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Archdiocese of Birmingham Archidioecesis Birminghamiensis
Coat of arms
Location
Country	England
Territory	Warwickshire Oxfordshire Staffordshire West Midlands Worcestershire
Ecclesiastical province	Birmingham
Deaneries	11
Subdivisions	3 Pastoral Areas
Statistics
Area	8,735 km2 (3,373 sq mi)
Population Total Catholics	(as of 2015) 4,993,000 443,300 (8.9%)
Parishes	224
Schools	250
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	29 September 1850 (As Diocese of Birmingham) 28 October 1911 (As Archdiocese of Birmingham)
Cathedral	Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Saint Chad, Birmingham
Patron Saints	Our Blessed Lady Conceived Without Sin (8 December), Saint Chad (1 March)
Secular priests	214 (+100 deacons)
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Archbishop	Bernard Longley
Auxiliary Bishops	David Evans[1] Timothy Menezes Richard Walker
Vicar General	Jonathan Veasey
Episcopal Vicars	Gary Buckby Una Coogan
Judicial Vicar	Joseph McLoughlin
Bishops emeritus	Philip Pargeter Leonard William Kenney
Map
The Archdiocese of Birmingham within the Province of Birmingham
Website
birminghamdiocese.org.uk

TheArchdiocese of Birmingham is one of the principalLatin Church diocese of theCatholic Church inEngland and Wales. The archdiocese covers an area of 3,373 square miles (8,740 km²), encompassingStaffordshire, theWest Midlands,Warwickshire,Worcestershire and much ofOxfordshire as well asCaversham inBerkshire. The metropolitan see is in theCity of Birmingham at theMetropolitan Cathedral Church of Saint Chad. Themetropolitan province includes thesuffragan dioceses ofClifton andShrewsbury.

The archbishop isBernard Longley, who was named the ninthArchbishop of Birmingham on 1 October 2009. He succeeds the Archbishop of Westminster, CardinalVincent Nichols (2000–09). Longley was installed as Archbishop of Birmingham at the Metropolitan Cathedral and Basilica of Saint Chad on 8 December 2009, the Solemnity of theImmaculate Conception and one of the patronal feasts of the archdiocese, St Chad being the other.

Erected as the Vicariate Apostolic of the Midlands District in 1688, the vicariate grew very slowly until the advent of the industrial revolution. In response to large growth the name was changed in 1840 to the Vicariate Apostolic of Central District and a new vicariate created out of the eastern district.

Finally, in September 1850, the vicariate was elevated to a full diocese, as the Diocese of Birmingham, along with theDiocese of Nottingham and theDiocese of Shrewsbury. The diocese was then suffragan to theArchdiocese of Westminster.

The Diocese of Birmingham was elevated to archdiocesan status on 28 October 1911.

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The Archbishop of Birmingham, Bernard Longley, has overall episcopal oversight of the diocese that is divided into three pastoral areas, each of which is headed by an auxiliary bishop and contains a number of deaneries:

• Central and Western Pastoral Area (Area Bishop: David Evans): Birmingham Cathedral & South; Birmingham East & North; Kidderminster & Worcester.
• Northern Pastoral Area (Area Bishop: Timothy Menezes): Dudley & Wolverhampton; Lichfield & Walsall; North Staffordshire; Stafford.
• Southern Pastoral Area (Area Bishop: Richard Walker): Banbury & Warwick; Coventry & Nuneaton; Oxford (North); Oxford (South).

• Bonaventure Giffard (1687–1703), appointedVicar Apostolic of the London District
• George Witham (1702–1716), appointedVicar Apostolic of the Northern District
• John Talbot Stonor (1716–1756)
• John Joseph Hornyold (1756–1778)
• Thomas Joseph Talbot (1778–1795)
• Charles Berington (1795–1798)
• Gregory Stapleton (1800–1802)
• John Milner (1803–1826)
• Thomas Walsh (1826–1840), becameVicar Apostolic of the Central District (see below)

• Thomas Walsh (1840–1848), see above; appointedVicar Apostolic of the London District
• William Bernard Ullathorne (1848–1850); see below

• William Bernard Ullathorne (1850–1888); see above
• Edward Ilsley (1888–1911); see below

• Edward Ilsley (1911–1921); see above
• John McIntyre (1921–1928)
• Thomas Leighton Williams (1929–1946)
• Joseph Masterson (1947–1953)
• Francis Joseph Grimshaw (1954–1965)
• George Patrick Dwyer (1965–1981)
• Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville (1982–1999)
• Vincent Gerard Nichols (2000–2009), appointedArchbishop of Westminster (Cardinal in 2014)
• Bernard Longley (2009–present)

• John Joseph Hornyold (1751–1756)
• Thomas Joseph Talbot (1766–1778)
• Charles Berington (1786–1795)
• Thomas Walsh (1825–1826)
• Nicholas Wiseman (1840–1847), appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of the London District, laterVicar Apostolic of the London District andArchbishop of Westminster (elevated toCardinal in 1850)

• John Patrick Barrett (1926–1929), appointed Bishop of Plymouth
• Terence John Brain (1991–1997), appointed Bishop of Salford
• Humphrey Penderell Bright (1944–1964)
• Robert John Byrne CO (2014–2019), appointed Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
• Joseph Francis Cleary (1964–1987)
• Anthony Joseph Emery (1967–1976), appointed Bishop of Portsmouth
• David Ernest Charles Evans (2020–)
• Michael Francis Glancey (1924–1925)
• Bernard William Griffin (1938–1943), appointed Archbishop of Westminster (Cardinal in 1946)
• Roger Francis Crispian Hollis (1987–1988), appointed Bishop of Portsmouth
• Edward Ilsley (1879–1888), appointed Bishop here
• Leonard William Kenney CP (2006–2021)
• Patrick Leo McCartie (1977–1990), appointed Bishop of Northampton
• David Christopher McGough (2005–2020)
• John McIntyre (1912–1917), appointed official of the Roman Curia and titular archbishop; later returned as Archbishop
• Timothy Menezes (2024-)
• Philip Pargeter (1989–2009)
• Stephen James Lawrence Wright (2020–2023) appointed Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
• Richard Walker (2024-)

• Francis Kerril Amherst, appointed Bishop of Northampton in 1858
• James Brown, appointed Bishop of Shrewsbury in 1851
• David John Cashman, appointed auxiliary bishop of Westminster in 1958
• Kieran Thomas Conry, appointed Bishop of Arundel and Brighton in 2001
• James Dey, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Great Britain, Military in 1935
• Edward Dicconson, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Northern District in 1740
• Kevin John Dunn, appointed Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle in 2004
• Joseph Gray, appointed auxiliary bishop of Liverpool in 1968
• Frederick William Keating, appointed Bishop of Northampton in 1908
• Edmund James Knight, appointed auxiliary bishop of Shrewsbury in 1879
• Kevin John Patrick McDonald, appointed Bishop of Northampton in 2001
• Patrick Joseph McKinney, appointed Bishop of Nottingham in 2015
• Francis George Mostyn, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Northern District in 1840
• David James Oakley, appointed Bishop of Northampton in 2020
• Richard Butler Roskell, appointed Bishop of Nottingham in 1853
• Marcus Nigel Stock, appointed Bishop of Leeds in 2014
• Francis Gerard Thomas, appointed Bishop of Northampton in 1982
• William Wareing, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Eastern District in 1840
• Henry Weedall, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Northern District in 1840; did not take effect

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• Catholic Hierarchy
• Ardiocese of Birmingham Directory 2020 (CPMM Media Group, Liverpool, 2019)

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