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 Manchester Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester The Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester ("Diocensis Manchesteriensis" in Latin) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the region of New England in the United States, comprising the entire state of New Hampshire. It is a suffragan in the Latin Rite ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Boston, and its bishop is a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and its Region I (provinces of Boston and Hartford). Its leading prelate also serves as pastor of the mother church, the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Manchester. Pope Leo XIII