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Changing Concepts of the Pastoral Office: Wiseman, Manning and the Oblates of St. Charles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

V. Alan McClelland
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The clearest account of the foundation of the Oblates of St. Charles can be gleaned from Henry Edward Manning’s submission of 1860 to Pope Pius IX in response to complaints raised against the Oblates in that year by Archbishop George Errington, Wiseman’s coadjutor, and the Westminster diocesan chapter. He writes as follows:

In the year 1853, while I was still residing in the Accademia Ecclesiastica, His Em. Cardinal Wiseman, in a letter from the Vicar General, with a postscript in his own handwriting, desired that I should return to England, and participate in the formation of a Congregation of Oblates for the Diocese of Westminster.

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British Catholic History , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , October 2000 , pp. 218 - 236
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 2001

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2 H. E. Manning’s letter of 1860, as Provost of Westminster, to Pope Pius IX on difficulties with the diocesan chapter, copy in the Manning collection formerly at Bayswater (MCB).

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