John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman, CO was born in London on February 21, 1801, and died in Edgbaston on August 11, 1890. He was an English Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism, later appointed cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1879. He was beatified on September 19, 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI and later canonized by Pope Francis on October 13, 2019.
He studied at Trinity College , Oxford (1816) and Oriel College (1822) and was ordained a priest of the Church of England. He later became one of the leaders of the "Oxford Movement". He considered the Anglicanism of his time to be excessively Protestant and secularized and considered Catholicism to be corrupted in relation to the origins of Christianity. He sought a "middle way" between the two, and, researching the beginnings of the Catholic Church and Christianity in general, ended up converting to Catholicism.
After his conversion to Catholicism (1845), he was ordained a priest of the Catholic Church in Rome (1847), opened and directed an oratory of St. Philip Neri in Birmingham, and was also rector of the Catholic University of Ireland (1854).