Joseph McCormack (1887–1958) was an

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who served as the

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Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle The Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle in the Province of Liverpool, known also on occasion as the Northern Province. History With the gradual abolition of the legal restricti ...

from 1936 to 1958. Born on 17 May 1887, he was

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to the priesthood on 11 August 1912. He was appointed the

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of the

Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, centred on St Mary's Cathedral in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. The diocese is one of the six suffragan sees in the ecclesiastic ...

by the

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on 30 December 1936, and

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to the

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on 4 February 1937. The principal

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was Archbishop

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of Liverpool, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop

Thomas Shine Thomas Shine KC*HS (12 February 1872 – 22 November 1955) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Middlesbrough from 1929 to 1955. Born in New Inn, County Tipperary, Ireland on 12 February 1872, comp ...

of Middlesbrough and Bishop

Henry John Poskitt Henry John Poskitt (6 September 1888 – 19 February 1950) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the fourth Bishop of Leeds. Life and ministry Poskitt was born in the village of Birkin in the West Riding of Yorkshire ...

of Leeds. He died in

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on 2 March 1958, aged 70, and was buried at

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.Former Bishops
''Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle''. Retrieved on 11 June 2011.

References

1887 births 1958 deaths Roman Catholic bishops of Hexham and Newcastle 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in England {{Christian-bio-stub