James Archer (preacher)


James Archer, D.D. was an English Roman Catholic preacher.

Life

The son of Peter Archer and his wife Bridget Lahey, he attended Douai College from 1769, and was ordained in 1780, the year of the Gordon Riots. He shortly started to preach in London.
Archer was chaplain to the Bavarian minister in London, until 1826. He was created D.D. by Pope Pius VII on 24 August 1821, at the same time as John Lingard. Bishop Milner, in a pastoral, denounced Archer's sermons, which were conciliatory in tone, and forbade them to be publicly read in the chapels of his district.
Archer continued to preach to crowded audiences, and his pulpit eloquence was greatly admired, though it appears to have been somewhat stilted and artificial, according to the fashion set by Dr. Hugh Blair. Charles Butler, writing in 1822 of his sermons, remarks:

Publications