Vicar Apostolic Of The Western District (England)
The Vicar Apostolic of the Western District was the title given to the Roman Catholic bishop who, between 1688 and 1850, headed the Church's ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England known as the Vicariate Apostolic of the Western District.
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