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James Yorke Bramston (15 March 1763 – 11 July 1836) was an English Catholic prelate who served as Vicar Apostolic of the London District from 1827 until his death in 1836.
The Right Reverend James Yorke Bramston | |
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Vicar Apostolic of the London District | |
See | London District |
Appointed | 4 February 1823 (Coadjutor) |
Installed | 26 November 1827 |
Term ended | 11 July 1836 |
Predecessor | William Poynter |
Successor | Thomas Griffiths |
Other post(s) | Titular Bishop of Usula |
Orders | |
Ordination | 1801 |
Consecration | 29 June 1823 by William Poynter |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | 11 July 1836 73) London, England | (aged
Nationality | English |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Alma mater | English College, Lisbon |
Born in Oundle, Northamptonshire, Bramston was educated at Oundle School and Lincoln's Inn, where he studied for nearly four years under the Roman Catholic conveyancer Charles Butler,[1] and became a lawyer.[2]
Following his conversion to Catholicism in 1790, he studied theology at the English College, Lisbon and was ordained a priest in 1801.[3] He then worked as a missionary in the apostolic vicariates of the Midland District and the London District, of which he became vicar general in 1812.[4]
On 4 February 1823, Bramston was appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of the London District and Titular Bishop of Usula by Pope Pius VII.[3] He received his episcopal consecration on the following 29 June from Bishop William Poynter, with Bishops Peter Collingridge, O.F.M., and Peter Augustine Baines, O.S.B., serving as co-consecrators.[3] He succeeded Bishop Poynter as Vicar Apostolic of the London District upon the latter's death on 26 November 1827.[3]
In 1834, in his private chapel in London, Bramston consecrated as a bishop the Benedictine Bede Polding, vicar apostolic of New Holland, Van Diemen's Land and the adjoining islands,[5]
By 1835, London contained 16 churches, 35 priests, and 150,000 Catholics.[4]
Bramston died at age 73 on 11 July 1836. His funeral Mass was held at St. Mary's Church in Moorfields, where he was buried; his heart, however, was interred at St Edmund's College, Ware.[6]
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