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Suffragan diocese Salford, United Kingdom

Diocese of Salford

Salforden(sis)

The Diocese of Salford is a Latin rite diocese covering most of Greater Manchester and neighbouring parts of Lancashire in England, erected on 29 September 1850 from the Apostolic Vicariate of the Lancashire District at the restoration of the hierarchy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Liverpool. Its seat is Salford Cathedral (St John the Evangelist).

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Salford Cathedral, in Salford, United Kingdom.

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Established
1850
Catholics
294,000
Priests
251
Territory
1,600 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
John Arnold

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The cathedral

Salford Cathedral stands in Salford, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Centred on the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, the Diocese of Salford (Latin: Dioecesis Salfordensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church. Founded in 1852 among the first post-Reformation Catholic dioceses in Great Britain, it has belonged to the Province of Liverpool since 1911. Its present boundaries take in Manchester along with a large part of North West England between the River Mersey and the River Ribble, some parishes north of the Ribble, and Todmorden in West Yorkshire. As of 2005 the diocese counted 207 churches and chapels.

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