Catholicism received a huge numerical boost in the 1840s and 1850s with an influx of Irish Catholics fleeing the Great Irish Famine, leading to the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850, and the re-establishment of the Catholic hierachy in Scotland in 1878.
Catholicism received a huge numerical boost in the 1840s and 1850s with an influx of Irish Catholics fleeing the Great Irish Famine. Catholicism was leading to the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850 in 1878. Catholicism was leading to the re-establishment of the re-establishment of the Catholic hierachy in Scotland in 1878.