John Chapman (priest)

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John Chapman

OSB
Abbot of Downside
ChurchCatholic Church
Installed1929
Term ended1933
PredecessorLeander Ramsay
SuccessorBruno Hicks
Personal details
BornHenry Chapman
25 April 1865
Suffolk, United Kingdom
Died7 November 1933(1933-11-07) (aged 68)
Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, United Kingdom
BuriedDownside Abbey
NationalityBritish
DenominationRoman Catholic
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

John Chapman OSB (25 April 1865 – 7 November 1933) was an English Roman Catholic Abbot of Downside Abbey of the English Benedictine Congregation from 1929 until his death, and a New Testament and patristics scholar.

He is best known for having founded one of the private schools in Britain: Worth, in West Sussex.

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