George Tyrrell

For the Union Army Medal of Honor recipient, see George William Tyrrell. For the British geologist and glaciologist, see George Walter Tyrrell. For the British mathematician, physicist, radio engineer and parapsychologist, see George Nugent Merle Tyrrell.

The Reverend

George Tyrrell

SJ
Orders
Ordination1891
Personal details
Born(1861-02-06)6 February 1861
Dublin, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died15 July 1909(1909-07-15) (aged 48)
Storrington, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DenominationRoman Catholic, Latin Church
Occupation
  • Priest
  • theologian
  • scholar

George Tyrrell SJ (6 February 1861 – 15 July 1909) was an Anglo-Irish Catholic priest and a highly controversial theologian and scholar. A convert from Anglicanism, Tyrrell joined the Jesuit order in 1880. His attempts to adapt Catholic theology to modern culture and science made him a key figure in the debate over modernism in the Catholic Church beginning in the late 19th-century. During the anti-modernist crusade led by Pope Pius X, Tyrrell was expelled from the Jesuit Order in 1906 and excommunicated in 1908.