Edward Ilsley, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdward Ilsley
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham
Date of Birth: 11-May-1838
Date of Death: 13-Jun-1926
Profession: Catholic priest
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Edward Ilsley
- Archbishop Ilsley was born in May 1838.
- He was archbishop of Birmingham from 1911 to 1921 when he retired.
- He died in 1926. In the October 1873, St.
- Bernard's diocesan Seminary was opened at Olton, Warwickshire, of which the first rector was the Rev.
- Edward Ilsley, successively canon and bishop-auxiliary (December 4, 1879). On 17 February, 1888, Dr.
- Ilsley became the second Bishop of Birmingham, and at once took in hand the difficult task of protecting and rescuing the destitute Catholic children of the diocese.
- St.
- Edward's Home for homeless boys was opened at Coleshill (Warwickshire), 6 November, 1906, with branch houses for boys and girls, similarly situated, in various centres, besides a Home for Working Boys and a Night Refuge, both in Birmingham. In July, 1889, Oscott College was closed to lay students and reopened as a Central Seminary for ecclesiastics only.
- In accord with the movement promoted by the early provincial synods of Westminster, Bishop Ullathorne established in 1872 the Birmingham diocesan seminary at Olton, a few miles south of Birmingham.
- He placed the Rev.
- Edward Ilsley (now bishop of the diocese) over it as rector, while he himself personally directed its spirit.
- The institution flourished, though the number of students averaged but twenty.
- Meanwhile Oscott maintained its own school of philosophers and theologians.
- Oscott, like Olton, suffered from financial strain.
- With a bold stroke Bishop Ilsley closed Oscott as a mixed college, sold the seminary buildings and estate, and gathered all his seminarists and teaching staff into the one greater seminary of St.
- Mary's, Oscott.
- The new institution began with thirty-six students in September, 1889, under the rectorship of the bishop. The history of Roman Catholicism in Birmingham since Ullathorne's death is mainly one of expansion.
- One notable and controversial change of policy was made by Edward Ilsley almost immediately after he succeeded Ullathorne.
- Ilsley closed both the public school at Oscott and the diocesan seminary which his predecessor had established at Olton in 1867, and restricted Oscott to theological students from the diocese.
- He was deeply interested in Oscott and remained rector for several years after he became bishop.
- In 1911 Birmingham became an archbishop, with subordinate sees at Clifton, Newport, Plymouth, and Shrewsbury.
- Ilsley was the first archbishop.
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