Cardiff Archdiocese
| Cardiff Archdiocese | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Diocesan bishop | George Stack |
| Vicar General | Robert Reardon |
| founding | 1840 |
| surface | 3,064 km² |
| Parishes | 58 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2016 ) |
| Residents | 1,524,000 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2016 ) |
| Catholics | 146,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
| proportion of | 9.6% |
| Diocesan priest | 46 (31.12.2014 / AP2016 ) |
| Religious priest | 42 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,659 |
| Permanent deacons | 18 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
| Friars | 44 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
| Religious sisters | 105 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2016 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | Cathedral Church of St. David |
| address | Archbishop's House 41-43 Cathedral Road Cardiff South Glamorgan CF11 9HD, Wales Great Britain |
| Website | www.rcadc.org |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Menevia Diocese of Wrexham |
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The in Britain situated Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff ( lat. : Archidioecesis Cardiffensis , English Archdiocese of Cardiff , Welsh Archesgobaeth Caerdydd ) includes the south-east of Wales and Herefordshire in England .
history
It has its origins in the Apostolic Vicariate Wales District , which emerged in 1840 from the Apostolic Vicariate Western District , which on September 29, 1850 with the Apostolic Vicariats Central District and Lancashire District gave up areas to establish the diocese of Shrewsbury .
When the Catholic hierarchy in England was restored to the diocese of Newport and Menevia in 1850 , a Vicariate Apostolic Wales was again separated from it in 1895 and the name of the diocese was changed to Newport . The diocese itself was under the Archdiocese of Westminster as a suffragan.
Raised an Archdiocese and Metropolitan on February 7, 1916 , it moved its seat to Cardiff and changed its name accordingly. His suffragans are still today the diocese of Menevia and the diocese of Wrexham .
Bishops
- Thomas Joseph Brown OSB (1840-1880)
- John Cuthbert Hedley OSB (1881-1915)
- James Romanus Bilsborrow OSB (1916-1920)
- Francis Edward Joseph Mostyn (1921-1939)
- Michael Joseph McGrath (1940–1961)
- John Aloysius Murphy (1961-1983)
- John Aloysius Ward OFMCap (1983-2001)
- Peter David Smith (2001-2010) (afterwards Archbishop of Southwark )
- George Stack (since 2011)
Auxiliary bishops
- 1873–1881 John Cuthbert Hedley, Titular Bishop of Caesaropolis
- 1970–1987 Daniel Joseph Mullins , Titular Bishop of Sidnacestre
See also
Web links
- Map of the dioceses of England and Welsh ( Memento of September 29, 2007 on the Internet Archive )
- Entry for the Archdiocese of Cardiff on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved June 20, 2011.
