Anthony Champney
Anthony Champney was an English Roman Catholic priest and controversialist.
Life
He studied at Reims and Rome. As priest he was imprisoned at Wisbech Castle, and was active against the Jesuits, acting later for the Appellant Clergy in Rome.Afterwards he was appointed president of Arras College near Paris, becoming doctor of theology and Fellow of the Sorbonne. He was vice-president of Douai College, from 1619 to 1625, and from 1628 until he returned to England, where he died some time after 1643.
Works
He published:- An Answer to a Letter of a Jesuited Gentleman ;
- A Manual of Controversies;
- A Treatise of the Vocation of Bishops, a reply to the Consecration of Bishops in the Church of England of Francis Mason
- Mr. Pilkington his Parallela Disparalled
- An Answer to a Pamphlet titled 'The Fisher catched in his own Net'. ;
- Defence of the Appendix to the Antidote
- Legatum Fratribus suis Cleri Anglicani Sacerdotibus Testamento relictum