WISEMAN, wiz'insn, Nicholas Patrick Stephen, English Roman Catholic prelate: b. Se%ille Spain, 3 Aug. 1802; d. London, 15 Feb. 1865. He was of Irish parentage, was brought to Waterford, Ireland, at his father's death in 1805 and was educated at the Roman Catholic t ollege, Ushaw, near Durham, and the English ( ()liege at Rome. He took orders in 1825, be came professor of Oriental languages in the Roman University in 1827 and in IRA' rector of the English College. He returned to England in 1835 and there delivered in 1836 at Saint Mary Moorfields, London, a series of lectures on 'The Principal Doctrines and Practices of the Catholic Church,' which attracted much attention. He was consecrated titular bishop of Melipotamos in 1840 and was made arch Is.hop of Westminster and cardinal in 1850. This ecclesiastical appointment caused great excitement among English ultra-Protestants, who termed it a 'papal aggression' and re sulted in the 'Ecclesiastical Titles Act' pro lobiling the assumption of local ecclesiastical titles by Roman Catholics, which was not re valet! until 1872. In the midst of the excite
ment put forth a temperate addr( ss splaittiniz the constitummal of Roman t ,t114,11, entitled • Ali Appeal to the k,asott atld Ferlitii; Ihr People the Subject of the Hierarchy' (18;0), which N% as serf' instrumental in bringing alsitit a better state of feeling. In 1836 he established with O'Connell the Dublin Review and was a regu lar contributor to it. He was the author of 'Lectures on the Connection between Science and Revealed Religion' (MI6); 'Letters on Catholic Unity' (1842); 'Papal Supremacy' (1850); (1854); 'The Four Last Popes' (1858), etc. Consult Fitzgerald, 'Fifty Years of Catholic Progress' (London 1900); Houghton, 'Monographs' (1875); Thureau 1)angin, Paul, 'English Catholic Revival in the Nineteenth Century' (Eng. trans. by W \Vil berforce, rev. ed. 2 vols., New York 1916); Ward, 'Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman' (1897; new ed., New York 1900); id., 'Ten Personal Studies' (London 1908); White, G., 'Memoir' (1865).