Charles Anselm Bolton

Charles Anselm Bolton (born , obituary published 2 December 1970) was for many years a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, being the Priest of Salford Diocese in 1950, as well as author of numerous books and articles, mostly relating to the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

He was born at Longridge, a small town and civil parish in the borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. His education was continental, beginning with a Bachelor's Degree from Belgium's Louvain, and with theological diplomas from the Institut Catholique de Paris and from Rome's Collegio S. Anselmo.

He was a professor of history and of the English, French, Russian and German languages at St Bede's College, Manchester, where he taught for over 20 years. A 1963 advertisement in the Mansfield, Ohio News-Journal promoted a series of sermons by Bolton, described as "a Modern Martin Luther" who had been ordained to Roman Catholic priesthood in 1930 and converted to evangelical faith in 1962, and the next year an advertisement in The Boston Globe promoted a sermon by Bolton as "the amazing story of a religious leader whose life was changed by reading the Jansenist Reformers."

He died in Pontypridd, Glamorgan at the age of 66.

Writings A Catholic memorial of Lord Halifax and Cardinal Mercier. 1935. Salford Diocese and its Catholic past: a survey. 1950. "Beyond the Ecumenical: Pan-deism?" in Christianity Today, 1963, page 21. Church reform in 18th century Italy: (The synod of Pistoia, 1786). 1969.