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5 giorni fa · He was appointed to the position of President of St Cuthbert’s College Ushaw in June 2003. On 12th April 2006 he was made a papal chaplain by his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. He was appointed the seventh Bishop of Middlesbrough by Pope Benedict on 17th November 2007.
5 giorni fa · There are also here altar tombs to Thomas Legh Claughton, first bishop of St. Albans (1892), and Alfred Blomfield, bishop of Colchester (1894). The SOUTH TRANSEPT is in general design similar to the north transept, and as regards its gable wall has had much the same history.
5 giorni fa · For centuries the most important industry in the town was printing. One of the earliest presses was set up in the town by the “Scolemaster Printer,” who operated there from 1479 until 1486. One of his books, The Boke of St. Albans, contains the earliest example of colour printing in England.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 giorni fa · The townsmen of St. Albans appear to have had rights in the abbey church at an early date and probably had their services in the nave of the Saxon church.
3 giorni fa · Sometime around 1149, Breakspear was appointed Bishop of Albano, in central Italy. In that role, he was assigned to visit Scandinavia, where he reorganized the Church in Norway, then moved on to Sweden, where he was admired and acclaimed by the local Catholics.
1 giorno fa · St Albans is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Daisy Cooper, a Liberal Democrat. [n 2] This article also describes the parliamentary borough (1554-1852) of the same name, consisting only of the city of St Albans, which elected two MPs by the bloc vote system.
5 giorni fa · The parish church of ST. MARY consists of nave, apse, south porch, and combined north vestry and organ chamber. The walls are of flint rubble. The porch is of timber. In 1872 the church was largely rebuilt and very little medieval work now remains. Nothing is left of the pre-13th-century church except the font (see below).
