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 Mary HarborneTown not recordedView parish
- St Mary HarvingtonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary Immaculate WarwickTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary LeekTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary Norton Le MoorTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary of the Angels AldridgeTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary on the Hill WednesburyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary StudleyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary UttoxeterTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary WalsallTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Mary WillenhallTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Michael and St James HauntonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Michael and the Holy Angels West BromwichTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Michael Sonning CommonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Michael WolverhamptonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Michaels BirminghamTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Nicholas Sutton ColdfieldTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Patrick CoventryTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Patrick StaffordTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Patrick WalsallTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Patrick WolverhamptonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Patricks BirminghamTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Patricks PackmoorTown not recordedView parish
- St Paul Kings NortonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Peter and St Paul and St Elizabeth CoughtonTown not recordedView parish
- St Peter and St Paul Pype HayesTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Peter and St Paul WolverhamptonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Peter and the English Martyrs Lower GornalTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Peter Apostle Leamington SpaTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Peter Bartley GreenTown 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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