Hugh Pope

Henry Vincent Pope, better known as Fr. Hugh Pope (1869—1946), was a Dominican biblical scholar, Professor of New Testament Exegesis at the Collegium Angelicum in Rome.

Life

Henry Vincent Pope was born at Kenilworth on 6 August 1869, the first son of Richard Vercoe Pope by his second wife, Elizabeth A. Phillips. His father was a convert to Roman Catholicism who taught at the Oratory School in Birmingham. Henry entered the Dominican Order, taking the name Hugh. He was ordained a priest on 19 September 1896. He went on to become Professor of New Testament Exegesis at the Collegium Angelicum in Rome. He died in Edinburgh on 23 November 1946.

A memorial volume was published as Kieran Mulvey, Hugh Pope of the Order of Preachers (London: Blackfriars Publications, 1954).

Publications

Articles and published lectures

• ‘What Are We to Think of Modern Spiritualism?’, American Ecclesiastical Review 27(1902), pp. 284-300.
• ‘The Influence of the Cuneiform Inscriptions upon Biblical Criticism’, American Ecclesiastical Review 29 (1903), pp. 352-363.
• ‘The Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God and the Teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas’, American Ecclesiastical Review 31 (1904), pp. 566-581.
• ‘The Formation of a Great Preacher’, American Ecclesiastical Review 39 (1908), pp.140-148; 257-269. (On St Augustine of Hippo.)
• ‘The Scholastic View of Biblical Inspiration’, Irish Theological Quarterly (1911).
• ‘St. Thomas Aquinas as an Interpreter of Holy Scripture’. Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1924. (Lecture)
• ‘A Brief History of the English Version of the New Testament first published at Rheims in 1582, continued down to the present day’, The Library, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society (March 1940), pp. 351-376.

Pamphlets

• Can I stay where I am? An inquiry addressed to "Anglo-Catholics" in doubt. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1911.
• The Godhead of Christ as Portrayed in the Gospels. London : Catholic Truth Society, 1924.
• Why Believe the Bible? London: Catholic Truth Society, 1924.
• The Catholic Doctrine of Indulgences. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1932 (several times reprinted).

Books

• The Catholic Church and the Bible. New York: The Macmillan company, 1928 (several times reprinted).
• The Date of the Composition of Deuteronomy: A Critical Study. Rome: F. Pustet, 1910.
• The Catholic Student's “Aids” to the Bible. 3 vols. London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1913-23.
• English Versions of the Bible, revised and amplified by Sebastian Bullough. St. Louis: Herder, 1952.
• Saint Augustine of Hippo: Essays Dealing with his Life and Times and some features of his Work. London: Sands, 1937 (several further editions).

Translations and editions

• Psalm CXVIII: A Meditation on the Law of God, edited by the Rev. Hugh Pope, O.P. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1901.
• Fifty-two Psalms, Selected from the Psalter, edited with notes by Father Hugh Pope, O.P. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1902.
• On Prayer and the Contemplative Life, by S. Thomas Aquinas; tr. by Hugh Pope, with a preface by Vincent McNabb. London: Washbourne, 1914.
• The Friar Preacher: Yesterday and To-day, translated from the French of Père Jacquin by Hugh Pope. London: Washbourne, 1915.
• A Manual for Dominican Lay-Brothers. Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, 1926.
• The Layman's New Testament, eing the Rheims text as first revised by Bishop Challoner, edited with introduction & notes by Hugh Pope. London: Sheed & Ward, 1927 (several times reprinted).
• The Teaching of St. Augustine on Prayer & the Contemplative Life, a translation of various passages from the Saint's sermons and other writings by Father Hugh Pope. London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne ltd, 1935.