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.
- Our Lady of the Caribbean Chapel Centre BirchfieldTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Our Lady of the Rosary and St Thrse of Lisieux SaltleyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Our Lady of the Sacred Heart BulkingtonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Our Lady of the Wayside ShirleyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Our Lady Queen of Peace WorcesterTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart and Our Lady Tenbury WellsTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria DroitwichTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart Blackbird Leys OxfordTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart CoventryTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart EccleshallTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart Four OaksTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart Henley on ThamesTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart RugbyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart SilverdaleTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart Stoke on TrentTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart TamworthTown not recordedMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart TunstallTown not recordedMass times recorded
- SS Peter and Paul BrailesTown not recordedMass times recorded
- SS Peter Paul LichfieldTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Ambrose Barlow Hall GreenTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Ambrose KidderminsterTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St AnneTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Anne NuneatonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Anne StaffordTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Anne StreetlyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Anne WappenburyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Anne WillenhallTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Annes Chelmsley WoodTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Anthony of Padua KingshurstTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Anthony of Padua OxfordTown 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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