biography
| name: |
Faber, Frederick William
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pronunciation:
[fayber]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1814–63)
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| biography:
| Priest and hymn writer, born in Calverley, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and took Anglican orders, but under the influence of Newman became a Roman Catholic and founded a lay community of converts (the Wilfridians) in 1845. He was ordained priest in 1847, and in 1849 became head of the Oratory which moved to Brompton Road in 1854. He wrote many theological works, but is remembered for his Hymns (1861), which include ‘My God, How Wonderful Thou Art’ and ‘Sweet Saviour, bless us ere we go’. |
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