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George Basil Hume OSB OM (born George Haliburton Hume; 2 March 1923 – 17 June 1999) was an English Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1976 until his death in 1999. He was a priest of the Benedictine Order and was made a cardinal in 1977.
The archbishop of Westminster heads the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster, in England. [1] [2] The incumbent is the metropolitan of the Province of Westminster, chief metropolitan of England and Wales [3] and, as a matter of custom, is elected president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, and therefore de facto spokesman of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
Since the re-establishment of the hierarchy of Roman Catholicism in England and Wales by Universalis Ecclesiae (1850), most have also been the Archbishop of Westminster. Every archbishop of Westminster has been created cardinal. The current archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, was elevated to the cardinalate on 22 February 2014 by Pope ...
Excluding Cardinals who were Archbishop of Canterbury or York. William Allen (Oriel and St Mary Hall) Cardinal 1587; Joseph Cordeiro Archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan and Cardinal 1973-1994; William Heard (Balliol) Dean of the Sacred Roman Rota 1958, Cardinal 1959; Basil Hume (St Benet's Hall) archbishop of Westminster and Cardinal 1976–99
Therefore, in 1976, the church was consecrated. Cardinal Basil Hume , Archbishop of Westminster , presided at the ceremony. After 1965, changes were made to the interior of the church with a stone altar installed at the front of the sanctuary .
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William Godfrey (25 July 1889 – 22 January 1963) was an English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster and de facto primate of England and Wales from 1956 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958. [1]
Francis Bourne was born in Clapham to Henry and Ellen Byrne Bourne on 23 March 1861. His father, a civil servant was a convert and his mother, an Irish Catholic. [2] Bourne entered St. Cuthbert College at Ushaw Moor, County Durham in 1867 and then upon the death of his older brother in 1877, it was decided that Francis should move to St. Edmund's College in Ware, which was considered a better ...