Francis Vaughan
Francis John Vaughan (5 May 1877 – 13 March 1935) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Menevia from 1926 to 1935.
Vaughan was born in , Welsh Bicknor, Herefordshire. An uncle was Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster until 1903. Two other uncles from this traditionally Welsh recusant family served as bishops, one as Archbishop of Sydney.
Vaughan was ordained to the priesthood on 5 July 1903. He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Menevia by the Holy See on 21 June 1926. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 8 September 1926, the principal consecrator was Archbishop Francis Mostyn of Cardiff, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Joseph Thorman of Hexham and Newcastle and Bishop Thomas Dunn of Nottingham. He was installed on 14 September 1926.[1]
He died in office on 13 March 1935, aged 57.[1]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b "Bishop Francis John Vaughan". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
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- 1877 births
- 1935 deaths
- 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Wales
- People from Herefordshire
- Roman Catholic bishops of Menevia