Peter Guilday

Who was Peter Guilday?

Monsignor Peter Keenan Guilday US Catholic priest and historian, born in Chester, Pennsylvania of Irish parents. He studied for the priesthood at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook PA. He gained his PhD from Louvain University with a dissertation on The English Colleges and Convents in the Catholic Low Countries, 1558–1795. Peter Guilday taught at Catholic University of America, and was principal editor of the Catholic Historical Review, and cofounder of the American Catholic Historical Association. His writings established him as the period's leading scholar in Catholic Church history. In 1924 Guilday was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, in 1935 he was made a domestic prelate of his church by Pope Pius XI.