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 Peter BloxwichTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Peter BromsgroveTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Peter EynshamTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Philip Neri SmethwickTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Richard and St Hubert HadzorTown not recordedView parish
- St Saviour BroadwayTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Stanislaus Kostka CoventryTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Teresa of Lisieux CharlburyTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Teresa of the Child Jesus Perry BarrTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Teresa of the Child Jesus Trent ValeTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Teresa of the Infant Jesus WolverhamptonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Thomas and St Edmund of Canterbury ErdingtonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Thomas More Catholic Primary WalsallTown not recordedView parish
- St Thomas More CoventryTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Thomas More KidlingtonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Thomas More SheldonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Thomas of Canterbury TeanTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Thomas of Canterbury TettenhallTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Thomas of Canterbury WalsallTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Thomas of Canterbury WroxtonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Vincent de PaulTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Volodymyr the Great CoventryTown not recordedView parish
- St Volodymyr the Great WolverhamptonTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St WilfridTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Wulstan and St Thomas of Canterbury StourportTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Wulstan Little MalvernTown not recordedMass times recorded
- St Wulstan WolstantonTown 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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