Cardinal Canizares-Llovera

Arms of H.E. Cardinal Canizares-Llovera prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and the discipline of the Sacraments.

Cardenal Woolsey

Arms of the English Cardinal Woolsey

Kingdom of Spain

Modern arms of the kingdom of Spain

Royal Arms of Monaco

Christopher Columbus

The Arms of Christopher Columbus Admiral of the Oceans.
Discoverer of the Americas.

Carlist Royal Arms

The Royal Arms of Spain
used by the Carlist pretender to the Throne.

Saint Wilfrid of York

Coat of Arms of Saint Wilfrid Archbishop of York

This coat of arms has been regarded, at least since the fifteenth century, as those of St. Wilfrid one time archbishop of York. It is not easy to say just why it was assigned to him, perhaps; however, it is more than fancy which sees in this reticulated charge some suggestion of a fishing-net. For St. Wilfrid was not only a great fisher of men. The tale of how in the days of his banishment he showed the starving Sussex folk the plenteous store of food that the sea held for them is well known. Perhaps too in the seven sharp summits of the lozenges of his shield there may be a hint of our saint’s devotion to the See of Rome, as if those points referred to the seven hills of the eternal city.

Letizia, Princess of Asturias

H. R. H., Doña Letizia,

Princess of Asturias,
Princess of Gerona,
Princess of Viana,
Duchess of Montblanc,
Countess of Cervera
and Lady of Balaguer.

Arms of Saint Josemaria Escriva

• Born on the 9th of January 1902 at Barbastro, Spain.
• Ordained in Saragossa on 28 March 1925.
• Founded Opus Dei in Madrid on 2 October 1928.
• Founded the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross on 14 February 1943.
• Died on the 26th of June 1975.
• Beatified by Pope John Paul II on May 7, 1992.
• Elevated to the honor of the Altar on October 6, 2002.
  

Diocese of Scranton

Arms of the Rev. W. Comellas,
Priest of the Diocese of Scranton

Archdiocese of Washington DC

Fr. Marco Schad Archdiocese of Washington DC

Newark:

The Rev. Father Ernest Rush priest of the Archdiocese of Newark

Archdiocese of Newark

The Rev. Fr. Michael Barone
Archdiocese of Newark

Archdiocese of Birmingham

The Diocese of Birmingham was elevated to the rank of an archdiocese on the 28^th of October 1911. The territory of the archdiocese covers the counties of Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

The Archdiocese of Westminster

The archdiocese was created by the Bull "Universalis Ecclesiae of Pope Pius IX from the ancient Apostolic Vicariate of London District, on September 29. Today Archdiocese’s territory consists of all the London boroughs north of the River Thames and west of the River Lea, together with the towns southwest of Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames, and the County of Hertfordshire, which lies immediately to London's north. The suffragan sees of Westminster are the dioceses of Brentwood, East Anglia, Nottingham, and Northampton.

The current archbishop is Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, who was installed as tenth Archbishop of Westminster on March 22, 2000. He was raised to the rank of Cardinal Priest of the Title of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva by Pope John Paul II on February 21, 2001.

Nicholas Wiseman, the last Vicar Apostolic of the London District, was appointed first archbishop upon the creation of the archdiocese and raised at the same time to the dignity of the college of Cardinals.

Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor

The Catholic Church in England and Wales (In Modern Times)

The Catholic Church in Great Britain today is a resurrected church. After the tragic events of the reformation in which the political authorities of Britain found it opportune to separate the British people from the Roman See, the state proceeded to create a national church which adopted a generic Protestantism for its creed but preserved the outward episcopal structure of ecclesiastical government.

The Faith became the object of a virulent persecution which lasted almost three hundred years and produced not a small number of martyrs from every social class in the kingdom. Catholics nevertheless persevered, albeit in dramatically reduced numbers. By the middle of the XIX century the remnant of the ancient church, its numbers reinvigorated to a good degree by immigration from Ireland and France, as well as conversions from the general English population, resurrected all the structures of public worship. It is regrettable but understandable given the profound prejudice of the protestant establishment in Britain, and its necessity to cling on to any vestige of historical authenticity, and continuity with the medieval English church, that upon the re-erection of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales, Parliament sought fit to forbid Catholics the use of the names and territorial dimension of the ancient dioceses of the realm.

Forced to re-draw the ecclesiastical map of the Catholic Church in Britain, the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales now found themselves Shepards not of Canterbury, York or London, but rather of Westminster, Liverpool and East Anglia. A small price to pay in exchange for the opportunity of restoring Britain once again to the orbit of the barge of Peter.

Today the Church in England and Wales is divided into five provinces, one Apostolic Exarchate for the Ukrainians, the Military prelacy, and twenty-two dioceses.

The Angelic Pastor

Pope Pius XII
Elected 1939 - Died 1958

Pope-Prisoners of the Vatican

Pope Pius IX
Elected 1846 - Died 1878

Pope Leo XIII

Elected 1878 - Died 1903

Pope Saint Pius X

Elected 1903 - Died1914

Pope Benedict XV
Elected 1914 - Died 1922

Pope Pius XI

Elected 1922 - Died1939

The Popes of Vatican II

John Paul II
Elected 1978-Died 2005

Pope John Paul I
Elected and Died 1978


Pope Paul VI
Elected1963 - Died 1978


Pope John XXIII
Elected 1959 - Died 1963

Gloriously Reigning

His Holiness Benedict XVI
Elected 2005
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Bishop of Rome

Vicar of Christ

Successor of the Prince of the Apostles

Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church

Primate of Italy

Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province

Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City

Servant of the Servants of God