Edward Henry Howard

His Eminence Edward Henry Cardinal Howard
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
See	Frascati
Appointed	24 March 1884
Term ended	16 September 1892
Predecessor	Filippo Maria Guidi
Successor	Tommaso Maria Zigliara
Other posts	Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica
Orders
Ordination	8 December 1854
Consecration	30 June 1872 by Carlo Sacconi
Created Cardinal	12 March 1877
Rank	Cardinal-Bishop
Personal details
Born	13 February 1829 Hainton, Nottingham, England
Died	16 September 1892 (aged 63) Hatch Beauchamp, Brighton, Sussex, England
Buried	Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, Sussex, England
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholic Church
Parents	Edward Giles Howard and Frances Anne Heneage
Previous post	Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto (1872–1877) Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo (1877 - 1884)

Edward Henry Howard (1829 – 1892) was an English Catholic priest and archbishop, who was made a cardinal in 1877.^[1][2]

He was a relative of the Dukes of Norfolk.

He was the son of Edward Charles Howard of Glossop, and received his primary education at Oscott. After a short stint of service as an officer with the Life Guards (British Army), he resigned his commission to study for the priesthood at the Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles in Rome, and was ordained a priest in 1855. He served as a missionary in Goa, India. After his return to Rome, he continued to work with Englishmen who wished to convert from Anglicanism to the Catholic Church. He was made Archbishop of Neocaesaria in partibus and assistant bishop to the Cardinal Bishop of Frascati in June 1871.

He was promoted to Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo on 12 March 1877 and appointed Protector of the English College at Rome, an institution to which he later left his valuable library. For about a year, he was papal envoy to Goa, India, to negotiate between the British and the Portuguese authorities the settlement of the problems concerning the ecclesiastical government of the Province of Goa. He wanted to become a missionary in the East but the Pope Pius IX insisted that he stay in Rome. He served in pastoral ministry in Rome as confessor of the poor and the soldiers. In December 1881 he became Archpriest of Saint Peter's Basilica. On 24 March 1884 he became Cardinal-Bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Frascati.

In failing health, he retired to Brighton shortly before his death, which occurred on 16 September 1892. He is buried at the Fitzalan Chapel in Arundel, West Sussex.

Honours

• Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Kalākaua I, 1881^[3]

References

1. Miranda, Salvador. "Edward Henry Howard". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
2. "Edward Henry Cardinal Howard". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
3. The Royal Tourist—Kalakaua's Letters Home from Tokio to London. Editor: Richard A. Greer. Date: 10 March 1881

External links

• Dudley Baxter, England's Cardinals pages 82–85
• New Zealand Tablet, The New English Cardinal
• John Martin Robinson, The Duke of Norfolk, A Quincentennial History

Ordination history of Edward Henry Howard
Priestly ordination
Date of ordination	8 December 1854
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Carlo Sacconi
Co-consecrators	Salvatore Nobili Vitelleschi Frédéric-François-Xavier Ghislain de Mérode
Date of consecration	30 June 1872
Cardinalate
Date of elevation	12 March 1877
Bishops consecrated by Edward Henry Howard as principal consecrator
Pietro Pace	1877
George Rigg	1878
Christophore Cosandey	1880
Federico Pietro Foschi	1880
Casimiro Gennari	1881
Alfonso Maria Giordano	1881
Robert Aston Coffin	1882
Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro	1882
Giovanni Battista Mantovano	1883
Johannes Joseph Koppes	1883
Vincenzo Addessi	1884
Stanislao Maria de Luca	1884
Pasquale Maria Jaderosa	1884
Federico Pizza	1884