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 Clifton was ordained as the eighth Bishop of Clifton. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Declan Lang who was born on 15 April 1950 in Cowes, Isle of Wight. Ordained in 1975 he was a priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth, serving as Vicar General from 1996. He was appointed the ninth Bishop of Clifton by Pope John Paul II on 27 February 2001. Roman Catholic Diocese of Clifton The Roman Catholic Diocese of Clifton is a Roman Catholic diocese centred on the Cathedral Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Clifton, England. The diocese covers the City