Joseph William Hendren, O.F.M.  (1791–1866) was an English

English people

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 Roman Catholic bishop

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. He served three ecclesiastical jurisdictions, first as the Vicar Apostolic of the Western District (1848–1850), then Bishop of Clifton

Bishop of Clifton

The Bishop of Clifton is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clifton in the Province of Birmingham, England.The see is in the suburb of Clifton in the city of Bristol where the bishop's seat is located at the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter and Paul...

 (1850–1851), and finally Bishop of Nottingham

Bishop of Nottingham

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 (1851–1853).

Born in Birmingham

Birmingham

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 on 19 October 1791, he was ordained

Holy Orders

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 a priest

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 in the Order of Friars Minor on 28 September 1815. He was appointed the Vicar Apostolic of the Western District and Titular Bishop

Titular bishop

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 of Verinopolis on 28 July 1848. His consecration

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 to the Episcopate

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 took place on 10 September 1848, the principal consecrator

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 was William Bernard Ullathorne

William Bernard Ullathorne

William Bernard Ullathorne was an English Roman Catholic bishop and a missionary in Australia.-Early life:William Ullathorne was born in Pocklington, Yorkshire, the eldest of ten children of William Ullathorne, a prosperous grocer, draper and spirit merchant, and his wife Hannah, née Longstaff...

, and the principal co-consecrators were John Briggs and Nicholas Wiseman.

On the restoration of the Catholic Hierarchy in England and Wales

Universalis Ecclesiae

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, the Western District was divided into the dioceses of Clifton

Roman Catholic Diocese of Clifton

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 and Plymouth. Hendren was appointed the first Bishop of Clifton

Bishop of Clifton

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 on 29 September 1850. The following year, he was appointed the first Bishop to the Diocese of Nottingham on 22 June 1851 and installed on 2 December 1851. He resigned as Bishop of Nottingham

Bishop of Nottingham (Roman Catholic)

The Bishop of Nottingham is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham in the Province of Westminster.The diocese covers an area of and spans the counties of Derbyshire , Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and North Lincolnshire...

 on 23 February 1853 and appointed Titular Bishop of Martyropolis

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.

He died on 14 November 1866, aged 75.