His Eminence Herbert Vaughan |
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Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster | |
Cardinal Vaughan
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Province | Westminster |
Diocese | Westminster |
Appointed | 8 April 1892 |
Term ended | 19 June 1903 |
Predecessor | Henry Edward Manning |
Successor | Francis Bourne |
Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio |
Orders | |
Ordination | 28 October 1854 by Giulio Arrigoni |
Consecration | 28 October 1872 by Henry Edward Manning |
Created Cardinal | 16 January 1893 |
Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
Personal details | |
Birth name | Herbert Alfred Vaughan |
Born |
Gloucester, Glos., England |
15 April 1832
Died | 19 June 1903 Mill Hill, Middlesex, England |
(aged 71)
Buried | Westminster Cathedral |
Nationality | British |
Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
Parents | John F. and Eliza (née Rolls) Vaughan |
Previous post | Bishop of Salford 1872-1892 |
Herbert Alfred Vaughan (1832–1903) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1892 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1893. He was the founder in 1866 of St Joseph's Foreign Missionary College, known as Mill Hill Missionaries. He also founded the Catholic Truth Society. In 1871 Vaughan led a group of priests to the United States to form a mission society whose purpose was to minister to freedmen. In 1893 the society reorganized to form the US-based St. Joseph Society of the Sacred Heart, known as the Josephite Fathers. Vaughan also founded St. Bede's College, Manchester. As Archbishop of Westminster, he led the capital campaign and construction of Westminster Cathedral.
Herbert Vaughan was born at Gloucester, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Francis Vaughan, of an old recusant (Roman Catholic) family, the Vaughans of Courtfield, Herefordshire. His mother, Eliza Rolls from The Hendre, Monmouthshire, was a Catholic convert and intensely religious. All five of the Vaughan daughters became nuns, while six of the eight sons received Holy Orders and became priests. Three were later called as bishops in addition to Herbert: Roger became Archbishop of Sydney, Australia; Francis became Bishop of Menevia, Wales; John became titular bishop of Sebastopolis and auxiliary bishop in Salford, England.