomas Francis (1822–1882)'' reviewed by Sheridan Gilley, '' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University P ...

, etc., it was preserved in the archives of the

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; from 1879 it has been in the Westminster Diocesan Archives. There are also some other works in manuscript.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Champney, Anthony 1569 births 1643 deaths Academic staff of the University of Paris 16th-century English Roman Catholic priests English expatriates in France