Roman Catholic Diocese of Newport and Menevia
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Newport was the Latin Catholic precursor 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 canonically split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of the Western District.
- Elevated on 29 September 1850 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, 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 The abbey continues to be enlarged.
- Renamed on 4 July 1895 as Diocese of Newport, having lost further territory to establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Wales, covering Glamorgan, Monmouth and Herefordshire.
- Suppressed on 7 February 1916, its canonical territory being used to establish the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff.
Episcopal ordinaries
;Apostolic Vicar of the Welsh District;Suffragan Bishops of Newport and Menevia
- Thomas Joseph Brown, O.S.B.
- John Cuthbert Hedley, O.S.B., succeeding as previous
;Suffragan Bishops of Newport
- John Cuthbert Hedley, O.S.B..
Titular see
The pre-Cardiff diocese was nominally restored in 1969 as Titular bishopric of Newport.It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal rank, with an archiepiscopal exception :Titular Archbishop Fulton John Sheen, as emeritate; previously Titular Bishop of Cæsariana as Auxiliary Bishop of New York, Bishop of Rochester
- Howard George Tripp, as Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark .
- Michael Izen