The Vicar Apostolic of the Lancashire District was the title given to the bishop who headed an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church in England. The Vicariate Apostolic of the Lancashire District was created in 1840 and was replaced by two dioceses in 1850.
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