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The Pontifical Beda College (Italian: Pontificio Collegio Beda) is a Catholic seminary in Rome. It was founded as the Collegio Ecclesiastico at the Palazzo dei Convertendi in 1852 by Pope Pius IX and is intended for older men, often convert clergymen, wishing to prepare for the priesthood.




History


This college was moved in 1854 to the English College to accommodate a larger number of clergymen from England who had joined the Roman Catholic Church from other Christian denominations and wished to prepare for the Catholic priesthood. They came only for four years, because they were seen to have significant experience already. Here the college became known as the Collegio Pio. It also included lifelong Catholics drawn to the priesthood later in life, and priests studying for post-graduate degrees in Rome. Pope Leo XIII issued a new constitution in 1898 and placed the college under the patronage of Bede, the eighth-century Anglo-Saxon monk and scholar. Edward Henry Howard bequeathed to the two colleges his library.
It was decided by the Sacred Congregation of Studies (1917), that it should be completely separated from the Venerable English College, and that it should have a corporate life entirely of its own under a rector and staff of its own and in its own premises. Pending the acquisition of a permanent home, temporary premises were rented in the Prati di Castello from the Polish Hospice. Horatius Kinder Mann was brought from England to be the new rector, and J. C. Richards was appointed vice-rector. The Bede students took up their new quarters on 2 January 1918.
When the First World War ended, the Polish returned to Rome and the Beda became homeless. The community was transferred in 1922 to the Via S. Niccolo da Tolentino close by the Piazza Barberini. The college made progress under the guidance of Mann and his vice-rector McShane.
In 1956 Pope Pius XII provided from the extraterritorial property of the Holy See the land on which the present Beda stands, adjacent to the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. Pope John XXIII formally opened the new building on 20 October 1960.
The Beda remains the responsibility of the Bishops of England and Wales but now receives men from English-speaking countries worldwide.
With plans to relocate the Scots College, it was announced in May 2023 that students of the Scots College would move to Beda College in September 2023, until a permanent location is found.




Notable students


Benedict Williamson, (1868–1948) English architect and priest
Father Thomas Byles (1870–1912), English Catholic priest and passenger of RMS Titanic
J. G. Greig (1871–1958), English cricketer, soldier and Catholic priest
Richard Downey (1881–1953), Archbishop of Liverpool
Alfred Newman Gilbey (1901–1998), Chaplain to Cambridge University
Geoffrey Davey (1906–1975), Australian civil engineer and priest
Gordon Wheeler (1910–1998), Bishop of Leeds
Richard Gagnon (born 1948), Archbishop of Winnipeg
Patrick van der Vorst (born 1971), Belgian-British priest and former art expert and auctioneer.




List of rectors



1852–1864: Louis B. English
1864–1867: Neve
1867–1897: Henry O'Callaghan
1897–1908: Giles [Vice-Rector]
1908–1911: Butt [Vice-Rector]
1911–1917: Thomas George [Vice-Rector]

1918–1928: Horace K. Mann
1928–1961: Charles Duchemin
1961–1972: Jeremiah John Curtin
1972–1978: Brendan Travers
1978–1987: William Mitchell
1987–1991: Walter Drumm
1991–1992: Peter Walton
1992–1998: Brian Dazeley
1998–2015: Roderick Strange
2015–present: Philip Gillespie




References



This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Roman Colleges". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.




External links


Pontifical Beda College Official Website

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