Ecclesiastical Organisation

Districts under Vicars Apostolic (to 1840)

LONDON (1688) - James Yorke Bramston 1827-1836; Thomas Griffiths 1836-1847; Thomas Walsh 1848-1849; Nicholas Wiseman 1849-1850.

MIDLAND (1688, renamed Central 1840) - Thomas Walsh 1826-1848; William Bernard Ullathorne OSB 1848-1850.

NORTHERN (1688) - Thomas Penswick 1824-1836; John Briggs 1836-1840; Francis Mostyn 1840-1847; William Riddell 1847; William Hogarth 1848-1850.

WESTERN (1688) - Peter Augustine Baines OSB 1829-1843; Charles Michael Baggs 1844-1845; William Bernard Ullathorne OSB 1846-1848; Joseph William Hendren OFM 1848-1850.


Revised Districts (1840-1850)

EASTERN (1840) - William Wareing 1840-1850.

LANCASHIRE (1840) - George Hilary Brown 1840-1850.

WELSH (1840) - Thomas Joseph Brown OSB 1840-1850.

YORKSHIRE (1840) - John Briggs 1840-1850.


Dioceses (from 1850)

Archbishops of Westminster (all of them Cardinals) - Nicholas Wiseman 1850; Henry Edward Manning 1865; Herbert Vaughan 1892; Francis Bourne 1903; Arthur Hinsley 1935; Bernard Griffin 1943; William Godfrey 1956; John Carmel Heenan 1963.

Beverley (suppressed 1878) - John Briggs 1850; Robert Cornthwaite 1861.

Birmingham (archdiocese since 191 1) - William Bernard Ullathorne OSB 1850;
Edward Illsley 1888; John McIntyre 1921; Thomas Leighton Williams 1929; Joseph Masterson 1947; Francis Joseph Grimshaw 1954-1965.

Brentwood (1917) - Bernard Nicholas Ward 1917; Arthur Doubleday 1920; George Andrew Beck AA 1951; Bernard Patrick Wall 1956-1969.

Archbishops of Cardiff (1916) - James Romanus Bilsborrow OSB 1916; Francis Mostyn 1921; Michael McGrath 1940; John Aloysius Murphy 1961.

Clifton (1850) - Joseph William Hendren OFM 1850; Thomas Burgess 1851; William Hugh Joseph Clifford 1857; William Robert Brownlow 1893; George Ambrose Burton 1902; William Lee 1932; Joseph Edward Rudderham 1949-1974.

Hexham (1850) and Newcastle (1861) - William Hogarth 1850; James Chadwick 1866; John William Bewick 1882; Henry O'Callaghan 1888; Thomas William Wilkinson 1889; Richard Collins 1909; Joseph Thorman 1925; Joseph McCormack 1937; James Cunningham 1958-1974.

Lancaster (1924) - Thomas Wulstan Pearson OSB 1925; Thomas Edward Flynn 1939; Brian Charles Foley 1962.

Leeds (1878) - Robert Cornthwaite 1878; William Gordon 1890; Joseph Cowgill 1911; Henry John Poskitt 1936; John Carmel Heenan 1951; George Patrick Dwyer 1957-1965.

Liverpool (archdiocese since 1911) - George Hilary Brown 1850; Alexander Goss 1856; Bernard O'Reilly 1873; Thomas Whiteside 1894; Frederick William Keating 1921; Richard Downey 1928; William Godfrey 1953; John Carmel Heenan 1957; George Andrew Beck AA 1964-1976.

Menevia (1898) *Francis Mostyn 1898; Francis Vaughan 1926; Michael McGrath 1935; Daniel Joseph Hannon 1941; John Edward Petit 1947-1972.

Middlesbrough (1878) - Richard Lacy 1879; Thomas Shine 1929; George Brunner 1956.

Newport and Menevia (I 850, reduced 1895, suppressed 1916) - Thomas Joseph Brown OSB 1850; John Cuthbert Hedley OSB 1880.

Northampton (1850) - William Wareing 1850; Francis Kerril Amherst 1858; Arthur Riddell 1882; Frederick William Keating 1908; Dudley Charles Cary-Elwes 1922; Laurence Youens 1933; Thomas Leo Parker 1941-1967.

Nottingham (1850) - Joseph William Hendren OFM 185 1; Richard Butler Roskell 1853; Edward Gilpin Bagshawe 1874; Robert Brindle 1901; Thomas Dunn 1916; Thomas McNulty 1932; Edward Ellis 1944-1974.

Plymouth (1850) - George Errington 1851; William Vaughan 1855; Charles Graham 1902; John Joseph Keily 1911; John Patrick Barrett 1929; Francis Joseph Grimshaw 1947; Cyril Edward Restieaux 1955.

Portsmouth (1882) - John Vertue 1882; John Baptist Cahill 1900; William Timothy
Cotter 1910; John Henry King 1941-1965.

Salford (1850) - William Turner 1851; Herbert Vaughan 1872; John Bilsborrow
1892; Louis Charles Casartelli 1903; Thomas Henshaw 1925; Henry Vincent Marshall 1939; George Andrew Beck AA 1955; Thomas Holland 1964.

Shrewsbury (1850) - James Brown 1851; Edmund Knight 1881; John Carroll 1895; Samuel Webster Allen 1897; Hugh Singleton 1908; Ambrose James Moriarty 1934; John Aloysius Murphy 1949; Eric William Grasar 1962-1980.

Southwark (1850, archdiocese in 1965) - Thomas Grant 1851; James Danell 1871; Robert Aston Coffin CSSR 1882; John Butt 1886; Francis Bourne 1897; Peter Emmanuel Amigo 1904; Cyril Cowderoy 1949-1976.

Bishops in Ordinary to H. M. Forces (1917) - William Lewis Keatinge 1917; James Dey 1934-1946; vacant to 1954; David Mathew 1954.


* Bishop Mostyn had been Vicar Apostolic of Wales 1895-1898. Menevia had been united with Newport 1850-1895 and was later to be vacant 1921-1926. (back)

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