William Wareing
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Bishop William Wareing (14 February 1791 – 26 December 1865) was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Northampton.
Born at
George Hilary Brown.[1]
He worked first on the mission at
Eastern District,[2] which comprised the nine counties of Lincolnshire, Rutland, Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. He selected Northampton as the seat of the Vicars Apostolic, and subsequently the Roman Catholic Bishops of Northampton.[3]
On 29 September 1850, aged 59, he was appointed the first
re-establishment of the Catholic Hierarchy.[4]
On 21 December 1858, aged 67, he resigned as Bishop of Northampton, and was appointed Titular Bishop of Rhithymna. He retired to Old Hall, East Bergholt, Suffolk.[5] He died, aged 74, as Bishop Emeritus of Northampton and Titular Bishop of Rhithymna.[1] He was buried in East Bergholt Cemetery, near Ipswich.[6] He had been a priest for 50 years and a bishop for 25 years.
In 1845 he received into the Catholic Church the former
Anglican Vicar of Elton, Cambridgeshire, Frederick William Faber
, whose hymns and writings went round the English-speaking world.
References
- ^ a b Cheney, David M. (2018). "Bishop William Wareing". catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
- ^ Freeland, John. "Northampton." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 28 February 2019
- ^ A History of the Roman Catholic Community of Stamford. Simon Stanley. 2000. pages 23-29.
- ^ The Catholic Telegraph, 4 December 1852
- ISBN 9781910519257
- ^ "Former Bishops of the Diocese" Diocese of Northampton
