O Come, All Ye Faithful

3 verses · 2:35 · organ accompaniment · highest note D

Latin words credited to John Francis Wade, mid-1700s; English by Frederick Oakeley, about 1841. The tune’s composer is unproven.

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The Latin words, “Adeste fideles”, are credited to John Francis Wade, an English Catholic who copied church music by hand, because they first appear in manuscripts he signed in the mid-1700s, though this cannot be proved. Frederick Oakeley, then an Anglican priest in London, made the English version about 1841.

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