When did the Oxford movement begin at the University of Oxford?

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St. John Henry Newman English prelate, theologian, and poet John Henry Newman converted to Roman Catholicism in 1845. He was made a cardinal in 1879.

The Oxford movement began at the University of Oxford in 1833.123

The movement was a High Church initiative within the Church of England that sought to emphasize the "catholic" elements of the English religious tradition and reform the church in response to the changing relationship between the state and the institution during the early 1830s. St. John Henry Newman served as the movement's effective organizer and intellectual leader, notably through his work editing and contributing to the Tracts for the Times, which were published between 1833 and 1841.13