Vicar Apostolic of The Western District
The first Vicar Apostolic of the Western District, with effect from 30 January 1688, was Bishop Philip Michael Ellis OSB, who resigned in 1705.
The Vicariate included the six south-western counties of England and all of Wales. In 1840, a general redivision of the vicariates took effect. Wales became a new vicariate, and thenceforth the Western District consisted of the English counties in the south west only. Despite this last subdivision and intermittent persecution, a Vicariate Apostolic of the Western District continued in existence until on 29 September 1850 Pope Pius IX issued the Bull Universalis Ecclesiae, by which thirteen new dioceses which did not formally claim any continuity with the pre-Elizabethan English dioceses were created, commonly known as the restoration of the English hierarchy. Among them was the diocese of Clifton, which along with the new diocese of Plymouth was formed from the territory of the former Vicariate Apostolic of the Western District.
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