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 Joseph CartertonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph DarlastonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph GoldenhillTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph MalvernTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph Monks KirbyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph ThameTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph the Worker BanburyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph the Worker Bidford on AvonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph the Worker CoventryTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph Upton on SevernTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph WarndonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph West BromwichTown not recordedView parish
- St Joseph WhitnashTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Joseph WolverhamptonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Josephs NechellsTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Jude MaypoleTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Margaret Mary Perry CommonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Maria Goretti Stoke on TrentTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Maries RugbyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Marks Gospel ReflectionsTown not recordedView parish
- St Mary AlvechurchTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary and St BenedictTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary and St Egwin EveshamTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary and St John ErdingtonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary and St John WolverhamptonTown not recordedView parish
- St Mary and St Modwen Burton on TrentTown not recordedView parish
- St Mary and St Thomas More CannockTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary BrewoodTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary Brierley HillTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary CresswellTown 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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