Francis Bourne
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His Eminence Francis Bourne |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster | |
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Cardinal Bourne
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| Province | Westminster |
| Diocese | Westminster |
| Appointed | 11 September 1903 |
| Term ended | 1 January 1935 |
| Predecessor | Herbert Vaughan |
| Successor | Arthur Hinsley |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana |
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| Ordination | 11 June 1884 |
| Consecration | 1 May 1896 by Herbert Vaughan |
| Created Cardinal | 27 November 1911 |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Francis Alphonsus Bourne |
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23 March 1861 Clapham, Surrey, England |
| Died | 1 January 1935 (aged 73) London, England |
| Buried | St. Edmund's College, Ware, Hertfordshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
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Francis Alphonsus Bourne (1861–1935) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1903 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1911.
Born in Clapham to an English Civil Servant father and an Irish mother, Francis Bourne entered St. Cuthbert College at Ushaw Moor, County Durham in 1867 and then St. Edmund's College in Ware in 1877. He joined the Order of Friars Preachers, more commonly known as the Dominicans, in Woodchester but left in 1880. From 1880 to 1881 he attended St. Thomas' Seminary in Hammersmith, and then went to study in France at Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Paris and the University of Leuven. While in Paris, he met the Italian saint Don Bosco, and considered joining Don Bosco's Salesian Order.
He was ordained to the priesthood on 11 June 1884, and then did pastoral work in Blackheath, Mortlake, and West Grinstead until 1889. Bourne was rector of the House of Studies at Henfield Place from 1889 to 1891, at which time he began teaching at St. John's Seminary in Wonersh, of which he became rector on 14 March 1896. He was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness by Pope Leo XIII in 1895.
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