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Roman Catholic Bishop Of Plymouth
The Bishop of Plymouth is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth in the Province of Southwark, England.''Diocese of Plymouth'' at GCatholic.org.com. Retrieved on 14 June 2011. The diocese covers an area of and consists of the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. The is in the City of Plymouth where the bishop's |
Plymouth
Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west. Plymouth's early history extends to the Bronze Age when a first settlement emerged at Mount Batten. This settlement continued as a trading post for the Roman Empire, until it was surpassed by the more prosperous village of Sutton founded in the ninth century, now called Plymouth. In 1588, an English fleet based in Plymouth intercepted and defeated the Spanish Armada. In 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers departed Plymouth for the New World and established Plymouth Colony, the second English settlement in what is now the United States of America. During the English Civil War, the town was held by the Roundhead, Parliamentarians and was besieged between 1642 and 1646. Throughout the Industrial Revolution, Plymouth grew as a commercial shipping port, handling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Herald
The ''Catholic Herald'' is a London-based Roman Catholic monthly newspaper and starting December 2014 a magazine, published in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and, formerly, the United States. It reports a total circulation of about 21,000 copies distributed to Roman Catholic parishes, wholesale outlets, and postal subscribers and describes itself as "a bold and influential voice in the church since 1888, standing up for traditional Catholic culture and values". History ''The Catholic Herald'' was established as a weekly newspaper in 1888. It was first owned and edited by Derry-born Charles Diamond until his death in 1934. After his death the paper was bought by Ernest Vernor Miles, a recent convert to Roman Catholicism and head of the New Catholic Herald Ltd. Miles appointed Count Michael de la Bédoyère as editor, a post he held until 1962. De la Bédoyère's news editor was writer Douglas Hyde, also a convert who arrived from the Communist ''Daily Worker''.Kev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Patrick Barrett
John Patrick Barrett (31 October 1878 – 2 November 1946) was a British clergyman who held high office in the Roman Catholic Church. He was born on 31 October 1878 in Liverpool, England. He was educated at St Edward's College, Everton, and at the University of London (he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) there, a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) later, and a Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the Pontifical Gregorian University). He was ordained a priest on 19 June 1906 at Upholland, Skelmersdale, for the Archdiocese of Liverpool. After a period as a priest, he was elevated to the episcopacy as Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham in 1927 and was appointed the fifth Bishop of Plymouth on 7 June 1929; he was enthroned on 31 July and continued in the post until his death. When his house was destroyed in an air raid in 1941, during the Second World War, he moved into a nearby convent, where he died suddenly but peacefully on 2 November 1946. During Barrett's time as bishop, several new places o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Joseph Keily
John Joseph Keily (1854–1928) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. The son of Bartholomew and Margaret Keily,"Keily, John", ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U198707 accessed 13 March 2011 he was born on 23 June 1854 in Limerick, Ireland. He was ordained a priest on 6 May 1877 before being elevated to the episcopate as Bishop of Plymouth on 21 April 1911, a post he held until his death on 23 September 1928; at the age of 74. He was buried at St Augustine's Priory Cemetery, Plymouth. On 13 December 1998 he was re-interred in the Lady Chapel vault at Plymouth Cathedral. St Boniface's Catholic College in Plymouth has a House named after him. See also *St Boniface's Catholic College St Boniface's Catholic College is a secondary school for boys, under the direction and trustees of the Roman Catholic Community in the Plymouth area in the South West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Tiberias
The Diocese of Tiberias was a significant Latin Catholic bishopric in the Crusader state Principality of Galilee, a major direct vassal of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, with see in Tiberias.Richard, Jean (1999) ''The Crusades c. 1071-c 1291'', Cambridge University Press, p 71 It is now a titular see."Tiberias (Titular See)" ''''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Titular Episcopal See of Tiberias" ''GCatholic.org.'' Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 |
Coadjutor Bishop
A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) is a bishop in the Catholic, Anglican, and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese. The coadjutor (literally, "co-assister" in Latin) is a bishop himself, although he is also appointed as vicar general. The coadjutor bishop is, however, given authority beyond that ordinarily given to the vicar general, making him co-head of the diocese in all but ceremonial precedence. In modern times, the coadjutor automatically succeeds the diocesan bishop upon the latter's retirement, removal, or death. Catholic Church In the Catholic Church, a coadjutor is a bishop with papal appointment as an immediate collaborator of the diocesan bishop in the governance of a diocese, with authority to substitute for the diocesan bishop in his absence and right to automatic succession to the diocesan see upon death, resignation, or transfer of the incumbent diocesan bishop. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Maurice Graham
Charles Maurice Graham (1834–1912) was a British clergyman who held high office in the Roman Catholic Church. Life Graham was born 5 April 1834 at Mhow, India. He was educated at Sacred Heart College at Prior Park and the English College, Rome. He was ordained in 1857, and two years later became secretary to the bishop and treasurer of the Diocese of Plymouth. He was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Plymouth and Titular Bishop of Cisamus on 25 September 1891, and succeeded as diocesan Bishop of Plymouth on 25 October 1902. He retired on 16 March 1911 and took the title Bishop of Tiberias ''in partibus''. He died in Hayle, Cornwall on 2 September 1912. Bishop Graham wrote the article on the "Diocese of Plymouth" for the ''Catholic Encyclopedia The ''Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church'' (also referred to as the ''Old Catholic Encyclopedia'' and the ''Original Catholic Enc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vaughan (bishop)
William Joseph Vaughan (14 February 1814– 25 October 1902) was a British clergyman who held high office in the Roman Catholic Church as the second bishop of Plymouth. He was born on 14 February 1814 in London, England, the second son of William Vaughan, of an old ''recusant'' (Roman Catholic) family, the Vaughans of Courtfield, Herefordshire. Educated at Stonyhurst, Oscott, and St. Acheul, in France, he was ordained a priest on 10 March 1838 at Prior Park. In 1845 he was appointed president of Prior Park College, but was moved to Clifton Cathedral three years later. He was elevated to the episcopate as Bishop of Plymouth on 10 July 1855, a post he held until his death. It is to him that the diocese of Plymouth owes its first organisation and consolidation. In 1862 he was named assistant at the Pontifical throne. The 60th Anniversary of his priesthood was celebrated in March 1898, when he received a congratulatory letter from Pope Leo XIII. His health failing, he moved i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coadjutor Archbishop
The term coadjutor (or coadiutor, literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence. These include: * Coadjutor bishop, or Coadjutor archbishop * Coadjutor vicar, or Coadjutor apostolic vicar * Coadjutor eparch, or Coadjutor archeparch * Coadjutor exarch, or Coadjutor apostolic exarch Overview The office is ancient. "Coadjutor", in the 1883 ''Catholic Dictionary'', says: Another source identifies three kinds of coadjutors: :(1) Temporal and revocable. :(2) Perpetual and irrevocable. :(3) Perpetual, with the right of future succession.''The Law of the Church: A Cyclopedia of Canon Law for English-speaking Countries'', Ethelred Luke Taunton, 1906, page 204. It describes: See also *Bishop (other) *Vicar (other) *Exarch (other) An exarch was a military governor within the Byzantine Empire and still is a high p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Westminster
The Catholic Diocese of Westminster is an archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in England. The diocese consists of most of London north of the River Thames and west of the River Lea, the borough of Spelthorne (in Surrey), and the county of Hertfordshire, which lies immediately to London's north. The diocese is led by the Archbishop of Westminster, who serves as pastor of the mother church, Westminster Cathedral, as well as the metropolitan bishop of the ecclesiastical Province of Westminster. Since the re-establishment of the English Catholic dioceses in 1850, each Archbishop of Westminster—including the incumbent, Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols—has been created a cardinal by the Pope in consistory, often as the only cardinal in England, and is now the 43rd of English cardinals since the 12th century. It is also customary for the Archbishop of Westminster to be elected President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales providing a degree of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Errington (bishop)
George Errington (1804–1886), the second son of Thomas Errington and Katherine (Dowdall) of Clints Hall, Richmond, Yorkshire, was a Roman Catholic churchman. Life He was a boyhood friend of Nicholas Wiseman, the future Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster in 1850. Although two years behind Wiseman, they were both students at Ushaw and then at the English College, Rome. He was ordained priest in Rome on 22 December 1827. In 1828 he was appointed Vice-Rector of the English College, where Wiseman had been appointed Rector. Wiseman became a bishop in England in 1840, in 1843 he got Errington appointed as Director of Studies at St Mary's College, Oscott, of which Wiseman was President, and which both left in 1847. He was consecrated first Bishop of Plymouth on 25 July 1851, having previously been rector of the church of St. John the Evangelist in Salford. In February 1854 he held a synod at Ugbrooke Park, and among his synodal acts, established a clerical conference with its d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
