| Archbishop Of Westminster |
Article Index for Archbishop Of |
Website Links For Archbishop |
Information AboutArchbishop Of Westminster |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER | |
| christianity in london | |
| roman catholic church in england amp; wales | |
| roman catholic archbishops by diocese | |
| westminster | |
| archbishops of westminster | |
|
The Archbishop of Westminster heads the Catholic Archdiocese Of Westminster , England. The incumbent is Metropolitan of the Province of Westminster and has generally in recent times been elected President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference Of England And Wales . The Diocese of Westminster is considered the primary Roman Catholic diocese in England and Wales, although this status is not official, and the diocese is equal to the other Provinces in England and Wales. There is no connection between the Archdiocese of Westminster and Westminster Abbey , except for geographical proximity. Nor is there a formal connection with the former office of Bishop Of Westminster . With the gradual abolition of the legal restrictions on the activities of Catholics in England and Wales in the early 19th Century , Rome decided to proceed to bridge the gap of the centuries from Queen Elizabeth I by instituting Catholic dioceses on the regular historical pattern. Thus Pope Pius IX issued the Bull ''Universalis Ecclesiae'' of 29 September 1850 by which thirteen new dioceses which did not formally claim any continuity with the pre-Elizabethan English dioceses were created. One of these was the Archdiocese of Westminster, the sole Metropolitan See at that time. However, under Pope Pius X , on 28 October 1911 , two new Provinces of Liverpool and Birmingham were created, and Westminster retained as suffragan dioceses only Northampton, Nottingham, Portsmouth and Southwark. These increased when under Pope Benedict XV a Bull of 20 July 1917 fixed the seat of a new diocese corresponding to the County of Essex, detached now from Westminster, at Brentwood, making it a suffragan of Westminster. However, under Pope Paul VI , on 28 May 1965 , a new Province of Southwark was erected, with as its suffragans Portsmouth, detached from Westminster, Plymouth, detached from Birmingham, and a new diocese of Arundel and Brighton erected in the Counties of Sussex and Surrey with territory taken from the diocese of Southwark. Westminster retained as suffragan dioceses only Northampton, Nottingham and Brentwood. Subsequently these were joined by a new diocese of East Anglia, erected with territory from the Northampton diocese in the Counties of Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk by Pope Paul VI on 13 March 1976. The previous Catholic jurisdiction in the London area was a Vicariate headed by the Vicar Apostolic Of The London District . The archdiocese presently covers an area of 3,634 km² of the London Boroughs North of the River Thames and the boroughs of Waltham Forest and Newham in the West, together with the districts of Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames and the County Of Hertfordshire . The see is in the City Of Westminster , the Archbishop's ''cathedra'' or seat is located at the Metropolitan Cathedral Church Of The Most Precious Holy Blood, Saint Mary, Saint Joseph And Saint Peter . The Archbishop's residence is Archbishop's House, Ambrosden Avenue, London. The current archbishop is His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor , the 10th Metropolitan Archbishop of Westminster. List of the Archbishops of the Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster, England See also
|
|
|