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Hume, Basil
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Hume, (George) Basil (1923–1999)

English Roman Catholic cardinal from 1976. A Benedictine monk, he was abbot of Ampleforth in Yorkshire 1963–76, and in 1976 became archbishop of Westminster, the first monk to hold the office.



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And famously, when the late Cardinal Basil Hume of Westminster ventured the opinion that the newly elected John Paul I had been "God's candidate," he was to be rudely confounded by the sudden death of that candidate just one month later.
Ultimately, and in no small part due to the efforts of the late Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume, the seven convictions were put aside.
Eventually Cardinal Basil Hume, head of the Catholic Church in England, wrote to Blair asking him to desist from taking the sacrament when he attended a Catholic mass.
 
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