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12 unusual facts about Oxford Movement


Aloysius Gentili

This conversion was the first of the Oxford Movement, preceding the reception of Newman himself by no less than two years.

Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church

The ACC has accepted major modifications in sacramental theology and principles of church government from the Church of Sweden (Lutheran), the Oxford Movement of the Anglican Communion, and the documents and teachings of the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church which includes the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994).

British Critic

The owners were, however, in some difficulty in controlling the editorial line under both Campbell and Boone; and turned eventually to Oxford Movement figures.

Church Choral Society

The Church Choral Society was founded in 1872 by The Rev'd. Henry George Bonavia Hunt and played a major role in the musical side of the Oxford Movement.

Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture

Hawkins was elected on the strength of his reputation gained opposing the Oxford Movement (a group within the Church of England, sometimes called "Tractarians", who aimed to reform the church by reasserting its links with the early Catholic church).

Appointed Provost of Oriel in 1828, he was a leading opponent of the Oxford Movement; his theologian reputation led to his election as the first Dean Ireland Professor.

Eminent Victorians

In Cardinal Manning's story, the background is the creation of the Oxford Movement and the defection of an influential group of Church of England clergy to the Catholic Church.

Geneva gown

For this reason, the gown is sometimes (though rarely) found in "low church" parishes of the Anglican Communion, many whom desire a continuity with the stauncher Protestant stances of the church before the influence of the Oxford Movement.

Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio

Salis was a friend of Samuel Wix (1771–1861), the pre-Tractarian high-churchman (i.e. pre-Oxford Movement), and paid for his Reflections concerning the expediency of a council of the Church of England and the Church of Rome being holden, with a view to accommodate religious differences (1818) to be translated into several languages.

Oxford Movement

The immediate impetus for the movement was a perceived attack by the reforming Whig administration on the structure and revenues of the established church in Ireland, with the Irish Church Temporalities Bill (1833).

Apart from the Tracts for the Times, the group began a collection of translations of the Fathers, which they called the Library of the Fathers.

Thomas Hyde Page

His eldest daughter Mary Albinia (d. 1835) married Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, third baronet (1769–1847); their third daughter Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey married businessan William Gibbs, both becoming religious philanthropists and supporters of the Oxford Movement.


Henry George Bonavia Hunt

In 1872 Hunt founded an organisation that was at first known as the Church Choral Society and it had as its object the promotion of higher standards of church music, within the background of the Oxford Movement and it should be remembered that the standard of Church Music had been quite terrible in England for much of the 19th Century.

Levi Silliman Ives

Having become deeply attracted to the Oxford Movement while studying Church history, Ives founded a religious community called the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross at Valle Crucis, North Carolina.

Martyrs' Memorial

As well as being a monument to the Reformation, the memorial is also a landmark of the 19th century Oxford Movement, propagated by John Keble, John Henry Newman and others.