Diocese of Menevia
| Diocese of Menevia | |
| Basic data | |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Cardiff Archdiocese |
| Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
| Apostolic Administrator | George Stack |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop |
John Mark Jabalé OSB Thomas Matthew Burns SM |
| founding | 1898 |
| surface | 9,611 km² |
| Parishes | 54 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 834,634 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 28,254 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 3.4% |
| Diocesan priest | 37 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 10 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 601 |
| Permanent deacons | 3 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 17 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 66 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | St. Joseph |
| address | 27 Convent Street Greenhill Swansea W. Glam. SA1 2BX Wales Great Britain |
| Website | www.menevia.org |
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The Catholic diocese of Menevia located in Great Britain ( Latin Dioecesis Menevensis , English Diocese of Menevia , Welsh Esgobaeth Mynyw ) was founded in 1895 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Wales from areas of the dioceses of Newport and Menevia and Shrewsbury and on May 12, 1898 it became an independent diocese with the Name Menevia raised. Its name is in the tradition of the diocese of Saint David’s, which perished during the Reformation : “Menevia” is the Latinized form of “Mynyw”, the original Welsh name of St Davids .
St. Joseph's Cathedral and the episcopal see of today's Diocese of Menevia are in the Welsh city of Swansea .
The Diocese of Menevia is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Cardiff as a suffragan diocese . On February 12, 1987, the diocese of Wrexham was established from parts of the diocese territory .
Bishops
- Francis Edward Joseph Mostyn (1895–1921) (then Archbishop of Cardiff)
- Francis J. Vaughan (1926-1935)
- Michael Joseph McGrath (1935–1940) (then Archbishop of Cardiff)
- Daniel Joseph Hannon (1941–1946)
- John Edward Petit (1947–1972)
- Langton Douglas Fox (1972-1981)
- John Aloysius Ward OFMCap (1981–1983) (then Archbishop of Cardiff)
- James Hannigan (1983–1987) (then Bishop of Wrexham)
- Daniel Joseph Mullins (1987-2001)
- John Mark Jabalé OSB (2001-2008)
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Thomas Matthew Burns SM (2008-2019)
- Sedis vacancy since July 11, 2019
literature
- GB German: A history of the diocese of Menevia 1898-1987 . Liverpool University, Liverpool 1991.
Web links
- Homepage of the Diocese of Menevia (English)
- Entry for the Diocese of Menevia on catholic-hierarchy.org
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Richard Sharpe: Which text is Rhygyfarch's Life of St David? In: J. Wyn Evans, Jonathan M. Wooding (eds.): St David of Wales. Cult, Church and Nation (= Studies in Celtic History , Vol. 24). Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge 2007, ISBN 978-1-84383-322-2 , pp. 90-106, here p. 99.
