Bishopric of Brentwood

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Bishopric of Brentwood
Basic data
Country United Kingdom
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Westminster
Diocesan bishop Alan Williams SM
Emeritus diocesan bishop Thomas McMahon
Vicar General John Armitage
David Manson
founding 1917
surface 3,967 km²
Parishes 91 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Residents 2,789,000 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Catholics 225,700 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
proportion of 8.1%
Diocesan priest 106 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Religious priest 48 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Catholics per priest 1,466
Permanent deacons 11 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Friars 60 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Religious sisters 233 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language English
cathedral Cathedral Church of St. Mary and St. Helen
Website www.dioceseofbrentwood.net
Ecclesiastical province
Map of the ecclesiastical province

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brentwood ( lat. : Dioecesis Brentvoodensis ) is in United Kingdom situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Brentwood .

history

Pope Benedict XV founded the diocese on July 20, 1917 with the Apostolic Constitution Universalis Ecclesiae from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Westminster , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese.

territory

The diocese of Brentwood includes the county of Essex , the Unitary Authorities Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock and the London Boroughs Barking and Dagenham , Havering , Newham , Redbridge and Waltham Forest .

Bishops of Brentwood

statistics

year
 
 
 
population priest Permanent deacons
 
 
Religious Parishes
 
 
 
Catholics Residents % Total number Diocesan priest Religious priest Catholics per priest Friars Religious sisters
1950 82,260 1,759,210 4.7 154 94 60 534 80 642 57
1959 125.259 2,170,000 5.8 166 104 62 754 78 674 77
1969 173.875 2,800,000 6.2 207 143 64 839 88 700 89
1980 187.075 3,250,000 5.8 194 137 57 964 3 73 570 93
1990 200,500 2,500,000 8.0 170 115 55 1,179 7th 66 430 97
1999 202,874 2,659,000 7.6 153 110 43 1,325 8th 48 371 95
2000 202,870 2,659,000 7.6 156 114 42 1,300 8th 45 371 95
2001 207.074 2,659,000 7.8 154 113 41 1,344 8th 42 380 92
2002 132,611 2,659,000 5.0 153 113 40 866 8th 44 373 94
2003 218,942 2,703,054 8.1 149 110 39 1,469 9 48 373 90
2004 222.719 2,710,000 8.2 150 110 40 1,484 8th 47 365 89

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