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 Francis of Assisi KinetonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Francis of Assisi ShelfieldTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Francis Xavier OldburyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St George and St Martin Stoke on TrentTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St George and St Teresa DorrigeTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St George WorcesterTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Gerards Castle ValeTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St GilesTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Gregory and St Augustine OxfordTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Gregory Stoke on TrentTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Gregory the Great Stratford Upon AvonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Hugh of Lincoln WoodstockTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St John and St MartinTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St John Fisher and St Thomas More BurfordTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St John Fisher and St Thomas More FeckenhamTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St John Fisher CoventryTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St John Fisher West HeathTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St John the Baptist AltonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St John the Baptist Great HaywoodTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St John the Baptist KingshurstTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St John the Baptist TamworthTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St John the Evangelist BanburyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St John the Evangelist ChestertonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St John Vianney CoventryTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph and St Etheldreda RugeleyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph and St Helen Kings NortonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph ArleyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph Avon DassettTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph BurntwoodTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph BurslemTown 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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