Suffragan diocese Salford, United Kingdom
Diocese of Salford
Salforden(sis)
Latin Church
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).
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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.
- Our Lady of Perpetual SuccourBlackburnView parish
- Our Lady of the AssumptionMiddletonView parish
- Our Lady of the Immaculate ConceptionHaighView parish
- Sacred HeartBlackburnView parish
- Sacred HeartColneView parish
- Sacred HeartManchesterView parish
- Sacred HeartRochdaleView parish
- Sacred Heart and St WilliamUppermillMass times recorded
- Sacred Heart of JesusWesthoughtonMass times recorded
- Ss Aidan & OswaldRoytonView parish
- Ss Mary and John (Pleasington Priory)BlackburnView parish
- Ss Peter and PaulRibchesterMass times recorded
- St Agnes and St John FisherMiddletonView parish
- St AlbanBlackburnView parish
- St AlphonsusManchesterMass times recorded
- St AmbroseManchesterView parish
- St AnnAshton-under-LyneView parish
- St AnnStretford and Trafford ParkView parish
- St AnneManchesterView parish
- St AnneAccringtonMass times recorded
- St AnneBlackburnMass times recorded
- St AnselmWhitworth and BacupMass times recorded
- St AugustinePadihamView parish
- St BernadetteManchesterView parish
- St BernadetteWhitefieldView parish
- St BernardManchesterView parish
- St BrendanBoltonView parish
- St BrigidManchesterMass times recorded
- St Catherine of SienaManchesterMass times recorded
- St ChadManchesterView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
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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- Diocese of Salford holds Remembrance Mass
- Diocese of Salford hosts conference on poverty and injustice
- Neurodiversity: Awareness & Inclusion in Sacramental Programmes
- Diocese of Salford hosts Praise, Worship and Fellowship Night
- Diocese of Salford invites to talk on St Winefride’s Well
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