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John Henry] Newman's Congregation of Oratorians at Edgbaston. In May Ullathorne went to Adelaide, interviewed the governor and assembled the Catholics. Governor Bourke, McEncroe and the leading Catholic laymen were all relieved to have Ullathorne's clear business head in charge. There is Bishop Ullathorne Remote Control School in Coventry which is named after him.

Of Ullathorne"s theological and philosophical works the best known are The Endowments of Manitoba (1882).

The Groundwork of the Christian Virtues (1883).

By Christmas St Mary's was in use and Ullathorne had visited the Hunter River and Bathurst; next year he visited Norfolk Island and the Illawarra district. In 1823 Ullathorne entered the monastery of Downside Abbey, taking the vows in 1825.

He was ordained priest in 1831, and in 1833 went to New South Wales as vicar-general to Bishop William Placid Morris (1794–1872), whose jurisdiction extended over the Australian missions.

at Oscott, Warwickshire, 21 March, 1889. By July the Legislative Council made grants for the appointment of four new chaplains, the completion of three unfinished churches, and £800 a year for schools and schoolteachers. He likewise visited the convict settlement on Norfolk Island, which he describes as "the most beautiful spot in the universe", and his ministrations to those who were condemned to death, as well as to the others, had most consoling results.

In Rome, without patronage and conspicuously young, he spent his best energies on preparing a report for the Sacred Congregation De Propaganda Fide, which won him the warm approval of Gregory XVI and a doctorate of divinity. Opportunity for action came with the appointment of the liberal (Sir) Richard Bourke as governor of New South Wales in 1831 and the consecration in 1832 of W.

P. Morris as vicar-apostolic of Mauritius, a mission embracing Australia.

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On 8 and 12 February 1838 Ullathorne gave evidence to the Molesworth committee on transportation to the effect that the system had failed altogether as a means of reformation of convicts. At both places they were working independently and without any kind of supervision. Ullathorne was summoned by Cardinal Weld to Rome, where he arrived in March, just before the cardinal's death.

He had already drawn out a scheme for a regular hierarchy, rendered possible by the remarkable and rapid increase in numbers and organization, and when Dr. Polding went to Rome he obtained its substantial adoption. In 1888 Ullathorne retired from his diocese to Oscott College, where he died on 21 March 1889.

Australia had forced him to cultivate an independent judgment in matters of dogmatic, moral and apologetic theology alike, and had given him opportunities to form friendships among the English, Irish and Roman prelates scarcely ever granted so young a priest.

On his landing, he found himself the centre of obloquy, on account of his evidence on the convict question, for it was supposed to be detrimental to the colony, which thrived on the free labour of the convicts. My email address is webmaster at newadvent.org. He also published "Reply to Judge Burton on Religion in Australia" (Sydney, 1835); "La Salette" (1854); "The Immaculate Conception" (1855); "History of Restoration of English Hierarchy" (1871); "The Döllingerites" (1874); "Answer to Gladstone's 'Vatican Decrees'" (1875); and a large number of sermons, pastorals, pamphlets, etc.

Sources

For the first half of his life (to 1850), see his Autobiography, edited after his death by THEODOSIA DRANE, of Stone Convent (1891); for the second half, see his Letters, edited by the same (1892).

Here he used his energy in building a handsome new church; but after a stay of three years he had once more to move, being appointed Vicar Apostolic of the Western District of England, with the title of Bishop of Hetalona. His failure to enlist English priests in 1837-38, his success in Ireland, and the warm friendships he then formed wlth several Irish prelates convinced him that ecclesiastically Australia must become a colony of Ireland, and could never be, as he said, 'Benedictinized'.

Eng. Cath., s.v., with fuller enumeration of Ullathorne's works; MAZIERE BRADY, Catholic Hierarchy; Bishop Ullathorne Number of The Oscotian (London, 1886); GLANCEY, Characteristics from the Writings of Archbishop Ullathorne (London, 1889); KENNY, Hist.