Diocese of Salford Dioecesis Salfordensis | |
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Location | |
Country | England |
Territory | Most of Greater Manchester and neighbouring parts of Lancashire. |
Ecclesiastical province | Liverpool |
Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Liverpool |
Statistics | |
Area | 1,600 km2 (620 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2017) 2,800,000 294,000 (10.5%) |
Parishes | 145 |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 29 September 1850 |
Cathedral | Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist |
Secular priests | 251 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | John Arnold |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Malcolm McMahon |
Vicar General |
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Episcopal Vicars |
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Judicial Vicar | Christopher Dawson |
Bishops emeritus | Terence Brain |
Map | |
The Diocese of Salford within the Province of Liverpool | |
Website | |
dioceseofsalford.org.uk |
The Diocese of Salford ( Latin: Dioecesis Salfordensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church centred on the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England.
The diocese was founded in 1852 as one of the first post- Reformation Catholic dioceses in Great Britain. Since 1911 it has formed part of the Province of Liverpool. Its current boundaries encompass Manchester and a large part of North West England, between the River Mersey and the River Ribble, as well as some parishes north of the Ribble and Todmorden in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. Stonyhurst College is also within the diocese. In 2005, the diocese included 207 churches and chapels.
The first post-Reformation Catholic chapel in Blackburn was opened in 1773, and that in Manchester in 1774 (in Rook Street, dedicated to St Chad). In 1843 James Sharples, rector of St. Alban's, Blackburn, was consecrated Titular Bishop of Samaria and appointed coadjutor to Bishop Brown, the first Vicar Apostolic of the Lancashire District. He built at Salford St. John's Church, which was opened in 1848 and which subsequently became the cathedral for the diocese.
Dr. Sharples died on 16 August 1850 and the first Bishop of Salford in the restored hierarchy was William Turner (1790–1872). He was succeeded in 1872 by Herbert Vaughan (1832–1903). On his translation to Westminster in 1892, John Bilsborrow (1836–1903) was consecrated as the third bishop. Louis Charles Casartelli, the fourth bishop, was born in 1852, and ordained priest in 1876. He was closely associated with Cardinal Vaughan in the foundation of St. Bede's College, Manchester, in 1876, and was rector of it when he was nominated bishop in 1903. Bishop Casartelli was also a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, and known as a writer on Oriental subjects. [1]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). " Salford". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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