Peter Amigo

Peter Emmanuel Amigo (26 May 1864, Gibraltar – 1 October 1949) was a Roman Catholic bishop in the Catholic Church in England and Wales. He was the founder of The John Fisher School in 1929.

Peter Emmanuel Amigo
Bishop of Southwark
Diocese	Southwark
See	Southwark
Appointed	12 March 1904
Installed	25 March 1904
Term ended	1 October 1949
Predecessor	Francis Alphonsus Bourne
Successor	Cyril Conrad Cowderoy
Orders
Ordination	25 February 1888
Consecration	25 March 1904 by Francis Alphonsus Bourne
Personal details
Born	(1864-05-26)26 May 1864 Gibraltar
Died	1 October 1949(1949-10-01) (aged 85)
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholic

Biography

He studied at St Edmund's College, Ware, and St. Thomas's, Hammersmith. He was ordained priest on 25 February 1888. He was for a short time at Stoke Newington, then professor at St Edmund's from September 1888 until July 1892.[1]

He was then appointed assistant priest at Hammersmith from September 1892 to June 1896. He was afterwards at Ss Mary and Michael Church, Commercial Road, East London, first as assistant priest, then as rector from June 1896 to April 1901. He was then appointed rector of the mission at Walworth in the Archdiocese of Southwark.[1]

He was consecrated as Bishop of Southwark by Cardinal Francis Bourne on 25 March 1904. Having received the personal title of Archbishop on 18 December 1937, he remained in control of the diocese until his death on 1 October 1949, aged 85.

Bishop Amigo imposed "minor excommunication" on the Modernist priest George Tyrrell and restricted the possibility of a full Catholic burial (partly circumvented by the French Jesuit writer Henri Brémond who in turn was suspended 'a divinis')when he died at Storrington in 1909.

See also

• List of Gibraltarians

Source

Henri Brémond, Maurice Blondel: Correspondance établie, présentée et annotée par André Blanchet, tome 2:le grand dessein de Henri Brémond 1905-1920, Aubier

References

1. Southwark, Catholic Encyclopedia, retrieved July 2011