Person DS/UK/241 Caraman; Philip (1911-1998); Jesuit Priest Caraman Philip 1911-1998 Jesuit Priest Male Born 11 August 1911, London. Entered the English Province of the Society of Jesus 9 October 1930. Ordained as a Roman Catholic priest 12 September 1945. Final Vows in the Society of Jesus 8 September 1979. Died 6 May 1998, Brushford, Somerset.

Philip Caraman was born at Golders Green, London, in 1911 and educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, before joining the noviceship at Roehampton, London. After vows her remained a further two years studying humanities before going to Heythrop, Oxon, for philosophy. He then taught for two years at Corby School, Sunderland, before he studied history at Campion Hall, Oxford. In 1942 he returned to Heythrop for theology and was ordained at Farm Street in 1945. In 1946 he moved to 31 Farm Street as Editor of Letters and Notices before doing tertianship at St Beuno’s, 1947-48. He then returned to Farm Street taking over the Editorship of The Month, a post he held for the next 15 years. There followed two years at Claver House, London, writing and concentrating on the vice-postulation of the English Martyrs. Between 1965 and 1968 he was mainly in Oslo, Norway, writing and working in a parish. Writing was to be his main apostolate for the remainder of his life and this he combined with pastoral work at various places: Professor of Church History at St Edmund’s College, Ware (1968-71); Trellis House, Tisbury (1972-75); Trondheim, Norway, studying Norwegian and at St Olav’s Kirke, Tonsberg, where he was parish priest (1976-79). In 1979 he returned to the UK and was on the staff of St Patrick’s, Wapping, London, until he moved to Southwell House, London, 1981. His las appointment was in 1986 as Parish Priest at St Stanislaus Parish, Dulverton, Somerset. During his time there his health caused continuing concern and in early 1998 he was moved to a nursing home in nearby Brushford, where he died, 6 May. Vice-Postulator of the Cause of the Blessed Martyrs of England, 1959-1966. Member of the English Province of the Society of Jesus Catalogus Defunctorum 1986-2000 (Society of Jesus); Chaplains' Weekly, 8 June 1998 (no. 2175) National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes Archives 29/06/2010 CURIA\mallen 11/01/2022 bea5c5e8-895d-4ae8-903e-906a7663968d