Peter Guilday

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Rev. Dr.
Peter K. Guilday
Born(1884-03-25)March 25, 1884
Church History
InstitutionsCatholic University of America
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity
Church
Roman Catholic Church
OrdainedJuly 11, 1909
Congregations served
St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater

Monsignor Peter Keenan Guilday (March 25, 1884 - July 31, 1947) American Catholic priest and historian.[1]

Life

Guilday was born in

American College of Louvain.[1] He was ordained to the priesthood there on July 11, 1909, by Henry Gabriels.[1]

After ordination, Guilday briefly studied at the University of Bonn, but returned to Louvain University to work on his doctorate, which he obtained there in 1914.[2] His doctoral dissertation was supervised by Alfred Cauchie.[1] While working on his doctorate, Guilday visited archives in France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy and spent a year in London, working as a priest at St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater, while attending lectures in history at the University of London.[1]

His doctoral dissertation was published in London in 1914 by

Longmans, Green and Company under the title The English Catholic Refugees on the Continent, 1558–1795, volume 1. Guilday intended to follow this up with a second volume on the Irish Colleges on the Continent, but research for this was made impossible by the outbreak of World War I.[1]

Instead, in 1914, Guilday began teaching at

Archbishop of Philadelphia, to release him from diocesan duties so that he could join the faculty.[1] During the war, Guilday also served as secretary to the National Catholic War Council's committee on historical records and as assistant district educational director in the Students Army Training Corps.[1]

As an academic, Guilday worked as principal editor of the

Archbishop of New York, but was prevented by poor health.[1]
He died in 1947.

Honours

Works

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k John Tracy Ellis, "Monsignore Peter Guilday" in The Catholic Historical Review 43:3 (Oct. 1947), 257-268.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Raymond W. Albright, "In Memoriam Peter Guilday", Church History 16:4 (1947), p. 248.

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