Metropolitan see Birmingham, United Kingdom
Archdiocese of Birmingham
Birminghamien(sis)
Latin Church
The Archdiocese of Birmingham is a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese in the English Midlands, erected as a diocese in 1850 at the restoration of the hierarchy and elevated to an archdiocese in 1911. It heads the Province of Birmingham. Its seat is the Metropolitan Cathedral of St Chad in Birmingham.
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- Established
- 1850
- Catholics
- 443,300
- Priests
- 214
- Territory
- 8,735 km²
Parishes and churches
237 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Blessed Dominic Barberi OxfordTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Blessed Robert Grissold Balsall CommonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Christ the King and Our Lady of Lourdes CoventryTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Christ the King WoodcoteTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Christ the Kings KingstandingTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Corpus Christi HeadingtonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Corpus Christi StechfordTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Corpus Christi WolverhamptonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- English Martyrs BiddulphTown not recordedMass times recorded
- English Martyrs BlackheathTown not recordedMass times recorded
- English Martyrs RugbyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- English Martyrs SparkhillTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Cross and St Francis WalmleyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Cross LichfieldTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Cross West BromwichTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Family BewdleyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Family CoventryTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Family Small HeathTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Ghost and Mary Immaculate Olton Friary OltonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Michael Archangel Aston By StoneTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Name of Jesus Great BarrTown not recordedView parish
- Holy Redeemer PershoreTown not recordedView parish
- Holy Trinity BilstonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Trinity Chipping NortonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Trinity HetheTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Trinity Newcastle under LymeTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Trinity Sutton ColdfieldTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Holy Trinity WolverhamptonTown not recordedView parish
- Immaculate Conception BicesterTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Our Lady and All Saints StourbridgeTown not recordedMass times recorded
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Bernard Longley
- Born
- 5 April 1955
- Birthplace
- Manchester
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The cathedral
Metropolitan Cathedral of St Chad, Birmingham stands in Birmingham, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Among the principal Latin Church dioceses of the Catholic Church in England and Wales stands the Archdiocese of Birmingham. Its territory of 3,373 square miles (8,740 km2) takes in the historic counties of Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire. The metropolitan see rests in the City of Birmingham at the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Saint Chad, and the province embraces the suffragan dioceses of Clifton and Shrewsbury.
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- Father Forgive - “Love one another as I have loved you”
- Archdiocese of Birmingham announces pilgrimage to Fatima
- Archdiocese of Birmingham promotes Prisons Week
- Social Action evidently in action across the Archdiocese of Birmingham
- Archbishop Moth urges rejection of assisted suicide bill
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