Name Peter Guilday | ||
Died July 31, 1947, Washington, D.C., United States | ||
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