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Francis Bourne

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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"FRANCIS BOURNE (1861-), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster, was born at Clapham on March 23 1861, and educated at Ushaw, Ware, St. Sulpice (Paris) and the university of Louvain. He was ordained priest in 1884, and in 1889 became rector of the Southwark diocesan seminary which he had founded. In 1895 he was appointed domestic prelate to Pope Leo XIII., and in 1897 Bishop of Southwark. In 1903 he succeeded Cardinal Vaughan as Archbishop of Westminster, and on Nov. 27 1911 was created cardinal (titular of S. Pudenziana) by Pope Pius X.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Francis Bourne'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​f/francis-bourne.html. 1910.
 
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