James II of England James II of England James II and VII (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland. The second surviving son of Charles I, he ascended the throne upon the death of his brother, Charles II. Members of Britain's Protestant political elite increasingly suspected him of being pro-French and pro-Catholic and of having designs on becoming an absolute monarch. When
Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, Ontario Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, Ontario The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton () is a suffragan Latin bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. The diocesan cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King, dedicated to Christ the King in 1933, in Hamilton, Ontario. <br>It also has a former Cathedral, St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, also in Hamilton and the Minor Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate, in Guelph, Ontario. As per 2014, it pastorally served 626,723 Catholics (28.5% of 2,201,155 total) on 16,824 km² in 124 parishes and 1 mission