The Roman Catholic Diocese of Beverley is an historical

diocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...

of the Roman Catholic Church in England. It took its name after the town of

Beverley Beverley is a market and minster town and a civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, of which it is the county town. The town centre is located south-east of York's centre and north-west of City of Hull. The town is known fo ...

in the

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

, although the episcopal see was located in the city of

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

. The diocese was established in 1850 and was replaced by two dioceses in 1878:

Middlesbrough Middlesbrough ( ) is a town on the southern bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, England. It is near the North York Moors national park. It is the namesake and main town of its local borough council area. Until the early 1800s, the a ...

and

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by popula ...

. It was restored as a

titular see A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbis ...

in 1969.

History

The Apostolic Vicariate of the

Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have ...

District was created out of the Northern District on 11 May 1840., ''The Episcopal Succession, volume 3'', p. 341. As its name implied, it comprised most of the

area. On the restoration of the hierarchy in

England and Wales England and Wales () is one of the three legal jurisdictions of the United Kingdom. It covers the constituent countries England and Wales and was formed by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. The substantive law of the jurisdiction is Eng ...

by Pope Pius IX, the Yorkshire District was elevated to the Diocese of Beverley on 29 September 1850. The

pro-cathedral A pro-cathedral or procathedral is a parish church that temporarily serves as the cathedral or co-cathedral of a diocese, or a church that has the same function in a Catholic missionary jurisdiction (such as an apostolic prefecture or apostoli ...

was located first at St George's, York, and then at St Wilfrid's, York. Twenty-eight years later, the diocese was suppressed on 20 December 1878 and its area was divided into the dioceses of

and

Titular see

The

of Beverley (

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: ''Beverlacum''; la, Beverlacensis) was restored by the Roman Catholic Church in 1969. The current

titular bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox ...

is the Right Reverend John Hine, who serves as an Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Southwark.

List of Ordinaries

Vicar Apostolic of the Yorkshire District

Diocesan Bishops of Beverley

Titular Bishops and Archbishops of Beverley

References

Bibliography

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Diocese of Beverley Christianity in the East Riding of Yorkshire Beverley Religious organizations established in 1850

1850 establishments in England