WILLIAM

See also:

• BERNARD, CHARLES DE
• BERNARD, CLAUDE (1813-1878)
• BERNARD, JACQUES (1658--1718)
• BERNARD, MOUNTAGUE (1S2o—1882)
• BERNARD, SAINT
• BERNARD, SAINT (Iogo-1153)
• BERNARD, SIMON (1779—1839)
• BERNARD, SIR THOMAS, BART

BERNARD

See also:

• WILLIAM BERNARD ULLATHORNE (1806-1889)

ULLATHORNE (1806-1889)  , English Roman Catholic bishop, was born at Pocklington, Yorkshire, on the 7th of May 18o6, of an old Roman Catholic family . At fifteen he went to sea, and made several voyages to the Baltic and Mediterranean . In 1823 he entered the Benedictine monastery of Downside, near Bath, taking the vows in 1825 . He was ordained priest in 1831, and in 1833 went to New South Wales, as vicar-general to Bishop William Morris (1794-1872), whose jurisdiction extended over the Australian missions . It was mainly Ullathorne who caused Gregory XVI. to establish the hierarchy in Australia . He returned to England in 1836, and, after another visit to Australia, settled in England in 1841, taking charge of the Roman Catholic mission at Coventry . He was consecrated bishop in 1847 as vicar-apostolic of the western district, in succession to Bishop C . M . Baggs (18o6-1845), but was transferred to the central district in the following year . On the re-establishment of the hierarchy in England Ullathorne became the first Roman Catholic bishop of Birmingham . During his thirty-eight years tenure of the see 67 new churches, 32 convents and nearly 200 mission schools were built . In 1888 he retired and received from Leo XIII. the honorary title of archbishop of Cabasa .

He died at Oscott

College on the 21st of March 1889 . Of his theological and philosophical works the best known are: The Endowments of Man (1882); The Groundwork of the Christian Virtues (1883); Christian Patience (1886) . For an account of his life see his Autobiography, edited by A . T . Drane (London, 189r) .