NOTTINGHAM, Diocese of. - City and diocese in England. It comprises the counties of Leicester, Lincoln, Derby, N. and Rutland.

It has a population of 2,653,757 inhabitants (1931 census), of whom in 1948 Catholics numbered 84,035. It contains 116 parishes, served by 135 secular priests and 120 regulars, 18 male communities and 37 female, a junior seminary (Junior Seminary) at Tollerton Hall (1948), boys' secondary schools, among them the Jesuits' Mount St Mary's College and the Rosminians' Ratcliffe College; furthermore 19 girls' secondary schools. In 1948 there were 472 conversions. The patrons of the diocese are Our Lady Immaculate and St. Hugh of Lincoln. The diocese is a suffragan of Westminster.

The first bishop was J. W. Hendren (1851-53), who was succeeded by R. Roskell (1853-74), E. Bagshawe (1874-1901), R. Brindle (1901-15), T. Dunn (1916-31), J. F. McNulty (1932-45), and E. Ellis from 1945.

The diocese includes Lincoln with a magnificent cathedral (now Protestant), and Southwell with its beautiful "Minster" (monastery), a Protestant cathedral since 1884, and also the ruins of Newstead Abbey. In the alienated church of All Saints Derby, Holy Mass was said in 1745 when Prince Charles Edward attempted to regain the crown of Great Britain.

Lincolnshire took part in the "Pilgrimage of Grace" of 1536 in defense of the Catholic religion. Among the English martyrs are the Bl. Augustine Webster, prior of Axholme (d. 1535), Thomas Woodhouse (d. 1570), James William Hartley, Robert Sutton (both d. 1588), Roger Dickenson (d. 1591), Eustace White (d. 1591), Mark Barkworth O. S. B. (d. 1601), William Ireland and Anthony Turner (d. 1679) and the Ven. Nicholas Garlick and Robert Ludlam (d. 1588), Richard Yaxley (d. 1589), and Thomas Pormort (d. 1592).

In the 19th century the Jesuits founded their Mount St Mary's College (1842), the Cistercians Mount St. Bernard's, made an abbey by Pius IX in 1848. At the same time the Rosminians carried out great missionary work and founded Ratcliffe College in 1844.

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BIBL.: W. Croft, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XI, p. 133; The catholic directory 1950, London 1950, pp. 270-84.

Enrico G. Rope

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