Diocese of Portsmouth
Portus magni
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Portsmouth, United Kingdom
The Diocese of Portsmouth is a Latin rite diocese covering Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, the Channel Islands and parts of Berkshire, Dorset and Oxfordshire in England, erected on 19 May 1882 from the western portion of the Diocese of Southwark. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Southwark. Its seat is the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist in Portsmouth.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 May 1882
- Latin
- Portus magni
- Patron
- St Edmund of Abingdon and the Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001002652
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 235,000
- Priests
- 115
- Catholics per priest
- 2,043
- Extent
- 6,339 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 37
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
- Philip Egan
- Born
- 14 November 1955
- Birthplace
- Altrincham
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 John the Evangelist, Portsmouth stands in Portsmouth, 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 Southwark
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Southwark.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of SouthwarkSouthwark
- Diocese of Arundel and BrightonArundel and Brighton
- Diocese of PlymouthPlymouth
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The historic counties of Hampshire and Berkshire in England, together with the Channel Islands, make up the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth (Latin: Dioecesis Portus Magni), a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church. St John's Cathedral in Portsmouth is the episcopal see, headed by the Bishop of Portsmouth. The diocese belongs to the metropolitan Province of Southwark, whose reach covers all of the far South of England as well as the Channel Islands.
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].