Cyril Edward Restieaux (25 February 1910 – 27 February 1996) was Ordinary of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth The Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth is a Latin Church Roman Catholic diocese in England. The episcopal see is in the city of Plymouth, Devon, where the bishop's seat (cathedra) is located at the Cathedral Church of St Mary and St Boniface. H ...

in the

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from 9 April 1955 to 19 November 1985.

Life

Cyril Edward Restieaux was born in

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, and ordained as a priest on 1 November 1932 in Rome.Larsen, Chris. ''Catholic Bishops of Great Britain'', Sacristy Press, 2016, p. 150
/ref> He was appointed Bishop of Plymouth on 9 April 1955 and was consecrated bishop on 14 June 1955 at Plymouth by Francis Grimshaw,

Archbishop of Birmingham The Archbishop of Birmingham heads the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham in England. As such he is the metropolitan archbishop of the Province of Birmingham. The archdiocese covers an area of and spans of the counties of Oxfordshire, S ...

; John Murphy,

Archbishop of Cardiff The Archbishop of Cardiff is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff.

; and

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. Restieaux attended the Second Vatican Council. He was the principal consecrator of Christopher Budd, Bishop of Plymouth, and assisted at the consecration of the late

George Dwyer George Patrick Dwyer (25 September 1908 – 17 September 1987) was an English prelate and the Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, England. Dwyer served as the sixth Archbishop of Birmingham from 1965 to 1981, su ...

, and the late James McGuinness, Bishop of Nottingham. In 1986, Restieaux retired to

Torquay Torquay ( ) is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay. It lies south of the county town of Exeter and east-north-east of Plymouth, on the north of Tor Bay, adjoining the neighbouring town of Paignton ...

, where he died in 1996, two days after his 86th birthday.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Restieaux, Cyril Edward 1910 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in England Participants in the Second Vatican Council British people of French descent Roman Catholic bishops of Plymouth English College, Rome alumni