RELIGIOUS FIGURE

John Henry Newman

1801 - 1890

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John Henry Newman (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet, first as an Anglican priest and later as a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s, and was canonised as a saint in the Catholic Church in 2019. Originally an evangelical academic at the University of Oxford and priest in the Church of England, Newman was drawn to the high-church tradition of Anglicanism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Henry Newman has received more than 2,205,111 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). John Henry Newman is the 768th most popular religious figure (down from 718th in 2019), the 679th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 635th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Religious Figure.

John Henry Newman was a British theologian who converted to Catholicism. He is most famous for his work on the development of doctrine and his writings on religious education.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, John Henry Newman ranks 768 out of 3,187. Before him are Karmapa, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Margaret of Hungary, Sasan, and Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow. After him are Romuald, Zephaniah, Onesimus, Brother Roger, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, and Anna Göldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, John Henry Newman ranks 12. Before him are Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, John of Saxony, Joseph Plateau, Johannes Peter Müller, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, and Amalie Auguste of Bavaria. After him are Thomas Cole, Immanuel Nobel, Joseph Lanner, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, and Maria Theresa of Austria. Among people deceased in 1890, John Henry Newman ranks 16. Before him are Joseph Merrick, Henri Nestlé, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Richard Francis Burton, William Kemmler, and Niels Gade. After him are Princess Zorka of Montenegro, Louis Le Prince, Gottfried Keller, Lorenz von Stein, Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, and Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Henry Newman ranks 679 out of 8,785. Before him are James Bradley (1693), Brian Cox (1946), Ben Jonson (1572), George Porter (1920), Roy Hodgson (1947), and James Francis Edward Stuart (1688). After him are James Clark Ross (1800), Bruce Chatwin (1940), Oliver Heaviside (1850), William Jones (1746), Dua Lipa (1995), and Jessica Tandy (1909).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United Kingdom

Among religious figures born in United Kingdom, John Henry Newman ranks 14. Before him are John Knox (1514), Saint Walpurga (710), Saint Boniface (680), Thomas Wolsey (1473), Pope Adrian IV (1100), and Willibrord (658). After him are William Tyndale (1494), Charles Spurgeon (1834), John Harvard (1607), Frederick Fleet (1887), Mary Ann Nichols (1845), and Henry (1100).

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