Roger William Bede Vaughan was an English Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey and the second Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Australia from 1877 to 1883.
15 Facts About Roger Vaughan
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In 1855, at his father's request and expense, Roger Vaughan was sent to Rome for further study under the guidance of the Italian scholar and reformer Angelo Zelli-Jacobuzzi.
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Roger Vaughan remained there for four years, living at the monastery of St Paul Outside the Walls.
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Roger Vaughan was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Patrizi in the basilica of St John Lateran on 9 April 1859.
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Roger Vaughan returned to Downside in August of the same year and in 1861 was appointed professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy at St Michael's, Belmont, Herefordshire.
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Roger Vaughan contributed to leading reviews and published his most important literary work, his Life of St Thomas of Aquin, in 1872.
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In 1865 he met Archbishop Polding, who several times asked Roger Vaughan to be coadjutor bishop, and in 5 February 1873, Roger Vaughan agreed and was appointed coadjutor of Sydney and titular bishop of Nazianzus.
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Roger Vaughan arrived at Sydney on 16 December 1873 and immediately devoted himself to two important movements: the provision of education for Catholic children and the rebuilding of St Mary's Cathedral which had been damaged by a previous fire.
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From 1874 onward, Roger Vaughan served as rector of St John's College.
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Roger Vaughan became Archbishop of Sydney on the death of Archbishop Polding, on 16 March 1877.
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Roger Vaughan initiated moves towards the foundation of St Patrick's Seminary, Manly, construction of which started soon after his death.
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Roger Vaughan experienced resistance from the largely Irish Catholic junior hierarchy and priesthood in Australia, who supported a church based on the devotional, penitential and authoritarian model envisioned by Irish Cardinal Paul Cullen.
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The consequences of the dissolution of monasteries during the Reformation had left Roger Vaughan deeply committed to the primary vision of restoring monasticism in English speaking lands such as this new church in Australia.
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Roger Vaughan left Sydney for the last time on 19 April 1883, intending to return to Rome.
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Roger Vaughan's remains were translated to Belmont in 1887 and reburied in the crypt of St Mary's Cathedral in August 1946.