John Cuthbert Hedley

Who was John Cuthbert Hedley?

John Cuthbert Hedley was a British Benedictine and writer who held high offices in the Roman Catholic Church.

Born in Morpeth, Northumberland, he was educated at Ampleforth College. He was professed a member of the Order of Saint Benedict in 1855 and ordained a priest of the order on 9 October 1862. He was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Newport and Menevia and Titular Bishop of Caesaropolis on 22 July 1873. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 29 September 1873, the principal consecrator was Archbishop Henry Edward Manning of Westminster, with bishops Brown and Chadwick as co-consecrators. Hedley acted as editor of the Dublin Review, before appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Newport and Menevia on 18 February 1881. His episcopal title was changed to Bishop of Newport in 1895.

He published a number of works:

⁕The Christian Inheritance: Set Forth in Sermons

⁕Lex Levitarum: Or, Preparation for the cure of souls

⁕Lex Levitarum with the Regula Pastoralis

⁕The Light of Life: Set Forth in Sermons

⁕Our Divine Saviour and other Discourses

⁕A Retreat 33 Discourses with meditation for the Use of the Clergy, Religious, and Others