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Diocese Of Shrewsbury
The Diocese of Shrewsbury () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the Province of Birmingham which encompasses the pre-1974 counties of Shropshire and Cheshire in the North West and West Midlands of England. The diocese includes rural areas of Shropshire as well as Manchester south of the River Mersey and other urban areas such as Birkenhead, Stockport and Ellesmere Port. The current bishop, Mark Davies, succeeded on 1 October 2010.Bishop Mark Davies ''Catholic Hierarchy''. Retrieved on 12 March 2010. Geographical location The comprises the counties of |
Province Of Birmingham
The Catholic dioceses in Great Britain are organised by two separate hierarchies: the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and the Catholic Church in Scotland. Within Great Britain, the Catholic Church in England and Wales has five provinces, subdivided into 21 dioceses, and the Catholic Church in Scotland has two provinces, subdivided into 8 dioceses. The Catholic dioceses in Northern Ireland are organised together with those in the Republic of Ireland, as the Catholic Church in Ireland was not divided when civil authority in Ireland was partitioned in 1921. A diocese, also sometimes known popularly as a bishopric, is an administrative unit under the supervision of a bishop. The Diocese of Westminster is considered the mother church of English and Welsh Catholics, and although not formally a primate, the Archbishop of Westminster is usually elected President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, providing a degree of a formal direction for the other English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north, Derbyshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Cheshire to the south, and Merseyside to the west. Its largest settlement is the city of Manchester. The county has an area of and is highly urbanised, with a population of 2.9 million. The majority of the county's settlements are part of the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, which extends into Cheshire and Merseyside and is the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, second most populous urban area in the UK. The city of Manchester is the largest settlement. Other large settlements are Altrincham, Bolton, Rochdale, Sale, Greater Manchester, Sale, Salford, Stockport and Wigan. Greater Manchester contains ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, City of Salford, Salford, Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Bolton, Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Bury, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Rochdale, Metropol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Aloysius Murphy
John Aloysius Murphy (21 December 1905 – 18 November 1995) was a Roman Catholic Church prelate who served firstly as the Bishop of Shrewsbury from 1949 to 1961, then as the Archbishop of Cardiff from 1961 to 1983. He was born in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula on 21 December 1905, and ordained a priest for the Diocese of Shrewsbury on 21 March 1931. He was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Shrewsbury and Titular Bishop of ''Appia'' on 7 February 1948. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 25 February 1948, the principal consecrator was Cardinal William Godfrey, Archbishop of Westminster, and the principal co-consecrators were John Edward Petit, Bishop of Menevia and Henry Vincent Marshall, Bishop of Salford. On the death of Ambrose James Moriarty on 3 June 1949, Murphy automatically succeeded as Bishop of Shrewsbury. Twelve years later, he was appointed Archbishop of Cardiff The Archbishop of Cardiff-Menevia is the ordinary (Catholic Church), ordinary of the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ambrose Moriarty
Ambrose James Moriarty (9 August 1870 – 3 June 1949) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Shrewsbury from 1934 to 1949. Samuel Webster Allen, his predecessor as fourth bishop, was his uncle. Born at 38 Mottram Street, Stockport, Cheshire on 9 August 1870, he was educated at Cotton College, Oscott, and the English College, Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood on 10 March 1894 and same year came to Shrewsbury to assist his uncle, then a canon at the cathedral there, serving as curate until 1897. He subsequently served the cathedral as priest-in-charge from 1897 to 1932, also as Canon Theologian from 1910, Vicar General from 1925 and Provost to the cathedral chapter from 1927. In Shrewsbury public life he was a member of the Shrewsbury Schools Board from 1898, and later Vice-Chairman of the Shrewsbury Education Committee which superseded the board in 1902. He was until his death member of the Shrewsbury Free Library Committee and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hugh Singleton
Hugh Singleton (30 July 1851 – 17 December 1934) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Shrewsbury from 1908 to 1934. Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, on 30 July 1851, he was ordained to the priesthood on 25 July 1880. He was appointed the Bishop of Shrewsbury by the Holy See on 1 August 1908. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 21 September 1908, the principal consecrator was Cardinal Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and the principal co-consecrators were Francis Mostyn, Bishop of Menevia (later Archbishop of Cardiff The Archbishop of Cardiff-Menevia is the ordinary (Catholic Church), ordinary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia. The position came about after the merger of the Archdiocese of Cardiff and the Diocese of Menevia in 2024, afte ...) and Richard Collins, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle. He died in office at his Bishop's House in Birkenhead on 17 December 1934, aged 83, and was bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Samuel Allen (bishop)
Samuel Webster Allen (23 March 1844 – 13 May 1908) was an English bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Bishop of Shrewsbury from 1897 to 1908. Born at 78 Lord Street, Stockport, Cheshire on 23 March 1844, Allen was educated at St Mary's College, Oscott,His sketch in Mate's ''Shropshire, Part II: Historical, Descriptive, Biographical'' wrongly states it as "St Mary's College, Oxon" (i.e. Oxford, as in the university). then on scholarship entered the English College, Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood on 4 December 1870. He served as reporting stenographer at the Vatican Councils in 1869-1870. He returned to England, where he was Secretary to the Provincial Council of the Archdiocese of Westminster in 1873. In October 1879 he came to Shrewsbury, Shropshire, as secretary to James Brown, then Bishop of Shrewsbury, and was appointed Canon at the Catholic Cathedral there in 1883. He was also active in town life as Vice-Chairman of the Shrewsbury School Board (es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Carroll (Bishop Of Shrewsbury)
John Carroll (16 March 1838 – 14 January 1897) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Shrewsbury from 1895 to 1897. Born in Castleblaney, County Monaghan on 16 March 1838, his family moved to Liverpool in England. He was educated in the Catholic Middle School, and studied for the priesthood at Ushaw and Bruges The Tablet, 23 January 1897 he was to the priesthood on 22 December 1861. He was appointed |
Edmund Knight
Edmund Knight (27 August 1827 – 9 June 1905) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Shrewsbury from 1882 to 1895. Born in Sheffield on 27 August 1827, he was ordained to the priesthood on 19 December 1857. He was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Diocese of Shrewsbury and Titular Bishop of ''Corycus'' on 30 May 1879. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 27 July 1879, the principal consecrator was Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, and the principal co-consecrators were Herbert Vaughan, Bishop of Salford, and Edward Gilpin Bagshawe, Bishop of Nottingham. Nearly three years later, he was appointed the Bishop of Shrewsbury on 25 April 1882. He resigned as Bishop of Shrewsbury on 28 May 1895, and appointed Titular Bishop of ''Flavias''. He died on 9 June 1905 at 25 Kensington Court, Kensington, London, aged 77, and was buried at Flaybrick Hill Cemetery, Birkenhead, Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a Cere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
James Brown (bishop Of Shrewsbury)
James Brown (11 January 1812 – 14 October 1881) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first Bishop of Shrewsbury from 1851 to 1881. Life He was born on 11 January 1812, at Wolverhampton. There, in the old chapel of SS. Peter and Paul in North Street, he often, when a child, served the mass of Bishop John Milner. That prelate, taking a great liking to the boy, and observing in his little acolyte the signs of a vocation to the ecclesiastical state, sent him, in 1820, to Sedgeley Park Academy. There he remained until June 1826, and in the following August was placed by Bishop Milner, as a clerical student, at St. Mary's College, Old Oscott, now known as Maryvale. He completed his studies as an Oscotian with marked success, being chiefly distinguished by his proficiency in classics. On 18 February 1837, he was ordained priest by Bishop Walsh. For several years he remained at Old and at New Oscott as professor and prefect of studies until, in Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mark Davies, Bishop Of Shrewsbury
Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1928 * Finnish markka (), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Polish mark (), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Shropshire & Wrekin Catholic Region
Shropshire and Wrekin Catholic Region/Shropshire Pastoral Region is a deanery located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury (Bishop Mark Davies). It is sub-divided into five pastoral areas, which in turn contain 19 parishes. Shropshire Pastoral Region Prior to October 2007, two deaneries - Shrewsbury & West Shropshire and Telford & East Shropshire - existed. In line with diocesan restructuring by Bishop Brian Noble, these were merged to form the Shropshire Pastoral Area. The comprises the whole of |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Wrexham
The Diocese of Wrexham () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Wales. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia. History The diocese was erected on 12 February 1987 from the Diocese of Menevia. Before 1916 this territory was part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury. The current bishop is The Right Reverend Peter Brignall, the 3rd Bishop of Wrexham. On 27 June 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed the then Monsignor Brignall, who was at that time the Diocese of Wrexham's Vicar General, to succeed the retiring bishop, Edwin Regan. Bishop Peter's episcopal ordination took place on 12 September 2012 in Wrexham Cathedral. Timeline * 29 September 1850: ''Universalis Ecclesiae'': The Roman Catholic Church in Wales is split between the Diocese of Shrewsbury in the north and the Diocese of Newport and Menevia in the south. * 4 September 1860: Belmont Abbey, Herefordsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
