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	'''Luke Rivington''' (May 1838 in [[London]] – 30 May 1899 in London) was an English [[Anglican]] and later [[Roman Catholic]] priest and controversy writer.		'''Luke Rivington''' (May 1838 in [[London]] – 30 May 1899 in London) was an English [[Anglican]] and later [[Roman Catholic]] priest and controversy writer.

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'''Luke Rivington''' (May 1838 in [[London]] – 30 May 1899 in London) was an English [[Anglican]] and later [[Roman Catholic]] priest and controversy writer.

==Life==

He was the fourth son of Francis Rivington, a London publisher, and a collateral descendant of [[James Rivington]], Loyalist New York publisher during the [[American Revolution]]. He was educated at [[Highgate Grammar School]] and [[Magdalen College, Oxford]].<ref name=Burton>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13094a.htm Burton, Edwin. "Luke Rivington." The Catholic Encyclopedia] Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 25 February 2019</ref> After his ordination as an Anglican clergyman in 1862, he became curate of [[St Clement's Church, Oxford|St. Clement's, Oxford]]. His sisters Mary and Rita lived with him at Oxford.

In 1867 Rivington left St. Clement's for [[All Saints, Margaret Street]], London, where he attracted attention as a preacher. His sister Mary then joined the [[Society of All Saints Sisters of the Poor]]. Shortly after being professed, Sister Mary Christina died of typhoid fever, contracted while nursing at University College Hospital. Rivington attended his sister during her illness.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XNS_KBCil2AC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=Luke+Rivington&source=bl&ots=VRZVKfOcdP&sig=ACfU3U2iGQH7QgKLoAGZIjxEksTFudP-uA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSi9ik7tfgAhUymeAKHRl_BOU4KBDoATAAegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=Luke%20Rivington&f=false ''All Saints Sisters of the Poor: An Anglican Sisterhood in the Nineteenth Century'', (Susan Mumm, ed.), Boydell & Brewer, 2001, p. 28] {{ISBN|9780851157283}}</ref> Failing in his efforts to found a religious community at [[Stoke, Staffordshire]], he joined the [[Cowley Fathers]] and became superior of their house in [[Bombay]].<ref name=Burton/>

Becoming unsettled in his religious convictions he visited [[Rome, Italy|Rome]], where in 1888 he was received into the Catholic Church. His ordination to the Catholic priesthood took place on 21 September 1889.<ref>[https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/ncd/l/luke-rivington.html "Luke Rivington", ''New Catholic Dictionary'', 1910]</ref> He returned to England and settled in [[Bayswater]], not undertaking any parochial work, but devoting himself to preaching, hearing confessions, and writing controversial works.<ref name=Burton/>

In 1897, [[Pope Leo XIII]] conferred on him an honorary doctorate in divinity. During his latter years he lived near St. James Church, Spanish Place.

==Works==

His works of controversy included:

*"Authority; or a plain reason for joining the Church of Rome" (1888);
*"Dust", a letter to the Rev. [[Charles Gore]] on his book "Roman Catholic Claims" (1888);
*"Dependence; or the insecurity of the Anglican Position" (1889);
*"The Primitive Church and the See of Peter" (1894);
*"Anglican Fallacies; or Lord Halifax on Reunion" (1895);
*"Rome and England or Ecclesiastical Continuity" (1897);
*"The Roman Primacy A.D. 430-51" (1899) which was practically a new edition of "The Primitive Church and the See of Peter".

He also wrote several pamphlets and brought out a new edition of [[John Milner (bishop)|John Milner]]'s "End of Religious Controversy". This was for the [[Catholic Truth Society]] of which he was long a member of the committee.

His pamphlets include:
*"Primitive and Roman" (1894) a reply to the notice of his book "The Primitive Church" in the "Church Quarterly Review";
*"The Conversion of Cardinal Newman" (1896);
*"Tekel" (1897) in which he criticized the reply of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to Pope Leo XIII after the condemnation of Anglican Orders.

==References==
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;Attribution
*{{Catholic|wstitle=Luke Rivington}} The entry cites:
**''[[The Tablet]]'' (3 and 10 June 1899);
**''Catholic Book Notes'' (15 June 1899);
**[[Joseph Gillow]], ''Bibl. Dict. Cath.'';
**''[[Annual Register]]'' (London, 1899)

==External links==
*{{worldcat id|lccn-no97-66384}}

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