Frederick R. McManus
Roman Catholic priest and academic
Died when: 82 years 292 days (993 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Frederick Richard McManus (born February 8, 1923, Lynn, Massachusetts – died November 27, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American Catholic priest and academic, who served as a peritus on the liturgy at the Second Vatican Council.
He presided at the first English Mass in the United States in 1964 in St.Louis, Missouri.He was also a leader in the church in opening up dialogue with the Eastern Orthodox Church, served as dean of The Catholic University of America's School of Canon Law, and published eleven books on the liturgy as well as hundreds of popular articles, spending 40 years as editor of The Jurist: Studies in Church Law and Ministry.
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