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Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia

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Country
  
England

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Bishop
  
Alan Hopes

Secular priests
  
96

Ecclesiastical province
  
Westminster

Area
  
12,570 km²

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Vincent Nichols

Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia

Territory
  
Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and the Unitary Authority of Peterborough

Deaneries
  
Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, King's Lynn, Norwich, Peterborough

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2011) 2,873,000 99,800 (3.5%)

Cathedral
  
St John the Baptist Cathedral, Norwich

The Diocese of East Anglia is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church covering the counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Peterborough in eastern England. The diocese makes up part of the Catholic Association Pilgrimage.

Contents

Statistics

There are 85,309 members of the church who belong to the 59 parishes in the diocese. The patrons of the diocese are Our Lady of Walsingham (24 September), St Felix (8 March) and St Edmund (20 November).

Boundaries

The diocese is divided into seven deaneries, which are in turn divided into 50 parishes.

  • Bury St Edmunds (St Edmund): Brandon; Bury St Edmunds; Clare; Diss; Haverhill; Newmarket; Stowmarket; Sudbury and Hadleigh; Thetford.
  • Cambridge (St Andrew): Buckden and St Neots; Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge & Our Lady of Lourdes, Sawston; St Laurence, Cambridge; St Philip Howard, Cambridge; Ely; Huntingdon; St Ives.
  • Great Yarmouth (St Peter): Beccles; Bungay; Gorleston; Lowestoft; Poringland; Southwold; Great Yarmouth.
  • Ipswich (St Edward): Aldeburgh; Felixstowe; St James, Ipswich; St Mark, Ipswich; St Mary, Ipswich; St Mary Magdalen, Ipswich; St Pancras, Ipswich; Woodbridge.
  • King's Lynn (St Wilfrid): Downham Market; Fakenham; Hunstanton; King's Lynn; Swaffham; Basilica of Our Lady of Walsingham; Walsingham Parish; Wisbech.
  • Norwich (St Felix): Costessey; Dereham; North Walsham; St John's Cathedral, Norwich; St George's, Norwich; Poringland; Sheringham and Cromer; Wymondham.
  • Peterborough (St Hugh): March; St Peter & All Souls, Peterborough; Sacred Heart & St Oswald, Peterborough; St Luke, Peterborough; St Anthony's, Peterborough (Italian Mission); Polish Mission, Peterborough; Whittlesey and Ramsey.

    • History

    On 13 March 1976, by the decree Quod Ecumenicum, Pope Paul VI formed the Diocese of East Anglia (from the counties of Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk) out of the Diocese of Northampton.

    On 2 June 1976, the new diocese received its first bishop, Alan Clark. Bishop Clark had previously been auxiliary bishop of Northampton and co-chairman of ARCIC (Anglican/Roman Catholic International Commission), with the cathedral being established at the former parish church of St John the Baptist, Norwich. As the first bishop of the new diocese, Bishop Clark had to set up all the necessary instruments and commissions for the diocese to operate successfully. The establishment of the Diocesan Pastoral Council in 1987 strengthened these.

    The diocese continued to grow with the development of the diocesan offices and diocesan tribunal attached to Bishop's House in Poringland near Norwich. Bishop Clark led a number of Lourdes pilgrimages.

    Ordinaries

  • Alan Charles Clark (appointed on 26 April 1976 – retired on 21 March 1995)
  • Peter David Smith (appointed on 21 March 1995 – translated to the Archdiocese of Cardiff on 26 October 2001)
  • Michael Charles Evans (appointed on 14 February 2003 – died in office on 11 July 2011)
  • Alan Hopes (appointed on 11 June 2013)

    • Pilgrimage

    The diocese makes up part of the Catholic Association Pilgrimage.

    References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia Wikipedia
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