Diocese of Salford
Salforden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Salford, United Kingdom
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).
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 September 1850
- Latin
- Salforden(sis)
- Patron
- St Joseph and Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- Annuario code
- 001002849
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 294,000
- Population
- 2,800,000
- Catholic share
- 10.5%
- Priests
- 251
- Catholics per priest
- 1,171
- Extent
- 1,600 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 184
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
- John Arnold
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
Salford Cathedral stands in Salford, 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 LeedsLeeds
- Diocese of MiddlesbroughMiddlesbrough
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
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].