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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.
Honouring individuals buried in Westminster Abbey has a long tradition. Over 3,300 people are buried or commemorated in the abbey. [1] For much of the abbey's history, most of the people buried there besides monarchs were people with a connection to the church – either ordinary locals or the monks of the abbey itself, who were generally buried without surviving markers. [2]
Lord Mountbatten of Burma in 1976 by Allan Warren. The ceremonial funeral of Admiral of the Fleet The 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma took place on Wednesday, 5 September 1979, at Westminster Abbey following his assassination by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on Monday, 27 August 1979, off the coast of the Mullaghmore Peninsula in County Sligo, Ireland.
The Diocese of Westminster (Latin: Dioecesis Vestmonasteriensis) is a Latin archdiocese [1] of the Catholic Church in England. The diocese consists of most of London north of the River Thames and west of the River Lea, the borough of Spelthorne (in Surrey), and the county of Hertfordshire, which lies immediately to London's north.
After a funeral service broadcast live on national television, he was buried in Westminster Cathedral. John Paul II, in his message of condolence to the Church in England and Wales, praised Hume as a "shepherd of great spiritual and moral character". [18] Hume was the last Archbishop of Westminster to employ a gentiluomo. The gentiluomo were a ...
Henry Edward Manning (15 July 1808 – 14 January 1892) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church, and the second Archbishop of Westminster from 1865 until his death in 1892. [2] He was ordained in the Church of England as a young man, but converted to Catholicism in the aftermath of the Gorham judgement.
On 4 May 1375 he succeeded William Whittlesey as archbishop of Canterbury, [4] and during the rest of his life was a partisan of John of Gaunt. In July 1377, following the death of Edward III in June, Simon of Sudbury crowned the new king, Richard II , at Westminster Abbey , and in 1378 John Wycliffe appeared before him at Lambeth , but Sudbury ...
Archbishop Godfrey was created Cardinal-Priest by Pope John XXIII in the consistory of 15 December 1958 and was assigned the title of Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo . Godfrey, who enjoyed the piano and sports, [ 3 ] lived long enough to attend only the first session of the Second Vatican Council in 1962.