Peter Guilday

Monsignor Peter Keenan Guilday (March 25, 1884 - July 31, 1947) US Catholic priest and historian, born in Chester, Pennsylvania of Irish parents. He studied for the priesthood at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook PA. He gained his PhD from Louvain University with a dissertation on The English Colleges and Convents in the Catholic Low Countries, 1558–1795. Peter Guilday taught at Catholic University of America (from 1914), and was principal editor of the Catholic Historical Review (from 1915 to 1941), and cofounder of the American Catholic Historical Association (1919). His writings established him as the period's leading scholar in Catholic Church history. In 1924 Guilday was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, in 1935 he was made a domestic prelate of his church by Pope Pius XI.

Works

Life and Times of John Caroll, 1922

Life and Times of John England, 1927

Sources

The Hutchinson Encyclopedia
John Tracy Ellis, "Monsignore Peter Guilday" in The Catholic Historical Review XXXXIII,3 (oct. 1947), 257-268

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 58238913 ISNI: 0000 0000 8137 3781 SUDOC: 160373581

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