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Metropolitan see Birmingham, United Kingdom

Archdiocese of Birmingham

Birminghamien(sis)

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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Esri
The address the register holds for Metropolitan Cathedral of St Chad, Birmingham, in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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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.

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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.

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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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