Frederick Richard McManus (born February 8, 1923,

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– died November 27, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American

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and academic, who served as a peritus on the liturgy at the

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. He presided at the first English Mass in the United States in 1964 in

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. He was also a leader in the church in opening up dialogue with the

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, served as dean of

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'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''.

Biography

Early life

Born to Frederick and Mary (née Twomey) McManus, he had a younger brother Charles McManus. He attended

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followed by the

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from 1940-42. He went on to St. John's Seminary in

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and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1947. He was ordained a priest on May 1, 1947.

Education and career

He received the following degrees: JCB (1952), JCL (1953) and JCD (1954), all from

(CUA), where he served as Dean of the School of Canon Law 1967-1973, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies 1974-1983, and Academic Vice President, retiring in 1993 while continuing to teach until 1997 as Professor Emeritus.

Second Vatican Council

Monsignor McManus attended the Second Vatican Council as a peritus on the liturgy and member of the council's Liturgy Commission. He was the primary drafter of sections of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. McManus served two terms as president of the Liturgical Conference. He was also made director of the Committee on the Liturgical Apostolate in 1965

Associations and ecumenism

Msgr. McManus served as president of the Liturgical Conference from 1959–62 and 1964-65. He was key in establishing the Federation of Diocesan Commissions (FDLC) in 1968. He was a member of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) from its inception in 1963 throughout decades of translation. He helped promote dialogue between the Roman Catholic and

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. He consulted for the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, was a member of the Catholic-Orthodox Bilateral Commission and served on the International Joint Commission for Catholic-Orthodox Theological Dialogue.

Death

He died in

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, Massachusetts on November 27, 2005, at age 82.

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20110719153032/http://www.naal-liturgy.org/memorials/fmcmanus.html * http://dsjliturgy.blogspot.com/2005/12/keep-in-mind-msgr-frederick-r-mcmanus.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20101215094244/http://fdlc.org/Awards_McManusAbout.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Mcmanus, Frederick R. 1923 births 2005 deaths People from Lynn, Massachusetts College of the Holy Cross alumni Boston College High School alumni Catholic University of America School of Canon Law alumni 20th-century American Roman Catholic priests Catholic University of America School of Canon Law faculty Liturgists American Roman Catholic religious writers Burials in Massachusetts Catholics from Massachusetts 21st-century American Roman Catholic priests