Henry Wansbrough | |
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 Wansbrough in 2010 | |
| Born | Joseph Wansbrough 9 October 1934 London, England |
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| Religion | Christianity (Roman Catholic) |
| Church | Latin Church |
| Ordained | 1964 (priest) [1] |
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| Discipline | Biblical studies |
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Henry Wansbrough OSB (born Joseph Wansbrough,1934) is an English biblical scholar,Catholic priest,and monk of Ampleforth Abbey. From 1990 to 2004,he served as Master of St Benet's Hall,Oxford.
Born as Joseph Wansbrough on 9 October 1934 [2] in London,England, [1] Henry Wansbrough is Cathedral Prior of Norwich (2004–present),Magister Scholarum of the English Benedictine Congregation (2001–present),member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission (1997–2007), [3] Chairman of the Trustees of the Catholic Biblical Association (1996–present),and Emeritus Member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford (1990–present). He is Alexander Jones Professor of Biblical Studies within the Department of Theology,Philosophy and Religious studies at Liverpool Hope University. From 1990 until 2004 he was Master of St Benet's Hall,the Benedictine permanent private hall of the University of Oxford.
While studying at the University of Oxford he was examined by novelist C.S. Lewis. [4]
He was an early advocate for the acceptance of Protestant scholars,persuading the editors of the Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture to remove asterisks highlighting the contributions of Protestant scholars in the second edition,arguing that “we can learn from one another”. [4]
He was General Editor of the New Jerusalem Bible and the Revised New Jerusalem Bible . [5] He has written twenty books,more than sixty articles,around ninety book reviews,an edition of the Synoptic Gospels,with an accompanying textbook,for A-Level students,and more than fifty electronic booklets,essays,and lectures,as well as editing,co-editing,and translating other volumes.
He produces the "Wednesday Word" [6] a not-for-profit collaborative charitable trust based at St Austin's Catholic Church,Wakefield,West Yorkshire which aims to spread the Sunday Gospel to families through primary schools and enriching the Home,School &Parish partnership.
He currently resides at Ampleforth Abbey,working as a religious studies teacher at Ampleforth College where he stays active by riding his scooter around the school. [4] [7] He also works as a house chaplain at St Oswald's boarding house.
The Benedictines,officially the Order of Saint Benedict,are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict. Initiated in 529 they are the oldest of all the religious orders in the Latin Church. The male religious are also sometimes called the Black Monks,especially in English speaking countries,after the colour of their habits. Not all Benedictines wear black,however,with some like the Olivetans wearing white. They were founded by Benedict of Nursia,a 6th-century Italian monk who laid the foundations of Benedictine monasticism through the formulation of his Rule. Benedict's sister,Scholastica,possibly his twin,also became a religious from an early age,but chose to live as a hermit. They retained a close relationship until her death.
St Benet's Hall was a permanent private hall (PPH) of the University of Oxford,originally a Roman Catholic religious house of studies. It closed in 2022. The principal building was located at the northern end of St Giles' on its western side,close to the junction with Woodstock Road,Oxford.
The Jerusalem Bible is an English translation of the Bible published in 1966 by Darton,Longman &Todd. As a Catholic Bible,it includes 73 books:the 39 books shared with the Hebrew Bible,along with the seven deuterocanonical books,as the Old Testament,and the 27 books shared by all Christians as the New Testament. It also contains copious footnotes and introductions.
The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) is an English-language translation of the Bible published in 1985 by Darton,Longman and Todd and Les Editions du Cerf,edited by Benedictine biblical scholar Henry Wansbrough,and approved for use in study and personal devotion by members of the Catholic Church and approved also by the Church of England.
George Basil Hume was an English Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1976 until his death in 1999. He was a priest of the Benedictine Order and was made a cardinal in 1977.
Christopher Butler,born Basil Butler,was a convert from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church,a Bishop,a scholar,and a Benedictine Monk.
John Chapman was an English Roman Catholic priest,the 4th Abbot of Downside Abbey of the English Benedictine Congregation from 1929 until his death,and a New Testament and patristics scholar.
Antoine Augustin Calmet,O.S.B.,a French Benedictine monk,was born at Ménil-la-Horgne,then in the Duchy of Bar,part of the Holy Roman Empire.
The English Benedictine Congregation (EBC) is a congregation of autonomous abbatial and prioral monastic communities of Catholic Benedictine monks,nuns,and lay oblates. It is technically the oldest of the nineteen congregations affiliated to the Benedictine Confederation.
The Hiberno-Scottish mission was a series of expeditions in the 6th and 7th centuries by Gaelic missionaries originating from Ireland that spread Celtic Christianity in Scotland,Wales,England and Merovingian France. Catholic Christianity spread first within Ireland. Since the 8th and 9th centuries,these early missions were called 'Celtic Christianity'.
Dom Columba Cary-Elwes,OSB was an English Benedictine monk who professed vows at Ampleforth Abbey in York,England. As a missionary he travelled to Uganda,Tanzania and Kenya and has written books on Christianity. He was the founding prior of the Priory of Saints Louis and Mary in Saint Louis,Missouri.
Alban Roe was an English Benedictine priest,remembered as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Lamspringe Abbey is a former religious house of the English Benedictines in exile,at Lamspringe near Hildesheim in Germany.
Ampleforth Abbey is a monastery of Benedictine monks a mile to the east of Ampleforth,North Yorkshire,England,part of the English Benedictine Congregation. It descends from the pre-Reformation community at Westminster Abbey through the last surviving monk from Westminster,Sigebert Buckley. As of 2024 the monastery has 41 monks,and sometimes will have 50 nuns of the monastery organization.
Sigebert Buckley O.S.B. was a Benedictine monk in England,regarded by the English Benedictine Congregation as representing the continuity of the community's tradition through the English Reformation.
Dom Benet Perceval,OSB was the oldest member of the monastic community at Ampleforth Abbey,England,when he died at age 92 on 30 January 2009.
Dom Fabian Cowper,OSB,a monk of Ampleforth Abbey,was an English Roman Catholic monk,who served as Master of St Benet's Hall,Oxford from 1989 until his death in 1990.
The Monastery of Christ the Word is a priory of the English Benedictine Congregation (EBC) located in Macheke,Zimbabwe,within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Harare. Founded in 1996,its community comprises some five monks.
Edward Bernard Green OSB was an English Catholic priest,Benedictine monk of Ampleforth Abbey,and historian.
The Revised New Jerusalem Bible (RNJB) is an English translation of the Catholic Bible translated by the Benedictine scholar Henry Wansbrough as an update and successor to the 1966 Jerusalem Bible and the 1985 New Jerusalem Bible.
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