Thomas Smith (vicar apostolic)
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Thomas Smith was an English
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 Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District from 1821 to 1831.

He was born on 21 March 1763, the son of James Smith of the Brooms, near Lanchester
Lanchester, County Durham
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, County Durham
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. Thomas was ordained
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 to the priesthood
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 in 1788 by Louis-François-Marc Hilaire de Conzié, Bishop of Arras
Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras
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. He was appointed coadjutor
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 to William Gibson
William Gibson (bishop)
William Gibson was an English Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District from 1790 to 1821.Born in Stonecroft, near Hexham, Northumberland on 2 February 1738, the son of Jasper Gibson and Margaret Gibson . He was ordained to the priesthood in 1764...

, Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District, the Briefs
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 for the coadjutorship and Titular See
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 of Bolina were dated on 15 May 1807. However, the mandate for his consecration
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 was lost in transrnission to England, and a fresh mandate was applied for in July 1808. He was consecrated Titular Bishop
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 of Bolina
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at St. Edmund's College, Ware
St. Edmund's College, Ware
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 by Bishop William Poynter
William Poynter
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 on 10 March 1810, attended by bishops Gibson
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 and Collingridge
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 as co-consecrator
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s. On the death of Bishop Gibson
William Gibson (bishop)
William Gibson was an English Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District from 1790 to 1821.Born in Stonecroft, near Hexham, Northumberland on 2 February 1738, the son of Jasper Gibson and Margaret Gibson . He was ordained to the priesthood in 1764...

 on 2 June 1821, Bishop Smith automatically succeeded as Vicar Apostolic of the Nothern District.

After ten years and in poor health, he wrote on 5 July 1831 to Cardinal Lorenzo Litta
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, Prefect
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 of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, asking to resign his charge of the Northern District, but before it was granted Bishop Smith died at Ushaw College
Ushaw College
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on 30 July 1831, aged 68. He was buried in the grounds of Ushaw College on 2 August 1831.
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