Diocese of Lancaster
Lancastren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Lancaster, United Kingdom
The Diocese of Lancaster is a Latin rite diocese covering Cumbria and northwestern Lancashire in England, erected in 1924 from territory of the Archdiocese of Liverpool and the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Liverpool. Its seat is St Peter's Cathedral in Lancaster.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 November 1924
- Latin
- Lancastren(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Lourdes and St Cuthbert
- Annuario code
- 001001944
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 101,700
- Population
- 1,232,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 8.3%
- Priests
- 95
- Catholics per priest
- 1,071
- Extent
- 2,900 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 35
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Paul Swarbrick
- Born
- 2 July 1958
- Birthplace
- Preston
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St Peter's Cathedral, Lancaster stands in Lancaster, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Liverpool
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Liverpool.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LiverpoolLiverpool
- Diocese of HallamHallam
- Diocese of Hexham and NewcastleHexham and Newcastle
- Diocese of LeedsLeeds
- Diocese of MiddlesbroughMiddlesbrough
- Diocese of SalfordSalford
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Lancaster Cathedral, in the Lancashire city of Lancaster, England, anchors the Diocese of Lancaster (Latin: Dioecesis Lancastrensis), a Roman Catholic diocese of the Latin Church.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.