Nicholas Wiseman
diocesan Bishop, philosopher and theologian (1802–1865)
Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman (3 August 1802 – 15 February 1865) was an English Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Westminster upon the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850. He was made a cardinal in 1850.
Quotes about Wiseman
edit- Dr. Wiseman was particularly pleased by the conversion of a Mr. Morris, who, as he said, was ‘the author of the essay, which won the prize on the best method of proving Christianity to the Hindoos.’
- Quoted in Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918), "Cardinal Manning", pt. 3
