Diocese of Northampton

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Diocese of Northampton
Basic data
Country United Kingdom
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Westminster
Diocesan bishop David James Oakley
Emeritus diocesan bishop Peter John Haworth Doyle
founding July 3, 1840
surface 3,419 km²
Parishes 71 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 2,133,542 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 176,626 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 8.3%
Diocesan priest 87 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 29 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,523
Permanent deacons 41 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 30 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 115 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language English
cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady and St. Thomas
Website www.northamptondiocese.org
Ecclesiastical province
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Northampton ( lat. : Dioecesis Northantoniensis ) is in United Kingdom situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Northampton .

history

Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Thomas in Northampton

The diocese of Northampton was founded in 1840 by Pope Gregory XVI. Established from assignments of territory by the Vicariate Apostolic Midland District as Vicariate Apostolic Eastern District . On September 29, 1850, the Vicariate Apostolic Eastern District by Pope Pius IX. with the Apostolic Constitution Universalis Ecclesiae - restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England - raised to the diocese and renamed the diocese of Northampton . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Westminster as a suffragan . The Diocese of Northampton gave on March 13, 1976 parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of East Anglia .

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Eastern District

Bishops of Northampton

See also

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