Titles (Ecclesiastical)

Titles (Ecclesiastical). By the (English) Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Act, 1851, the assumption of the title of archbishop or bishop of a pretended province or diocese, or archbishop or bishop of a city, place, or territory in England or Ireland, not being the see, province, or diocese of an archbishop or bishop, recognized by law, was prohibited under penalties; but this Act (which was passed after great public excitement, in consequence of the division of England into Roman Catholic dioceses by Pope Pius IX., under Cardinal Wiseman, as Archbishop of Westminster) was never enforced, and has been repealed by the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 1871.