牛津万灵学院由坎特伯雷大主教亨利·奇切勒建立，国王亨利六世为其正式联合创始人。早在1436年，大主教就开始为他的第二个牛津基金会（第一个是圣伯纳德基金会）做准备，但直到1437年8月的圣斯科拉斯蒂卡日（2月10日）才奠基。从那时起到1443年，奇切勒的学院花费了他约9,500英镑（按当前价格计算，约500万英镑）。其中，超过5,000英镑用于捐赠庄园，主要位于肯特郡和米德尔塞克斯郡，以及贝德福德郡和白金汉郡的其他财产，以及莱斯特郡、北安普敦郡、什罗普郡和威尔士的大量没收的外来修道院土地。

牛津万灵学院与其它牛津学院的不同之处在于它没有自己的学生。每一年，万灵学院都会补充新成员，即邀请牛津大学中最优秀的学生参加由万灵学院组织的一场考试，其中最出色的两名学生将会成为万灵学院的新成员。成为万灵学院的成员在英国被认为是最高的荣誉。

学院是由亨利六世（Henry Chichele）于1438年为纪念反法庭之役去世的战士所建。学院的构架在建立之后都没有再改变过。今天学院是主要一个学术研究机构。

英文版

All Souls College, 牛津布

All Souls College (in full: The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

All Souls is an oddity among Oxford colleges in that it has no students. Its members automatically become Fellows, i.e., academics who are full govern荷兰 members of the College.

Every year, the top finalists of the University are invited to sit the examination for fellowship of the College. About two are elected to fellowship each year. Fellowship of All Souls is thus regarded as one of the highest academic honours in the United Kingdom. These Fellows are known as Prize Fellows, their term of office is seven years and roughly a dozen are at the college at any one 时间 Other categories of fellowship include Senior Research Fellows, Post-Doctoral Research Fellows, Fifty-Pound Fellows (open only to former Fellows no longer holding posts in Oxford) and Distinguished Fellows. There are also many Professorial Fellows who hold their fellowships by 理性 of their University post.

2015年一月为止，有76研究员，23客座研究员，八名誉研究员，以及32名誉（即退休学术）研究员在该学院 积极支持下继续研究。目前研究员中，33位完全由万灵资助（如高级研究研究员，博士后和研究员考试），17位学者通过万灵学院获得牛津大学学者岗位。其余的包括在其他大学的学者、非学者（如律师），这些前研究员已经参与公共生活，目前中担任学院牧师，研究员馆员和Bursars。在非学术研究员在大学治理中发挥重要作用，并帮助连接学术和公共生活，特别是在法律，经济，政治和国际关系学。

通过考试奖学金和博士后奖学金，学院坚定地致力于在学术界实现自己的职业生涯的早期阶段。同时，该学院拥有英国科学院的22名研究员（和另外21名之间的名誉研究员）和伦敦皇家自然知识促进学会三个研究员。

学院与慈善委员会（注册号1138057）注册的慈善机构。

As of January 2015 there are seventy-six Fellows of All Souls, twenty-three Visiting Fellows, eight Honorary Fellows, and thirty-two Emeritus (i.e. retired academic) Fellows, whose continuing research the College actively supports. Of the current Fellows, thirty-three are academics entirely funded by All Souls (as Senior Research Fellows, Post-Doctoral Fellows, and Examination Fellows), SEVENTEEN are academics with 牛津布 University positions attached to All Souls, and the rest include academics at other universities, non-academics (e.g. barristers), former Fellows who have attained distinction in public life, and the College Chaplain, Fellow Librarian, and Bursars. The non-academic Fellows play an important part in the governance of the College and help connect academic and public life, notably in law, economics, and politics and international relations.

Through the Examination Fellowships and Post-Doctoral Fellowships, the College is strongly committed to academics at an early stage of their careers. At the same 时间 the College has twenty-two Fellows of the British Academy (and a further TWENTYONE amongst its Emeritus Fellows), and three Fellows of the Royal Society.

The College is a charity registered with the Charity Commission (Registration number 1138057).