Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman was an English Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Westminster upon the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales
Photograph c. 1860s
Birthplace of Cardinal Wiseman, 5 Calle Fabiola, Seville, Spain
Cardinal Wiseman, daguerreotype by Mathew Brady studio
Universalis Ecclesiae was a papal bull of 29 September 1850 by which Pope Pius IX recreated the Roman Catholic diocesan hierarchy in England, which had been extinguished with the death of the last Mar
Nicholas Wiseman
…Stephen Wiseman (3 August 1802 – 15 February 1865) was an English Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Westminster upon the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850. He was made a cardinal in 1850. Born in Seville to Irish parents, Wiseman was educated at a school in Waterford before…
The restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England in 1850 provoked strong reaction. This Punch cartoon, published in November of that year, depicts the Pope as "The Guy Fawkes of 1850 – preparing to blow up all England!"