Hugh Pope

Henry Vincent Pope, better known as Fr. Hugh Pope (1869—1946), was an English Dominican biblical scholar, Professor of New Testament Exegesis at the Pontificium Collegium Internationale Angelicum, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome.

Early biography

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.

Formation

Queen's College, Birmingham, a predecessor college of Birmingham University

Pope was educated at the Oratory School, Birmingham, and at Queen's College, Birmingham (a predecessor college of Birmingham University), where he studied medicine.

Pope entered the Dominican Order at Woodchester 29 September 1891. He studied philosophy at Woodchester until 1894. In 1894 he was transferred to Hawkesyard as a member of the first community there. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Ilsley of Birmingham in September 1896. Pope was sent to Louvain to complete his theological studies becoming a lector in sacred theology there in 1898.[1]

Career

Pope was assigned to Hawkesyard as professor of sacred Scripture in 1898 also serving as librarian. From 1904-7 he was subprior of Hawkesyard. In 1909 he passed the examination and examination in Sacred Scripture before the Biblical Commission in Rome and received a doctorate in sacred theology.

In 1908 Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, O.P., the 76th Master General of the Order of Preachers appointed Pope professor of New Testament Exegesis at the Pontificium Collegium Internationale Angelicum, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome. Cormier created Pope a Master of Sacred Theology in 1911.[2] However, in 1913 Pope was accused of modernism and had to leave Rome.[3] He returned to England. In 1914 he became prior of Woodchester.

Woodchester Wayside Cross

In 1915 after the deaths of two parishioners and the Priory’s garden boy, who had been adopted by the Dominican Brothers, Father Pope sought to memorialize these men. A Wayside Cross was placed on high ground by the side of the road running by the Priory. The cross came to memorialize not only the fallen residents of the village, but soldiers from South Africa, Australia, Canada and France. Dedicated on June 3, 1917, it was likely the first World War I memorial erected in Britain.[4] On its centennial anniversary the memorial was rededicated, the Princess Royal and other local dignitaries attending.[5]


Pope 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

Pamphlets

Books

Translations and editions

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ http://scotland.op.org/edinburgh/past_community/hugh_pope.html Accessed 10 August 2013
  2. ↑ http://scotland.op.org/edinburgh/past_community/hugh_pope.html Accessed 2-7-2013
  3. ↑ Füllenbach, Elias H. Die Dominikaner zwischen Thomismus und Modernismusverdacht. Die Studienhäuser des Ordens in Europa und ihre Verbindungen, in: Claus Arnold / Johannes Wischmeyer (ed.), Transnationale Dimensionen wissenschaftlicher Theologie, Göttingen 2013, p. 190.
  4. ↑ "Woodchester Wayside Cross: Britain’s first war memorial", The History Press
  5. ↑ "Woodchester Wayside Cross", Woodchester Priory
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