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Metropolitan see Liverpool, United Kingdom

Archdiocese of Liverpool

Liverpolitan(us)

Latin Church

The Archdiocese of Liverpool is a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese covering Merseyside, parts of Lancashire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester, and the Isle of Man. Erected as a diocese in 1850 at the restoration of the hierarchy, it was elevated to an archdiocese in 1911 and heads the northern Province of Liverpool. Its seat is the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool, with St Mary of the Isle (Isle of Man) as co-cathedral.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

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Established
1850
Catholics
505,000
Priests
215
Territory
1,165 km²

Parishes and churches

124 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
John Sherrington
Born
5 January 1958
Birthplace
Leicester

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The cathedral

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King stands in Liverpool, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is St Mary of the Isle, Douglas, Isle of Man.

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History

The Isle of Man and part of North West England fall within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Liverpool (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Liverpolitana), a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church. Its episcopal see is Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, and it stands at the centre of the Ecclesiastical Province of Liverpool, which covers the north of England together with the Isle of Man.

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