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ULLATHORNE, WILLIAM BERNARD (1806-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 566 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ULLATHORNE, See also:WILLIAM See also:BERNARD (1806-1889) , See also:English See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:bishop, was See also:born at Pocklington, See also:Yorkshire, on the 7th of May 18o6, of an old Roman Catholic See also:family. At fifteen he went to See also:sea, and made several voyages to the Baltic and Mediterranean. In 1823 he entered the See also:Benedictine monastery of Downside, near See also:Bath, taking the vows in 1825. He was ordained See also:priest in 1831, and in 1833 went to New See also:South See also:Wales, as See also:vicar-See also:general to Bishop William See also:Morris (1794-1872), whose See also:jurisdiction extended over the Australian See also:missions. It was mainly Ullathorne who caused See also:Gregory XVI. to establish the See also:hierarchy in See also:Australia. He returned to See also:England in 1836, and, after another visit to Australia, settled in England in 1841, taking See also:charge of the Roman Catholic See also:mission at See also:Coventry. He was consecrated bishop in 1847 as vicar-apostolic of the western See also:district, in See also:succession to Bishop C. M. Baggs (18o6-1845), but was transferred to the central district in the following See also:year. On the re-See also:establishment of the hierarchy in England Ullathorne became the first Roman Catholic bishop of See also:Birmingham. During his See also:thirty-eight years See also:tenure of the see 67 new churches, 32 convents and nearly 200 mission See also:schools were built. In 1888 he retired and received from See also:Leo XIII. the honorary See also:title of See also:archbishop of Cabasa.

He died at Oscott See also:

College on the 21st of See also:March 1889. Of his theological and philosophical See also:works the best known are: The Endowments of See also:Man (1882); The Groundwork of the See also:Christian Virtues (1883); Christian See also:Patience (1886). For an See also:account of his See also:life see his Autobiography, edited by A. T. See also:Drane (See also:London, 189r).

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