Thomas Louis Green (1799–1883) was an English Catholic priest and apologist. His first posting as a priest was in

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from 1828 to 1830 where he gained a reputation as a controversial preacher but refused a public debate because of the chances of anti-Catholic riots. He later became a chaplain to Catholic gentry first to Sir Thomas Clifford-Constable and then after postings in his old seminary in Oscott, a priory in Coventry and two parishes in

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, he became chaplain to

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in 1860. He contributed to the Catholic periodicals "Orthodox Journal", "Catholic Magazine" and "True Tablet".

Works

*''A series of discourses on the principal controverted points of Catholic Doctrine delivered at . . . Norwich (Norwich, 1830), reprinted under the title "Argumentative Discourses" in 1837 *''A Correspondence between the Protestant Rector of

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and the Catholic Chaplain of Sir Clifford Constable'' *''A Letter addressed to Rev. Clement Leigh'' (London, 1836) *''The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth'' *''The Secular Clergy Fund of the late Midland District'' (London, 1853, privately printed) *''Rome, Purgatory, Indulgences, Idolatry, etc.'' Bridgnorth, 1863, https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Rome_Purgatory_Indulgences_Idolatry_etc/tJtdAAAAcAAJ *''Indulgences, Sacramental Absolutions and Tax Tables of the Roman Chancery and Penitentiary considered in reply to the charge of Venality'' (London, 1872, 1880)

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19th-century English Roman Catholic priests 1799 births 1883 deaths {{UK-RC-clergy-stub