Roman Catholic Diocese of Newport and Menevia

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Newport (and Menevia) was the Latin Catholic precursor (1840-1916) in Wales and southwest England of the present Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff, with see in Newport, Wales, and was revived as Latin titular see.

History

Established in 1840 as Apostolic Vicariate of the Welsh District, on Anglo-Welsh territories (the whole of Wales and the English county of Herefordshire) canonically split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of the Western District.
Promoted on 1850.09.29 as Diocese of Newport and Menevia, a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, having lost northern, English territory to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury. It had its pro-cathedral at Belmont Abbey in Herefordshire (England), built from 15 February 1854 by Francis Richard Wegg-Prosser, a landowner converted in 1852, followed by Benedictine monastic buildings from 1857, since 21 November 1859 a priory, on 4 September 1860 is consecrated as the cathedral priory ^[1]^[2] The abbey continues to be enlarged (chancel extended in 1865).^[3]
Renamed on 1895.07.04 as Diocese of Newport (Latin Neoportus), having lost further (Welsh) territory to establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Wales,^[4] covering Glamorgan, Monmouth (both Welsh) and Herefordshire (England).
Suppressed on 1916.02.07, its canonical territory being used to establish the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff.

(all Roman Rite, both born in England)

Thomas Joseph Brown, Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (1840.06.05 – 1850.09.29 see below), Titular Bishop of Apollonia (1840.06.05 – 1850.09.29)

Thomas Joseph Brown, O.S.B. (1850.09.29 – death 1880.04.12)
John Cuthbert Hedley, O.S.B. (1881.02.18 – 1895 see below), succeeding as previous

Auxiliary Bishop of Newport and Menevia (1873.07.22 – 1881.02.18) and Titular Bishop of Cæsaropolis (1873.07.22 – 1881.02.18)

The pre-Cardiff diocese was nominally restored in 1969 as Titular bishopric of Newport (Latin Neoportus).

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank, with an archiepiscopal exception :^[5]

Titular Archbishop Fulton John Sheen (1969.10.06 – death 1979.12.09), as emeritate; previously Titular Bishop of Cæsariana (1951.05.28 – 1966.10.21) as Auxiliary Bishop of New York (NY, USA) (1951.05.28 – 1966.10.21), Bishop of Rochester (USA) (1966.10.21 – retired 1969.10.06)
Howard George Tripp (1979.12.20 – ...), as Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark (England) (1979.12.20 – emeritate 2004.01.07).

Roman Catholic dioceses in England and Wales
Province of Birmingham	Archdiocese of Birmingham Diocese of Clifton Diocese of Shrewsbury
Province of Cardiff	Archdiocese of Cardiff Diocese of Menevia Diocese of Wrexham
Province of Liverpool	Archdiocese of Liverpool Diocese of Hallam Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle Diocese of Lancaster Diocese of Leeds Diocese of Middlesbrough Diocese of Salford
Province of Southwark	Archdiocese of Southwark Diocese of Arundel and Brighton Diocese of Plymouth Diocese of Portsmouth
Province of Westminster	Diocese of Westminster Diocese of Brentwood Diocese of East Anglia Diocese of Northampton Diocese of Nottingham
Other Latin jurisdictions	Bishopric of the Forces in Great Britain Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
Eastern Catholic jurisdictions	Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family of London Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Great Britain
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↑ Obituary from The Tablet retrieved 5 April 2014
↑ History from Belmont Abbey, Herefordshire retrieved 5 April 2014
↑ English Heritage retrieved 5 April 2014
↑ Catholic Province of Cardiff Wales and Herefordshire - Directory and Yearbook 2011 published December 2010 by authority of the Bishops of Wales - see page 8.
↑ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1255.htm GCatholic

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