Suffragan diocese Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Diocese of Portsmouth
Portus magni
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 1882
- Catholics
- 235,000
- Priests
- 115
- Territory
- 6,339 km²
Parishes and churches
79 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Our Lady of the Assumption and St BrigidTown not recordedView parish
- Our Lady of the Assumption and St Edward the ConfessorTown not recordedView parish
- Our Lady Queen of Peace & Blessed Margaret PoleTown not recordedView parish
- Portsmouth CathedralTown not recordedView parish
- Sacred HeartTown not recordedView parish
- Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary and St MichaelTown not recordedView parish
- St AnneTown not recordedView parish
- St Anne and St Mary MagdalenTown not recordedView parish
- St Bernard and St MichaelTown not recordedView parish
- St BonifaceTown not recordedView parish
- St Colman and St PaulTown not recordedView parish
- St Columba and St MaryTown not recordedView parish
- St DavidTown not recordedView parish
- St EdmundTown not recordedView parish
- St Edmund CampionTown not recordedView parish
- St Edward and St MarkTown not recordedView parish
- St Francis of AssisiTown not recordedView parish
- St James and St William of YorkTown not recordedView parish
- St John BoscoTown not recordedView parish
- St John FisherTown not recordedView parish
- St John Fisher and St John the BaptistTown not recordedView parish
- St John the EvangelistTown not recordedView parish
- St John Vianney and The Sacred HeartTown not recordedView parish
- St JosephTown not recordedView parish
- St Joseph and St EdmundTown not recordedView parish
- St Joseph and St Margaret ClitherowTown not recordedView parish
- St Joseph and St MaryTown not recordedView parish
- St Joseph and St Thomas of Canterbury and St Thomas MoreTown not recordedView parish
- St LaurenceTown not recordedView parish
- St Margaret MaryTown not recordedView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Philip Egan
- Born
- 14 November 1955
- Birthplace
- Altrincham
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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.
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.
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