Roman Catholic Diocese of Newport and Menevia

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

• Thomas Joseph Brown, Benedictine Order , Titular Bishop of Apollonia

• Thomas Joseph Brown, O.S.B.
• John Cuthbert Hedley, O.S.B., succeeding as previous

• John Cuthbert Hedley, O.S.B..

  Titular see

• 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 .