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John Henry Newman, British cardinal Product:Greetings card Birmingham City 4-0 BurnleyJohn Henry Newman, British cardinal, late 19th century. Newman (1801 1890) was a leading priest in the Church of England whose conversion to Catholicism was a major event of the 1840s. Newman was a popular speaker and a scholar at Oxford, making his conversion all the more welcome to Catholics and shocking to Anglicans. Newman had been ordained as an Anglican priest in 1825; he was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1847, and in 1879 he was created a