Philip Hughes (11 May 1895 – 6 October 1967) was a Roman Catholic priest and Catholic ecclesiastical historian. He taught post-graduate courses at the

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Early life

Hughes was born in Gorton,

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, on 11 May 1895. He received his early education at St Augustine's RC School, Manchester prior to being admitted to

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in September 1907, graduating at midsummer 1912. He then studied at

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and Leeds Seminary, where he was ordained deacon on 16 June 1917, prior to continuing his studies at Louvain University where he received his degree in 1921. He was ordained as a priest in 1920.

Career

After ordination Hughes spent three years in Rome, undertaking research. In 1923, he was appointed history professor at St Thomas College in Minnesota, United States. The following year he was recalled to the

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and began parish work as curate at

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, moving to

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in 1925, St Anne, Fairfield in 1929 and finally to St Thomas of Canterbury, Higher Broughton in 1930. In 1931, Hughes moved to London, to lecture at the new Catholic Centre for Higher Studies, founded by

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. In 1934 he was appointed archivist for the

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. He remained in London until 1955 when he was offered a post as professor of reformation history at the

. He was awarded the title of

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in 1957. Hughes died in America on 6 October 1967, at 72, and was buried in

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, Indiana, United States.

Bibliography

*Hughes, Philip (1935-1947), ''A History of The Church: An Introductory Study'', New York:

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(3 volumes) **Volume I: ''The Church And The World In Which The Church Was Founded'' **Volume II: ''The Church And The World The Church Created. Augustine To Aquinas'' **Volume III: ''The Revolt Against The Church. Aquinas To Luther.'' **Hughes did not complete a planned fourth volume before his death. *Hughes, Philip (1949), ''A Popular History of the Catholic Church'' (20 printings), New York: Macmillan. n abridgment of his three-volume series, but running up to the mid-twentieth century, and published concurrently. *Hughes, Philip (1929), ''The Catholic Question, 1688-1829: a Study in Political History'', London: Sheed & Ward. * *Hughes, Philip (1976), ''A History of the Church to the Eve of the Reformation'', London: Sheed & Ward. *Hughes, Philip (3 volumes, 1950-1954), ''The Reformation in England'', New York: Macmillan. *Hughes, Philip (1935), "From St. Ignatius of Antioch to the Conversion of Constantine", in Cuthbert Lattey, ed., ''The Pre-Nicene Church: Papers Read at the Summer School of Catholic Studies, Held at Cambridge, July 28th to August 6th, 1934'', London: Burns, Oates. *Hall, Richard upposed author(1935), Philip Hughes, ed., ''Saint John Fisher: The Earliest English Life'', London: Burns, Oates. *Hughes, Philip (1937), ''Pope Pius the Eleventh'', New York: Sheed & Ward. *Hughes, Philip (1938), ''The Faith in Practice'', New York: Longmans, Green. *Hughes, Philip (1938), trans., ''Meditations for Lent from St. Thomas Aquinas'', New York: Sheed & Ward. *Hughes, Philip (1942), ''Rome and the Counter-reformation in England'', London: Burns, Oates. *Hughes, Philip (1943), ed., ''The Popes' New Order: A Systematic Summary of the Social Encyclicals and Addresses, from Leo XIII to Pius XII'', London: Burns, Oates. *Hughes, Philip (1957), ''A Popular History of the Reformation'', 1960 reprint, Garden City, NY: Image Books. *Hughes, Philip (1965) ''The Catholic Faith in Practice'', Wilkes-Barre, PA: Dimension Books. * never-finished book in the series, "The Rise of Modern Europe", ''The Catholic Reformation'', was replaced—O'Connell, Marvin (1974), ''The Counter Reformation'', New York: Harper & Row. * Philip Hughes papers (Notre Dame)

References

External links

Outline of the three-volume work, ''A History of the Church''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hughes, Philip 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Roman Catholic writers University of Notre Dame faculty People educated at St Bede's College, Manchester 1895 births 1967 deaths 20th-century American Roman Catholic priests 20th-century American male writers