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unusual facts about John Leyburn


John Leyburn

Both prelates were committed to prison, Leyburn being sent to the Tower of London.


Vicar Apostolic of the London District

It was only in 1685 that a successor was appointed by Rome, in the person of John Leyburn, a Doctor of Divinity of the Sorbonne and a former President of the English College at Douai, who was consecrated bishop in Rome on 9 September 1685.


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