Blackfriars, Oxford
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Blackfriars Hall, Oxford
)
  Location within Oxford city centre | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Priory of the Holy Spirit |
| Order | Dominican Order |
| Established | 1221 |
| Disestablished | 1538 |
| Reestablished | 1921 |
| Dedicated to | Holy Spirit |
| Diocese | Birmingham |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Bede Jarrett (1921) |
| Prior | Rev. Nicholas Crowe, O.P. |
| Important associated figures | Thomas of Jorz |
| Site | |
| Location | Oxford, England |
| Coordinates | 51°45′22″N 1°15′37″W / 51.756121°N 1.260206°W |
| Website | Priory website |
Blackfriars Priory (formally the Priory of the Holy Spirit) is a
friars, a reference to their black cappa, which forms part of their habit
.
Blackfriars is located in central Oxford on St Giles', between the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies and St Cross College.
History
The
University of Oxford's history. In 1236 they established a new and extensive priory in the St. Ebbes district.[2]
Like all the monastic houses in Oxford, Blackfriars came into rapid and repeated conflict with the university authorities. With the
suppressed. The Dominicans did not return to Oxford for some 400 years, until 1921 when Blackfriars was refounded by Bede Jarrett as a religious house.[3] The original priory building was designed by Edward Doran Webb and completed in 1929.[1] The Dominican studium at Blackfriars had a close relationship with the university, culminating in the establishment of Blackfriars as a permanent private hall in 1994.[4]
Blackfriars' Studium
Blackfriars offers those preparing for the Catholic priesthood the
Baccalaureate in Sacred Theology (STB) granted by the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome. It is also possible for lay men and women to begin the Angelicum's STB programme by studying in the Blackfriars Studium and to conclude the programme with at least a year's full-time study at the Angelicum.[5]
Notable Friars
- Malcolm McMahon, Archbishop of Liverpool, former Prior.
- Aidan Nichols, first John Paul II Memorial Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford
- Brian Davies - philosopher
- Richard Finn
- Timothy Radcliffe - former Prior and sometime Master of the Order of Preachers.
- Fergus Kerr - former Prior.
Burials at Blackfriars Abbey, Oxford
References
- ^ a b "Blackfriars, the Priory of the Holy Spirit". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. 1988. pp. 43–44.
- ISBN 978-0-9576797-6-4.
- .
- ISBN 978-0199243563.
- ^ "Dominican Studium: Introduction". Blackfriars, Oxford. Archived from the original on 9 July 2013.