HISTORY

Fr. William Wizeman, s.j., grew up on a dairy farm in Palmyra, New York, near Rochester, one of seven children. After attending Fordham University, he entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1987 and was ordained in 1998 at St. Ignatius Loyola Church here.

Past service includes teaching at Loyola School in New York City and working in parishes in England and Nigeria, as a hospital chaplain, and with the homeless and mentally disabled.

Fr. Wizeman's doctorate in theology at Oxford University focused on the Protestant and Catholic Reformations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His interests include the spirituality, music, and painting of the medieval, renaissance, and romantic periods and nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.

Publications:

"The Virgin Mary in the Reign of Mary Tudor," in Studies in Church History: The Church and Mary, ed. Robert Swanson, Boydell & Brewer, 2004, pp. 239-248.

"The Pope, the Saints, and the Dead: Uniformity of Doctrine in Carraza's Catechismo and the Printed Works of the Marian Theologians," in Reforming Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor: The Achievement of Friar Bartolomé Carranza, ed. John Edwards and Ronald Truman, Ashgate, 2005.

"The Theology and Spirituality of a Marian Bishop: The Pastoral and Polemical Sermons of Thomas Watson," in The Church of Mary Tudor, ed. Eamon Duffy, Ashgate, 2005.

The Theology and Spirituality of Mary Tudor's Church: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700, Ashgate, 2006. Click here for more information.

"Martyrs and Anti-Martyrs in Mary Tudor's Church," in Martyrs and Martyrdom in Early Modern England, ed. Thomas Freeman and Thomas Mayer, Boydell & Brewer, 2007.

"Re-Imagining the Marian Catholic Church," Recusant History, Vol. 28, No. 3 (May 2007), pp. 353-364.