G. Ward, who was not even in holy orders, to be
Professor of Theology at St. Edmund's College-- the chief
seminary for young priests, in which the ancient traditions of
Douay were still flourishing. Ward was an ardent Papalist and his
appointment indicated clearly enough that in Wiseman's opinion
there was too little of the Italian spirit in the English
community. The uneasiness of the Old Catholics was becoming
intense, when they were reassured by Wiseman's appointing as his
co-adjutor and successor his intimate friend, Dr. Errington, who
was created on the occasion Archbishop of Trebizond in partibus
infidelium. Not only was Dr. Errington an Old Catholic of the
most rigid type, he was a man of extreme energy, whose influence
was certain to be great; and, in any case, Wiseman was growing
old, so that before very long it seemed inevitable that the
policy of the diocese would be in proper hands. Such was the
position of affairs when, two years after Errington's
appointment, Manning became head of the Oblates of St. Charles
and Provost of the Chapter of Westminster.
The Archbishop of Trebizond had been for some time growing more
and more suspicious of Manning's influence, and this sudden
elevation appeared to justify his worst fears. But his alarm was
turned to fury when he learned that St. Edmund's College, from
which he had just succeeded in removing the obnoxious W.
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