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Diocese of Portsmouth (587 words) |
 | With this he made a start, and the eighteen years of his episcopate was a slow and steady growth in every department of diocesan life — the founding of new missions, the establishment of religious communities, and the gradual increase in the ranks of the clergy. |
| He was well known in all branches of public life, and at his death the esteem in which he was held by the people of the borough, was attested by their liberal subscriptions to his memorial chapel in the cathedral. |
| Bishop Cahill had been Rector of Ryde since 1868, and vicar-general of the diocese since its foundation, he was consecrated coadjutor (titular of Thagora) only three weeks before the death of Bishop Virtue. |
| Bishop of Portsmouth (Catholic) - definition of Bishop of Portsmouth (Catholic) in Encyclopedia (234 words) |
| The Bishop of Porstmouth is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth in the Archdiocese of Southwark. |
| The diocese covers an area of 6,339 km² of the counties of Hampshire and Dorset, the areas of the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire south of the River Thames, the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands. |
| The see is in the City of Portsmouth where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Evangelist. |
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