Diocese of Lancaster
Lancastren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Lancaster, United Kingdom
The Diocese of Lancaster is a Latin rite diocese covering Cumbria and northwestern Lancashire in England, erected in 1924 from territory of the Archdiocese of Liverpool and the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Liverpool. Its seat is St Peter's Cathedral in Lancaster.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 November 1924
- Latin
- Lancastren(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Lourdes and St Cuthbert
- Annuario code
- 001001944
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 101,700
- Population
- 1,232,000
- Catholic share
- 8.3%
- Priests
- 95
- Catholics per priest
- 1,071
- Extent
- 2,900 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 35
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Paul Swarbrick
- Born
- 2 July 1958
- Birthplace
- Preston
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St Peter's Cathedral, Lancaster stands in Lancaster, 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.
The province of Liverpool
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Liverpool.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LiverpoolLiverpool
- Diocese of HallamHallam
- Diocese of Hexham and NewcastleHexham and Newcastle
- Diocese of LeedsLeeds
- Diocese of MiddlesbroughMiddlesbrough
- Diocese of SalfordSalford
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Lancaster Cathedral, in the Lancashire city of Lancaster, England, anchors the Diocese of Lancaster (Latin: Dioecesis Lancastrensis), a Roman Catholic diocese of the Latin Church.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].