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27-692: The society was founded in 1866 by Herbert Alfred Vaughan . In 1892, a separate North American offshoot, the Society of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (Josephites), was formed. The society was formerly based at St Joseph's College at Mill Hill in north London . The late 1960s saw the development of the Missionary Institute of London to consolidate training facilities for the various mission societies in Britain. St Joseph's College site

54-523: A "commercial school" to prepare the sons of Manchester Catholics for a life in business and the professions. Vaughan chose to live at Hampton Grange, on the St. Bede's College campus, with his own Bishop's residence on Chapel Street in Salford being given over to a Seminary . In 1879, as the most eminent local Catholic, Vaughan was chosen by the then Home Secretary, R.A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross , to be one of

81-600: A Catholic convert, became the second Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster following the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Great Britain in 1850. Vaughan received Holy Orders at Lucca in 1854. On his return to England, he became Vice-President of St Edmund's College , at that time the chief seminary in the south of England for candidates for the priesthood. Since childhood, Vaughan had been filled with zeal for foreign missions. He convinced Cardinal Wiseman and

108-725: A capital campaign, with the result that the foundation stone for the cathedral was laid in 1895. When Vaughan died in 1903 at the age of 71, the building was so far complete that a Requiem Mass was said there. His body was interred at the cemetery of St. Joseph's College, the headquarters of the Mill Hill Missionaries in North London but it was moved back to the cathedral and reinterred in the Chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury (the "Vaughan Chantry") in 2005. Titular bishop A titular bishop in various churches

135-674: A diocesan bishop to a titular see has been used by the Holy See to strip of responsibilities a bishop whose behavior was disapproved. For instance, in 1995, Jacques Gaillot , known for his activism on Catholic-sensitive social and political topics (such as support for contraception and abortion ), was transferred from the see of Évreux in France to Partenia , a titular see in Algeria , instead of becoming Bishop Emeritus of Évreux. Titular bishops and titular metropolitans are often appointed in

162-545: A letter requesting clergy for that purpose to Vaughan, superior general at Mill Hill. In 1871, Vaughan led a group of priests to the US to establish a mission society to minister to freedmen in the South . In 1872 Vaughan was consecrated as the second Bishop of Salford , succeeding Bishop William Turner . Vaughan relinquished his position as superior at St. Joseph's College, but in 1876 established St Bede's College , conceived as

189-546: A more open attitude to women's enfranchisement, reported as saying, "I believe that the extension of the Parliamentary Franchise to women upon the same conditions as it is held by men would be a just and beneficial measure, tending to raise rather than to lower the course of national legislation." Vaughan was an ecclesiastic of remarkably fine presence and aristocratic leanings, intransigent in theological policy, and in personal character simply devout. In 1893

216-493: A non-diocesan appointment are no longer habitually transferred to a titular see. Instead, they take the title Bishop (or Archbishop ) Emeritus of the last see. Also, coadjutors are no longer named to titular sees, instead taking the title Coadjutor Bishop (or Coadjutor Archbishop ) of the see they will inherit. In other cases titular bishops still take a titular see. Beginning in 2019, titular sees are no longer being assigned to new Vicars Apostolic. When Francis Green

243-580: A papal diplomat, or an official of the Roman Curia is appointed to a titular see . In the Catholic Church , a titular bishop is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese . Examples of bishops belonging to this category are coadjutor bishops , auxiliary bishops , bishops emeriti , vicars apostolic , nuncios , superiors of departments in the Roman Curia , and cardinal bishops of suburbicarian dioceses (since they are not in charge of

270-517: 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 and Oriental Orthodox churches is that he be ordained for a specific place. There are more bishops than there are functioning dioceses. Therefore, a priest appointed not to head a diocese as its diocesan bishop but to be an auxiliary bishop ,

297-534: The American branch of the society spun off, with Vaughan's permission, to form the Society of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart , whose members are known as Josephites. Herbert Vaughan was born at Gloucester , the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Francis Vaughan, of an old recusant ( Catholic ) family, the Vaughans of Courtfield , Herefordshire . His mother, Eliza Rolls from The Hendre , Monmouthshire ,

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324-464: The Catholic Church or a Catholic institution is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Herbert Alfred Vaughan Herbert Alfred Henry Joseph Thomas Vaughan MHM (15 April 1832 – 19 June 1903) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church . He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1892 until his death in 1903, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1893. He

351-576: The Church of England that was put into motion by a high-church Anglican, Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax and a French priest, Ferdinand Portal . Through the efforts of Vaughan and Archbishop of Canterbury Edward White Benson , this early form of ecumenism was put down. It culminated with the condemnation of Anglican Orders by Pope Leo XIII in his bull, Apostolicae curae . It was Vaughan's most cherished ambition to see an adequate Westminster Cathedral . He worked untiringly to secure subscriptions for

378-737: The Mill Hill world present, a decision was taken to recruit Mill Hill Missionaries from Africa and Asia, our former mission areas, now flourishing with well-established churches planted and grown by Mill Hill Missionaries." There are now Mill Hill Society formation centres in Cameroon, East Africa, the Philippines, and India. As of 2014, the congregation has forty priests working within Ireland and twenty working internationally, with an average age of 73. This organization-related article on

405-615: The US Mill Hill mission, based in Baltimore, Maryland , reorganised with Vaughan's blessing as an independent institution, known as Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart . Among its founders was the first African-American Catholic priest trained and ordained in the United States, Charles Uncles . It was due to this theological "purity" that Vaughan assisted in scuttling an opportunity for rapprochement between Rome and

432-625: The bishops to agree to a proposal to build a seminary in England that would train priests to serve on missions throughout the British Empire. With this goal, he made a fund-raising trip to America in 1863, from which he returned with £11,000. In 1868, Vaughan became proprietor of The Tablet . He wrote James McMaster , owner of the New York Freeman's Journal and Catholic Register , "No one can appreciate more highly than I do

459-580: The college at Mill Hill was effectively closed for the duration of the war. In the 1960s, Pope John XXIII asked missionary societies to become involved in South America. As of 2019, the Mill Hill Missionaries are active in Brazil and Ecuador. On its 150th anniversary, an account of its history on the Diocese of Westminster website said in part: "At the 1988 Chapter, with representatives from all over

486-612: The eldest, went to study for six years at Stonyhurst College , then to the Jesuit school of Brugelette , Belgium (1846–1848), and then with the Benedictines at Downside Abbey , near Bath , England. In 1851 Vaughan went to Rome, and studied for two years at the Collegio Romano , where for a time he shared lodgings with the poet, Aubrey Thomas de Vere . He became a friend and disciple of Henry Edward Manning . Manning,

513-547: The great mission of the Catholic press in these days of steam and universal education." He succeeded in opening St Joseph's Foreign Missionary College , Mill Hill Park , London, in 1869. That same year, the Tenth Provincial Council of Baltimore passed a decree exhorting all bishops to establish missions and schools in their dioceses for African Americans. Subsequently, the Council Fathers wrote

540-469: The hands of non-Christian conquerors. For this reason the former terminology was not "titular bishop" but "bishop in infidel regions" ( in partibus infidelium ). In recent times the names of titular sees are drawn also in numerous cases from those of former dioceses which were absorbed into other dioceses or expanded and hence moved to larger towns and cities. Since 1970, there are two more exceptions. Diocesan bishops who resign their see or are transferred to

567-399: The suburbicarian dioceses). Most titular bishops hold the title to a titular see . Assigning titular sees serves two purposes. Since part of being a bishop means being the head of a Christian church , titular sees serve that purpose for bishops without a diocese. At the same time, the office of titular bishop memorializes ancient Churches, most of which were suppressed because they fell into

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594-409: The suburbicarian sees near Rome. While they do not govern their see, they are obliged to give it their patronage. Angelo Sodano , as Cardinal Bishop of Albano , was titular bishop of the see, while Bishop Marcello Semeraro is its actual diocesan bishop. The Cardinal Dean is by tradition Cardinal Bishop of Ostia , in addition to the suburbicarian see he previously held. Occasionally, the transfer of

621-491: The trustees of the £1,000 compensation paid to a Whalley Range farm labourer, William Habron, pardoned for the murder of PC Nicholas Cock. In 1892 Vaughan succeeded Manning as Archbishop of Westminster, receiving the cardinal's hat in 1893 as Cardinal-Priest of Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio . Vaughan was a man of different type from his predecessor; he had none of the ultramontane Manning's intellectual finesse or his ardor for social reform. Vaughan did however have

648-502: Was a Catholic convert and intensely religious. All five of the Vaughan daughters became nuns, while six of the eight sons received Holy Orders and became priests. Two were later called as bishops in addition to Herbert: Roger became Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and John became titular bishop of Sebastopolis and auxiliary bishop in Salford, England . A nephew, Francis , became Bishop of Menevia, Wales . In 1841 Herbert,

675-588: Was closed in 2006. Its present headquarters are at 6 Colby Gardens in Maidenhead , Berkshire SL6 7GZ. In 1884, St Peter's School, Freshfield , near Liverpool was founded to serve as a preparatory school to the college. During the Second World War . the college was evacuated to Lochwinnoch in Scotland. The war ministry then requisitioned part of the buildings for the use of the civil service;

702-612: Was named Coadjutor Bishop of Tucson , Arizona, in 1960, his official title remained " Titular Bishop of Serra " until he succeeded Daniel James Gercke later that same year. However, when Gerald Kicanas became Coadjutor Bishop of Tucson in 2001, he ceased being Titular Bishop of Bela . He remained a titular bishop until he succeeded Manuel Moreno in 2003, but his official title changed from "Titular Bishop of Bela" to "Coadjutor Bishop of Tucson." Cardinal Bishops of suburbicarian dioceses are also titular bishops, but unlike others, they hold titles to existing dioceses, namely one or more of

729-479: Was the founder in 1866 of St Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society , known best as the Mill Hill Missionaries. He also founded the Catholic Truth Society and St. Bede's College, Manchester . As Archbishop of Westminster, he led the capital campaign and construction of Westminster Cathedral . In 1871 Vaughan sent a group of Mill Hill priests to the United States to minister to freedmen . In 1893,

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