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Born of Protestant parents, he was received into the Catholic Church at the age of 13, and educated at Douai, where he was later professor and vice-president. He was ordained a deacon on 9 March 1716, and then a priest on 28 March 1716. He returned to England in 1730 and worked in the missions in London. Named Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of the London District and Titular Bishop of Doberus on 12 September 1739. Vicar Apostolic on London on 22 September 1758. As administrator he founded schools, instituted conferences among the London clergy, and aided the relief of the poor and aged. He was forced by the anti–Catholic laws of England to spend his life in hiding, and with difficulty escaped Protestant informers. He wrote, translated and edited many religious books and prepared a revised edition of the Douay Bible and Rheims New Testament which became the default English version of the Bible for centuries.
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Additional Information
- New Catholic Dictionary
- The Background to Challoner, by Archbishop David James Mathew
- The Following of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis, translated by Bishop Richard Challoner
- books
- A Short History of the First Beginning and Progress of the Protestant Religion, by Bishop Richard Challoner
- A British Martyrology, by Bishop Richard Challoner
- An Abstract of the History of The Old and New Testaments, by Bishop Richard Challoner
- The Garden of the Soul, by Bishop Richard Challoner
- The Grounds of The Catholic Doctrine, by Bishop Richard Challoner
- The Lives of the Fathers of the Eastern Deserts, by Bishop Richard Challoner
- Memoirs of Missionary Priests, by Bishop Richard Challoner
- Considerations Upon Christian Truths and Duties, by Bishop Richard Challoner
- The New Testament, revised and corrected by Bishop Richard Challoner
- The Catholic Christian Instructed, by Bishop Richard Challoner
- The Life and Times of Bishop Challoner, v1, by Edwin H Burton, D.D.
- The Life and Times of Bishop Challoner, v2, by Edwin H Burton, D.D.
- The Lord’s Prayer and The Angelic Salutation, by Bishop Richard Challoner
- Reflections on the Great Truths of the Christian Religion, by Bishop Richard Challoner
- other sites in english
- images
MLA Citation
- “Bishop Richard Challoner“. CatholicSaints.Info. 8 April 2021. Web. 17 April 2021. <>