Anthony Champney was an English Roman Catholic priest and controversialist.

Life

He studied at Reims

Reims

Reims , a city in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, lies east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire....

 (1590) and Rome

Rome

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 (1593). As priest he was imprisoned at Wisbech Castle

Wisbech Castle

Wisbech castle was a motte-and-bailey castle built to fortify Wisbech, in the Fenland area of Cambridgeshire, England by William I in 1072. The Norman castle, reputedly was destroyed during a devastating flood of 1236, the original design and layout is still unknown.In the 15th century repairs were...

, and was active against the Jesuits, acting later for the Appellant Clergy in Rome (1602).

Afterwards he was appointed president of Arras College

Arras College

Arras College was a Catholic foundation in Paris, a house of higher studies associated with the University of Paris, set up in 1611. It was intended for English priests, and had a function as a House of Writers, or apologetical college...

 near Paris, becoming doctor of theology and Fellow of the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

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. He was vice-president of Douai College, from 1619 to 1625, and from 1628 till he returned to England, where he died some time after 1643.

Works

He published:

• An Answer to a Letter of a Jesuited Gentleman (1601);
• A Manual of Controversies(1614);
• A Treatise of the Vocation of Bishops (1616), a reply to the Consecration of Bishops in the Church of England (1613) of Francis Mason
  Francis Mason (archdeacon)
  Francis Mason was an English churchman, archdeacon of Norfolk and author of Of the Consecration of the Bishops in the Church of England , a defence of the Church of England and the first serious rebuttal of the Nag's Head Fable put about as denigration of Matthew Parker and Anglican...
  
  
• Mr. Pilkington his Parallela Disparalled (1620)
• An Answer to a Pamphlet (by D. Featley) intitled 'The Fisher catched in his own Net'. (1623);
• Defence of the Appendix to the Antidote (before 1624)
• Legatum Fratribus suis Cleri Anglicani Sacerdotibus Testamento relictum (in Bishop Smith's Monita)

His "History of Queen Elizabeth" (Annales Elizabethae Reginae) is still in manuscript. Formerly, as stated by Joseph Gillow

Joseph Gillow

Joseph Gillow was an English Roman Catholic antiquary and bio-bibliographer, "the Plutarch of the English Catholics"....

, Thompson Cooper

Thompson Cooper

Thompson Cooper was an English journalist, man of letters, and compiler of reference works. He became a specialist in biographical information, and is noted as the most prolific contributor to the Victorian era Dictionary of National Biography, for which he wrote 1423 entries.-Life:Thompson Cooper...

, Thomas Francis Knox

Thomas Francis Knox

Father Francis Knox Father Francis Knox Father Francis Knox (born as Thomas Francis Knox; 24 December 1822 — 20 March 1882, LondonKnox, whose profile in the claims he was born in County Armagh, not Brussels, was an Anglo-Irish ultramontane Roman Catholic priest and author, known for his historical...

, etc., it was preserved in the archives of the Old Chapter

Old Chapter

The Old Chapter was the body in effective control of the Roman Catholic Church in England, from 1623 to 1850 .-Origin:...

; from 1879 it has been in the Westminster Diocesan Archives. There are also some other works in manuscript.

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