Diocese of Carlisle
The Diocese of Carlisle ( Latin : Dioecesis Carleolensis ) is an Anglican diocese in the ecclesiastical province of York of the Church of England with its seat in Carlisle . It was a Roman Catholic diocese until the English Reformation .
history
The diocese was established on April 11, 1132 from cessions of territory from the Diocese of Durham . On May 2, 1223 the establishment of the diocese by Pope Honorius III. approved. The first bishop was Athelwold which the confessor of King Henry I was. Its seat was in the Augustinian monastery in the city of Carlisle.
The last Roman Catholic bishop, Owen Oglethorpe , was deposed by Queen Elizabeth I on June 26, 1559 , for refusing to sign the Act of Supreme . Bishop Owen Oglethorpe died in prison on December 3 of that year.
The Catholic Diocese of Carlisle was subordinate to the Archdiocese of York as a suffragan . It included the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland in England .
See also
- List of the Bishops of Carlisle
- List of former Catholic dioceses
- Roman Catholic Church in the United Kingdom
- List of dioceses in the Church of England
literature
- B. Jones: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541. Volume 6. Northern province (York, Carlisle and Durham). London 1963, pp. 107-109 ( British History Online ).