Herbert Vaughan
Herbert Alfred Henry Joseph Thomas Vaughan MHM (15 April 1832 – 19 June 1903) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1892 until his death in 1903, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1893. He was the founder in 1866 of St Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society, known best as the Mill Hill Missionaries. He also founded the Catholic Truth Society and St. Bede's College, Manchester. As Archbishop of Westminster, he led the capital campaign and construction of Westminster Cathedral.
Herbert Vaughan MHM | |
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Vaughan, 1890s | |
| Church | Catholic |
| Province | Westminster |
| Diocese | Westminster |
| Appointed | 8 April 1892 |
| Term ended | 19 June 1903 |
| Predecessor | Henry Edward Manning |
| Successor | Francis Bourne |
| Other post(s) | Cardinal-Priest of Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 28 October 1854 by Giulio Arrigoni |
| Consecration | 28 October 1872 by Henry Edward Manning |
| Created cardinal | 16 January 1893 by Leo XIII |
| Rank | Cardinal-priest |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Herbert Alfred Vaughan 15 April 1832 Gloucester, United Kingdom |
| Died | 19 June 1903 (aged 71) Mill Hill, United Kingdom |
| Buried | Westminster Cathedral |
| Previous post(s) | Bishop of Salford (1872–1892) |
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In 1871 Vaughan sent a group of Mill Hill priests to the United States to minister to freedmen. In 1893, the American branch of the society spun off, with Vaughan's permission, to form the Society of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, whose members are known as Josephites.