Smith, Richard (2)
Smith, Richard
Bishop of Chalcedon, second Vicar Apostolic of England; b. at Hanworth, Lincolnshire, Nov., 1568 (not 1566 as commonly stated); d. at Paris, 18 March, 1655. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, where he became a Catholic. He was admitted to the English College, Rome, in 1586, studied under Bellarmine, and was ordained priest 7 May 1592. In Feb., 1593, he arrived at Valladolid, where he took the degree of Doctor of Theology, and taught philosophy at the English College till 1598, when he went to Seville as a professor of controversies. In 1603 he went on the English mission, where he made his mark as a missioner. Chosen to represent the case of the secular clergy in the archpriest controversy, he went to Rome, where he opposed Persons, who said of him: “I never dealt with any man in my life more heady and resolute in his opinions”. In 1613 he became superior of the small body of English secular priests at Arras College, Paris, who devoted themselves to controversial work. In 1625 he was elected to succeed Dr. Bishop as vicar Apostolic, but the date usually assigned for his consecration as Bishop of Chalcedon (12 Jan., 1625) must be wrong, as he was not elected till 2 Jan. He arrived in England in April, of the same year, residing in Lord Montagu’s house at Turvey, Bedfordshire. As vicar Apostolic he came into conflict with the regulars, claiming the rights of an ordinary, but Urban VIII decided (16 Dec., 1627) that he was not an ordinary. In 1628 the Government issued a proclamation for his arrest, and in 1631 he withdrew to Paris, where he lived with Richelieu till the cardinal’s death in 1642; then he retired to the convent of the English Augustinian nuns, where he died.
He wrote: “An answer to T. Bel’s late Challenge” (1605); “The Prudentiall Ballance of Religion”, (1609); “Vita Dominae Magdalenae Montis-Acuti” i.e., Viscountess Montagu (1609); “De auctore et essentia Protestanticae Religionis” (1619), English translation, 1621; “Collatio doctrinae Catholicorum et Protestantium” (1622), tr. (1631); “Of the distinction of fundamental and not fundamental points of faith” (1645); “Monita quaedam utilia pro Sacerdotibus, Seminaristis, Missionariis Angliae” (1647); “A Treatise of the best kinde of Confessors” (1651); “Of the all-sufficient Eternal Proposer of Matters of Faith” (1653); “Florum Historiae Ecclesiasticae gentis Anglorum libri septem” (1654). Many unpublished documents relating to his troubled episcopate (an impartial history of which yet remains to be written) are preserved in the Westminster Diocesan Archives.
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DODD, Church History, III (Brussels vere Wolverhampton, 1737-1742) the account from which most subsequent biographies were derived. See also Tierney’s edition of Dodd for further documents; BERINGTON, Memoirs of Panzani (London, 1793); Calendar State Papers: Dom., 1625-1631; BUTLER, Historical Memoirs of English Catholics (London, 1819); SERGEANT, Account of the English Chapter (London, 1853); FULLERTON, Life of Luisa de Carvajal (London, 1873); FOLEY, Records Eng. Prov. S. J., VI (London, 1880); BRADY, Episcopal Succession, III (Rome, 1877), a confused and self-contradictory account with some new facts; ALGER in Dict. Nat. Biog.; GILLOW, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath.; CEDOZ, Couvent de Religieuses Anglaises a Paris (Paris, 1891); Third Douay Diary, C.R.S. Publications, X (London, 1911).
EDWIN BURTON Transcribed by Thomas M. Barrett Dedicated to the Memory of Bishop Richard Smith
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIVCopyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
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Smith, Richard (1)
Born in Worcestershire, 1500; died at Douai, 9 July, 1563. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford; and, having taken his M.A. degree in 1530, he became registrar of the university in 1532. In 1536 Henry VIII appointed him first Regius Professor of divinity, and he took his doctorate in that subject on 10 July in the same year. He subsequently became master of Whittington College, London; rector of St. Dunstan’s-in-the-East; rector of Cuxham, Oxfordshire; principal of St. Alban’s Hall; and divinity reader at Magdalen College. Under Edward VI he is said by his opponents to have abjured the pope’s authority at St. Paul’s Cross (15 May, 1547) and at Oxford, but the accounts of the proceedings are obscure and unreliable. If he yielded at all, he soon recovered and accordingly suffered the loss of his professorship, being succeeded by Peter Martyr, with whom he held a public disputation in 1549. Shortly afterwards he was arrested, but was soon liberated. Going to Louvain, he became professor of divinity there. During Mary’s Catholic restoration he regained most of his preferments, and was made royal chaplain and canon of Christ Church. He took a prominent part in the proceedings against Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer. He again lost all his benefices at the change of religion under Elizabeth, and after a short imprisonment in Parker’s house he escaped to Douai, where he was appointed by Philip II dean of St. Peter’s church. There is no foundation for the slanderous story spread by the Reformers to account for his deprivation of his Oxford professorship. When Douai University was founded on 5 Oct., 1562, he was installed as chancellor and professor of theology, but only lived a few months to fill these offices. He wrote many works, the chief of which are: “Assertion and Defence of the Sacrament of the Altar” (1546); “Defence of the Sacrifice of the Mass” (1547); “Defensio cœlibatus sacerdotum” (1550); “Diatriba de hominis justificatione” (1550); “Buckler of the Catholic Faith” (1555-56); “De Missæ Sacrificio” (1562); and several refutations of Calvin, Melanchthon, Jewell, and Beza, all published in 1562.
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FOSTER, Alumni Oxonienses, IV (Oxford, 1891); PITS, De illustribus Angliæ Scriptoribus (Paris, 1619); DODD, Church History, II (Brussels vere Wolverhampton, 1737-42); GARDINER, Letters and Papers of Henry VIII; COOPER, Dict. Nat. Biog., s. v.
EDWIN BURTON Transcribed by WGKofron With thanks to Fr. John Hilkert and St. Mary’s Church, Akron, Ohio
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIVCopyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
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Smith, Richard (1)
a learned Roman Catholic divine of England, was born in Worcestershire in 1500, and educated at Oxford. In 1527 he was admitted a probationary fellow of Merton College, took his degree of A.M. in 1530, and was elected registrar of the university in the following year. He afterwards became rector of Cuxham, Oxfordshire;. principal of St. Alban’s Hall, divinity reader of Magdalen College, regius professor of divinity, and took his degree of D.D. in that faculty. In 1537 he was made master of Wittington College, London, but was deprived in the reign of, Edward VI. In the first year of that reign he recanted his opinions at St. Paul’s Cross, but was obliged to resign his professorship at Oxford. He went to St. Andrew’s, Scotland; thence to Paris in 1550, and then to Louvain, where he was made professor of theology. On the accession of queen Mary he returned to England, was restored to his professorship, made canon of Christ Church, and chaplain to her majesty. He was one of the witnesses against Cranmer, and at the burning of Ridley and Latimer he preached, from 1Co 13:3, a sermon, lasting about fifteen minutes, full of invective against the martyrs. For this conduct he was deprived of all his preferments upon the accession of Elizabeth, and placed in the custody of archbishop Parker, by whose persuasion he recanted part of what he had written in defense of the celibacy of the clergy. He escaped to Dolay, Flanders, where he obtained the deanery of St. Peter’s Church and a professorship. He died in 1563. Smith wrote about sixteen tracts in favor of popery: The Assertion and Defense of the Sacraments (Lond. 1546, sm. 8vo): A Defense of the Sacrifice of the Masse (1546; 16mo; 1547, 8vo): Bouclier of the Catholike Fayth of Christe’s Church (2 pts. 8vo). The entire list may be seen in Dodd or Wood. See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Smith, Richard (2)
an English Roman Catholic prelate, was born in Lincolnshire in 1566, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and afterwards at Rome. He then completed his studies in Spain, taking his doctor’s degree at Valladolid, and in 1603 arrived in England as a missionary. He sided against the Jesuit party, and was opposed by them when named for the bishopric of Chalcedon. On Feb. 4 he was, however, appointed bishop of that diocese. A controversy shortly arose between him and the regulars of his own Church, and Smith was ordered to drop the title of Ordinary of England which he had assumed. In 1629 two proclamations were issued against him, which induced him to leave the kingdom and retire to France. There he exercised his jurisdiction over the English Romanists by vicars-general and other ecclesiastical officers. He experienced the kindness of cardinal Richelieu, who bestowed upon him the abbacy of Charroux; but his successor, Mazarin, withdrew his protection, and deprived him of that position. He afterwards retired to an apartment near the convent of some English nuns in the vicinity of Paris, where he died, March 18, 1655. Smith wrote several works in defense of himself and of popery in his dispute with the regulars. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Dodd, Church History, vol. 3; Hook, Eccles. Biog. s.v.