Diocese of Leeds
Loiden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Leeds, United Kingdom
The Diocese of Leeds is a Latin rite diocese covering West Yorkshire and adjacent areas in England, erected in 1878 from the division of the Diocese of Beverley. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Liverpool. Its seat is the Cathedral of St Anne in Leeds.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 December 1878
- Latin
- Loiden(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Wilfrid
- Annuario code
- 001001977
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 168,000
- Population
- 2,115,000
- Catholic share
- 7.9%
- Priests
- 187
- Catholics per priest
- 898
- Extent
- 4,921 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 34
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
- Marcus Stock
- Born
- 27 August 1961
- Birthplace
- London
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
Cathedral of St Anne, Leeds stands in Leeds, 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 LancasterLancaster
- Diocese of MiddlesbroughMiddlesbrough
- Diocese of SalfordSalford
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
When the Diocese of Beverley, until then responsible for all of Yorkshire, was split on 20 December 1878, the historic West Riding of Yorkshire went to the newly founded Diocese of Leeds (Latin: Dioecesis Loidensis), while diocesan organisation of the rest of the county passed to the Diocese of Middlesbrough. Leeds Cathedral, in the West Yorkshire city of Leeds, England, forms the centre of this Latin Church diocese of the Catholic 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].