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Richard Challoner

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September 29, 1691, Lewes, Sussex, England
Died:
January 12, 1781, London (aged 89)
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Richard Challoner (born September 29, 1691, Lewes, Sussex, England—died January 12, 1781, London) was a leader of English Roman Catholics whose revision of the Douai-Reims version of the Bible became the authorized edition for English Catholics. Challoner was educated at the English College at Douai, France, where he was ordained (1716) and appointed vice president and professor of theology (1720). In 1730 he was sent to London, where the Roman Catholic community was small and harassed, and in 1741 was consecrated titular bishop of Debra. In 1758 he became vicar apostolic of the London district, where he increased the number ...(100 of 199 words)

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