DIOCESE OF BEVERLEY. (Comprising Yorkshire). PATRONS OF THE DIOCESE. I. The Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of Her Patronage, 4th Sunday of Oct. II. St John of Beverley, Oct. 25. JOHN BRIGGS. 1850. John Briggs, D.D., Vicar Apostolic of the former Yorkshire District, and bishop of Trachis in partibus, was translated from Trachis to Beverley, by Propaganda decree Sept. 21, approved by the Pope, Sept. 23, expedited, Sept. 28, and with Brief dated Sept. 29, 1850. Propaganda. John Briggs, born in the year 1789, was educated at Ushaw College, which he entered on the 13th of October, 1804. He received the Tonsure and four Minor Orders, Dec. 14, 1808, being then aged 19 years; Subdiaconate, Dec. 19, 1812; Diaconate, April 3, 1813; and Priesthood, BEVERLEY. JOHN BRIGGS. 1850-1861. July 9, 1814, all at Ushaw, and from the bishop of Acanthus, William Gibson. In 1816 he left the College, but being elected President, he returned to Ushaw on the 28th of March, 1832, and continued to reside there until August 11, 1836. He was consecrated in 1833 (See p. 280) as bishop of Trachis and coadjutor in the Northern Vicariate; became Vic. Ap. Northern District in 1836; Vic. Ap. Yorkshire District in 1840; and bishop of Berverley in 1850. Bishop Briggs, being in very infirm health, resigned his see on the 7th of November, 1860. He died in the seventy second year of his age, at his house in York, on the 4th of January, 1861, fortified with all the rights of the Church. On the 10th of January, his body was buried. in the chapel of St Leonard, Hazlewood, Tadcaster, by the chaplain, Robert Tate, S.T.D., with the assistance of the Vicar Capitular and the Canons of the chapter of Beverley. On the 9th of January the office for the dead, and, on the 10th, a solemn Requiem Mass were sung in the Pro-Cathedral of St George at York. The Bishop of Southwark sung the Mass, and the bishops of Hexham, Birmingham, Salford and Liverpool were present. The following inscription was placed on his tomb: ORATE PRO ANIMA REV IN CHRISTO PATRIS DN JOANNIS BRIGGS EPISCOPI TRACHINENSIS, PER ANNOS XVII VICARII APOSTOLICI, ANNO AUTEM SALUTIS MDCCCL RESTAURATA JAM HIERARCHIA QUO ONERE OB INFIRMAM VALETUDINEM PAUCIS DECESSIT VIR PIETATE ÆTATE ET FORMA VENERABILIS EBORACI DIE IV JANUARII A. D MDCCCLXI, ÆTATIS LXXII. BEVERLEY. ROBERT CORNTHWAITE. On a portrait of bishop Briggs now in the possession of bishop Cornthwaite in the following inscription: RS IN CHRISTO PATER AC DNUS JOANNES BRIGGS PRIMUS POST HIERARCHIAM ANNO MDCCCL PRÆLATUS DOMESTICUS SUÆ SANCTITATIS ET SOLIO PONTIFICIO ASSISTENS PIE OBIIT IN D,NO EBORACI, DIE IV JANUARII A. D. MDCCLX EPUS TRACHINENSIS A.D. MDCCCXXXIII RENUNCIATUS DISTRICTU EBORACENSI PRÆFECTUS ROBERT CORNTHWAITE. 1861. Robert Cornthwaite, Canon of Hexham, succeeded. His election, made by Propaganda, August 19, was approved by the Pope, Aug. 25, and expedited, Aug. 29, 1861. Right was reserved to the Holy See to divide the diocese. The Briefs was dated Sept. 3, 1861. Robert Cornthwaite, son of William Cornthwaite, Esq., by his wife, Elizabeth Cuerdon, was born at Preston, Lancashire, on the 9th of May, 1818. He entered St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, May 9, 1830, and received the Tonsure and four Minor orders, on the 5th of June, 1841, from Bishop Mostyn. During the last year of his stay at Ushaw he taught Humanities. On the 30th of September, 1842, having left Ushaw, Mr Cornthwaite entered the English College, Rome; took the oath, July, 2, 1843; and was BEVERLEY. ROBERT CORNTHWAITE. ordained Subdeacon, Dec., 1843, in St John Lateran; Deacon, March 3, 1844, in English College, by bishop Baggs; and Priest, Nov. 9, 1845, by the Vice-gerent of Rome. He left the College, April 13, 1846, for England, and in the June following, he entered on the mission at Carlisle, in the diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. Being appointed on the 25th of August, 1851, Rector of the English College in Rome, in room of Dr Baggs created bishop of Southwark, Dr Cornthwaite returned to Rome, and remained there until the 7th of May, 1857, when he left for England. He resigned his office of Rector in September, 1857, on becoming the Missionary Rector of St Augustine's, Darlington, and Secretary to Dr Hogarth, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle. He was appointed, on 27th November, 1857, "Cameriere d'onore extra Urbem" to His Holiness, and on the 16th of July, 1858, was made Canon and Theologian of the Chapter of the diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. Monsignor Cornthwaite was consecrated for the see of Beverley on the tenth of November, 1861, by Cardinal Wiseman; the bishops of Southwark and Nottingham assisting. He was made Assistant at the Pontifical Throne, on the 8th of July, 1862. Bishop Cornthwaite's printed Pastoral Letters and Instructions are numerous, and fill about four Volumes 8°. DIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM. (Comprising Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire.) PATRON OF THE DIOCESE. Our Blessed Lady, conceived without sin, Dec. 8. WILLIAM BERNARD ULLATHORNE. 1850. William Bernard Ullathorne, O. S. B., Vicar Apostolic of the former Central District and bishop of Hetalonia in partibus, was translated from Hetalonia to the newly erected see of Birmingham, by Propaganda decree, Sept. 21, approved by the Pope, Sept. 22, expedited, Sept. 28, and with Brief Sept. 29, 1850. He received at the same time the administration of the see of Nottingham. Propaganda. William Ullathorne, who took the name of Bernard in Religion, was born of Catholic parents, at Pocklington in Yorkshire, on the 7th of May, 1806. After his earlier |