Edward Ambrose Burgis was an English Dominican historian and theologian.
Biography
He was born in England c. 1673. When a young man he left the Church of England, of which his father was a minister, and became a Catholic, joining the Dominican Order at Rome, where he passed his noviceship in the convent of Saints John and Paul on the Coelian Hill, then occupied by the English Dominicans. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican The Order of Preachers ( Latin: Ordo Praedicatorum) after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is The Caelian Hill (Latin Mons Caelius, Italian Celio) is one of the famous Seven Hills of Rome. After his religious profession (1696) he was sent to Naples to the Dominican school of St. Naples ( Napoli, Neapolitan: Nàpule) is a historic City in southern Italy, the Capital of the Thomas, where he displayed unusual mental ability.
Upon the completion of his studies he was sent to the Flemish university of Louvain, where for nearly thirty years he taught philosophy, theology, Sacred Scripture and church history in the College of St. Leuven ( French: Louvain, often used in English German: Löwen) is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Thomas, established in 1697 for the Dominicans of England through the bequest of Cardinal Thomas Howard, O.P. He was the rector of the college from 1715 to 1720 and again from 1724 to 1730. The Order of Preachers ( Latin: Ordo Praedicatorum) after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is The word rector ("ruler" from the Latin regere and Rector meaning "Teacher" In Latin has a number of different meanings but all of them indicate an academic In the latter year he was elected to the office of provincial superior; in 1741 he became Prior of the English Dominican convent at Bornhem, and in 1746 he was appointed Vicar-General of the English Dominicans in Belgium. A provincial superior is a major superior of a Religious order acting under the order's Superior general and exercising a general supervision over all the local superiors Prior is a Title, derived from the Latin adjective for 'earlier first' with several notable uses Bornem (old spelling Bornhem) is a Municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. A vicar general (often abbreviated VG) is the principal deputy of the bishop of a diocese for the exercise of administrative authority He died in Brussels on 27 April, 1747.
Works
He published a number of pamphlets of considerable merit containing theses written in Latin on Scriptural, theological and historical subjects. It was as a writer of English that he excelled, especially along historical lines; his style is easy and pleasing, and he is accurate in his statements. In 1712 he published in London "The Annals of the Church", a volume embracing the period from A. D. 34 to 300. As stated in the preface it was his intention to bring the annals down to his own time in a work of nine volumes, but he abandoned this plan, rewrote the first period and published "The Annals of the Church from the Death of Christ", in five octavo volumes (London, 1738), the first work of the kind written in English by Catholic or Protestant. The book entitles "An Introduction to the Catholic Faith", by Father Thomas Worthington, O. P. (London, 1709), was completed by Father Burgis, although his name does not appear in connection with it.
Source
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia
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