Universalis Ecclesiae

Universalis Ecclesiae (Latin: the universal Church ) is a Zirkumskriptionsbulle September 29, 1850, with their assigns Pope Pius IX. the restoration of the church hierarchy in England.

The Pope established that the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the ecclesiastical province Westminster and twelve suffragan dioceses should be. In Scotland three Apostolic Vicariate were built, which divided into the eastern, western and northern Vicariate of Scotland. For Gibraltar own vicariate was erected.