Robert Coffin (bishop)
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Robert Aston Coffin Redemptorist and Bishop of Southwark (25 May 1882 – 6 April 1885).
Coffin was born at
Ambrose Lisle Phillips at Grace Dieu manor, and then he went with John Henry Newman to Rome
, where he was ordained priest in 1847.
Coffin joined the
Provincial Superior, in which he was successively confirmed every three years until his elevation to the episcopate
. From 1852 to 1872 he was mostly employed in preaching missions and giving clergy retreats throughout England, Ireland and Scotland.
In April 1882
St. Alfonso, on the Esquiline, at Rome, 11 June 1882, and enthroned at St George's Cathedral, Southwark, on the 27th of the following month. He died at the house of the Redemptorists at Teignmouth
.
Works
Coffin published English translations of many of the works of
Blosius
's Oratory of the Faithful Soul.
References
- Catholic-Hierarchy.org
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Coffin, Robert Aston". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
External links
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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