Edward Henry Howard

Edward Henry Howard ( born February 13, 1829 in Hainton to Nottingham, United Kingdom, † September 16, 1892 in Hatch Beauchamp to Brighton, United Kingdom ) was a Roman Catholic bishop and Cardinal Bishop of Frascati, Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, Cardinal priest and titular archbishop.

Life

Edward Henry Howard was born in 1829 in the central England city of Nottingham districts. Howard came from a traditional Roman Catholic noble family of Norfalk. The study of theology graduated from Howard in the Episcopal Seminary Oscott College of the Diocese of Birmingham. Other courses he took in Scotland, at Edinburgh University.

In Italy, Howard was on December 8, 1854, ordained at the age of 25 years a priest in Rome. Ibid he sat in the same year his ecclesiastical training in the English seminary Collegium Anglorum, the Pontifical Gregorian University and at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy until 1858 continues. Howard earned a doctorate in canon law and the subjects of Catholic theology. Because of his knowledge of languages ​​of six foreign languages ​​, Howard harbored the desire to be a missionary for the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Pius IX. but decided that Howard remained in Rome and appointed him in 1863 as honorary prelate of His Holiness.

Howard had pastoral charge of the arms and soldiers in Rome. As a young man Howard made ​​himself his military service in the second regiment of the British Life Guards. Diplomatically Edward Henry Howard was active in Goa, India, where he negotiated between the British and the Portuguese authorities on outstanding issues in canonical matters. On 22 June 1872, appointed Edward Henry Howard auxiliary bishop in Frascati and Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in pontoon. The solemn consecration took place at the age of 43 years, on 30 June 1872 in Rome. The sacrament of Holy Orders was Howard donated by Cardinal Carlo Sacconi principal consecrator, as co-consecrators acted Cardinal Salvatore Nobili Vitelleschi and Archbishop Frédéric -François -Xavier Ghislain de Merode. The survey Howard's cardinal took place on March 12, 1877, also was appointed Cardinal Priest of the titular church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo.

At the age of 52 years Edward Henry Cardinal Howard was appointed archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica on December 12, 1881. Three years later he was appointed cardinal priest of Frascati. Edward Henry Howard took part in the conclave elected pope Leo XIII. in part. In 1887 ill Cardinal Howard difficult, the same year he was the founder of the Pontifical Canadian College in Rome. In 1888 he returned to England and spent his last days in the English village of Hatch Beauchamp, where he died on 16 September 1892. He was in the town of Arundel (West Sussex ), buried in the Fitzalan Chapel there in the family grave of the Dukes of Norfolk.