Fisher House, Cambridge
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Fisher House is the Catholic chaplaincy for members of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1895 on the instructions of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, when Pope Leo XIII officially allowed Catholics to study at Oxford and Cambridge. Since 1924, the chaplaincy has been situated in a former inn on Guildhall Street in the centre of Cambridge. The chaplaincy's patron is St John Fisher, a Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, who is venerated as one of the first Catholic Martyrs of the English Reformation: it is known as Fisher House in his honour.
