Richard Challoner
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Richard Challoner was an English Catholic prelate who served as Vicar Apostolic of the London District during the greater part of the 18th century, and as Titular Bishop of Doberus. In 1738, he publis
Richard Challoner painting
Plaque at 44 Old Gloucester Street, London
Tomb of Bishop Richard Challoner in Westminster Cathedral
Recusancy
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Recusancy was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation.
Richard Challoner
…as a Catholic, although he was not baptized a Roman Catholic until he was about thirteen years old. This was at Warkworth, Northamptonshire, seat of a recusant Roman Catholic family, that of George Holman, whose wife, Lady Anastasia Holman, was a daughter of Blessed William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, a…
William Shakespeare came from a family background of English Catholic recusants.