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- In 1823, Bishop John Milner, Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District, sent a Fr William Foley to Northampton to establish a permanent Roman Catholic presence in the town. His first base was a small house, used by a Catholic priest during the previous two years, which had one room as a chapel.
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A brief history of the Cathedral. There was Christian worship in Northampton from mid-Saxon times. ln the Middle Ages it contained churches, abbeys and friaries for all the Franciscan orders. Blessed Duns Scotus worked there.
In 1823, Bishop John Milner, Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District, sent a Fr William Foley to Northampton to establish a permanent Roman Catholic presence in the town. His first base was a small house, used by a Catholic priest during the previous two years, which had one room as a chapel.
The Diocese of Northampton (Latin: Dioecesis Northantoniensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic church in England and Wales and suffragan of Westminster. Its see is in Northampton. The Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate and St Thomas of Canterbury is the mother church of the Diocese.
The Cathedral Church of Our Lady Immaculate and St Thomas of Canterbury can be found in the town of Northampton. » Dioceses » Northampton » Cathedral Church of Our Lady Immacu... The origins of the current building date back to 1840 when Bishop Wareing commissioned Augustus Welby, Northmore and Pugin to design a collegiate chapel of St Felix ...
A heartfelt welcome from Fr Simon to the Cathedral Church of Our Lady Immaculate and St Thomas of Canterbury, the seat of the Bishop of Northampton and the Mother Church of Catholics across the Diocese – northamptondiocese.org. The Cathedral has been a place of prayer and worship for over 150 years and continues to be a sacred place where ...
The Reverend J R Hussey, who was then Curate of Belgrave in Leicester, began his work in Northampton in the Junior Schoolroom in Byron Street. By Easter an iron church had been erected, dedicated to St Matthew, which housed 72 communicants at its first Easter Day services.
Northampton. The Diocese of Northampton was founded in 1850. Today it encompasses the counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and that part of Berkshire (formerly in Buckinghamshire) that lies to the north of the River Thames. The cathedral is in Northampton, and is dedicated to Our Lady Immaculate and St Thomas of ...
