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The Catholic Church in England and Wales has five provinces: Birmingham, Cardiff, Liverpool, Southwark and Westminster. There are 22 dioceses which are divided into parishes (for comparison, the Church of England and Church in Wales currently have a total of 50 dioceses).
A new edition of the Lectionary, the book which contains the readings which are proclaimed at Mass, will come into use in England and Wales on the First Sunday of Advent 2024. For information and resources on the new Lectionary, visit the dedicated section in our What’s On area .
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The Catholic Church in England included about 50,000 people in traditional ("recusant") Catholic families. They generally kept a low profile. Their priests usually came from St Edmund's College, a seminary founded in 1793 by English refugees from the French revolution.
Jan 1, 2024 · A new set of pastoral statistics regarding the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland has been released by the Catholic Record Society (CRS). They are freely available from the ...
This site is maintained by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. 39 Eccleston Square. London. SW1V 1BX. 020 7630 8220.
The Catholic Church in England and Wales is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See. Its origins date from the 6th century, when Pope Gregory I through the Roman monk and Benedictine missionary, Augustine, later Augustine of Canterbury, intensified the evangelization of the Kingdom of Kent linking it to the Holy See in 597 AD.
Learn about the 22 dioceses of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, their locations, boundaries and pastoral areas. Find out how each diocese is led by a bishop and forms part of the universal Church.
