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.
- St Anthony of Padua WolverhamptonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Augustine of Canterbury CoventryTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Augustine of Canterbury MeirTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Augustine of England HandsworthTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Augustine of England KenilworthTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Augustine SolihullTown not recordedView parish
- St Austin StaffordTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Benedict AtherstoneTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Bernadette BrownhillsTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Bernadette WombourneTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Birinus Dorchester on ThamesTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Catherine of Siena BirminghamTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Catherine With St Chad WalsallTown not recordedView parish
- St Chad and All Saints SedgleyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Chads CathedralTown not recordedView parish
- St Chads SanctuaryTown not recordedView parish
- St Charles Borromeo Hampton on the HillTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St ChristopherTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Christopher TutburyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Dunstan Kings HeathTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Edmund and St Frideswide OxfordTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Edmund Campion WatlingtonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Edward Selly OakTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Elizabeth CoventryTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Filumena CaverswallTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Francis de Sales YoxallTown not recordedView parish
- St Francis HandsworthTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Francis of Assisi Baddesley ClintonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Francis of Assisi BedworthTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Francis of Assisi KenilworthTown 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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