Archdiocese of York, England
Also known as
- Archidioecesis Eboracensis
Founded
- earliest record of the diocese is from 314
- earliest known bishop, Saint Paulinus, is recorded in 625
Elevated
- 735 by Pope Saint Gregory III
Profiled Bishops
- Blessed Vyevain of York
- Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
- Saint Bosa of York
- Saint Chad of Mercia
- Saint John of Beverley
- Saint Oswald of Worcester
- Saint Paulinus of York
- Saint Waltheof of Melrose
- Saint William of York
Additional Information
Notes
The diocese’s metropolitan jurisdiction, which disputed for precedence with Canterbury, and which, at the Norman Conquest, extended over Worcester, Lindsey, and Lincoln, the dioceses of Scotland, and of the Northern Isles, at the Reformation included only Durham, Carlisle, Sodor and Man, and temporarily, Chester. Alcuin was at the head of its famous school, and its long episcopal list includes Thomas of Bayeux, the first Norman prelate; Scrope, and Wolsey. The famous minster was completed in 1472. When the last Catholic archbishop, Nicholas Heath, resigned in 1559, the diocese was lost and its cathedral taken over by the Anglicans.
MLA Citation
- “Archdiocese of York, England”. Gazetteer of the Faith. CatholicSaints.Info. 7 November 2010. Web. 28 May 2024. <http://catholicsaints.info/archdiocese-of-york-england/>