Henry Edward Cardinal Manning

Henry Edward Cardinal Manning (July 15, 1808 - January 14, 1892) was an English Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal.

Conversion To Catholicism

Manning's belief in Anglicanism was shattered in 1850, when the Privy Council successfully ordered the Church to institute a clergyman whom many, including Manning, considered a heretic. The following year he was received into the Catholic Church and soon after was ordained a priest. Given his great abilities and prior fame, he quickly rose to a position of influence, and, in 1865, was chosen as Archbishop of Westminster.

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Among his accomplishments as head of the Catholic Church in England were the building of Westminster Cathedral and a greatly expanded system of Catholic education. In 1875, he was made a cardinal and he participated in the conclave that elected Leo XIII in 1878.

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