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Anglican Diocese of Birmingham

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Archdeaconries
  
Aston, Birmingham

Churches
  
195

Church
  
195

Parishes
  
162

Bishop
  
David Urquhart

Ecclesiastical province
  
Province of Canterbury

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Suffragan
  
Anne Hollinghurst, Bishop of Aston

Archdeacons
  
Hayward Osborne, Archdeacon of BirminghamSimon Heathfield, Archdeacon of Aston

Cathedral
  
St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham

The Diocese of Birmingham is a diocese in the Church of England's Province of Canterbury, covering the north west of the traditional county of Warwickshire (now West Midlands and part of Staffordshire, Warwickshire and north Worcestershire) in England.

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Cathedral

The see is in the centre of the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, where the seat of the diocese is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Philip.

The 18th-century parish church of Saint Philip in Birmingham was elevated to cathedral status in 1905 when the see was founded, on 13 January 1905. Previously the area had been part of the Diocese of Worcester.

Bishops

Besides the diocesan Bishop of Birmingham, David Urquhart and the Bishop suffragan of Aston (Anne Hollinghurst; which see was created in 1954), there are five retired bishops resident in (or near) the diocese who are licensed to serve as honorary assistant bishops:

  • 1996–present: Michael Whinney is a retired former Canon Residentiary of Birmingham Cathedral (and assistant bishop), prior to which he was the diocesan Bishop of Southwell. He lives in Moseley and served as Acting Bishop of Birmingham (2005–2006).
  • 2002–present: Maurice Sinclair is a retired former Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone living in Selly Park.
  • 2003–present: Mark Santer is a retired former diocesan Bishop of Birmingham living in Moseley.
  • 2005–present: Iraj Mottahedeh is a retired former diocesan Bishop of Iran who lives in Church Aston in the neighbouring Lichfield diocese.

    • Since 1994, alternative episcopal oversight (for parishes in the diocese who reject the ministry of priests who are women) is provided by the provincial episcopal visitor, Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet since 2013, who is licensed as an honorary assistant bishop of the diocese in order to facilitate his work there.

    References

    Anglican Diocese of Birmingham Wikipedia
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