Plymouth (purple), within the Province of Southwark
The
Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth is a Latin Rite Roman
Catholic diocese in England
.
The
episcopal see is Cathedral Church of St Mary and St
Boniface
, located in Plymouth
,
Devon. The diocese covers the counties of Cornwall
, Devon
and Dorset
, stretching
from Penzance
and the
Isles of
Scilly
in the west, to parts of Bournemouth
in the east. It is divided in five
deaneries: Cornwall, Plymouth, Torbay, Exeter and
North and East Devon, and Dorset. The Diocesan Bishop is the
Right Reverend Hugh
Christopher Budd.
The
diocese includes the Grail Centre in Pinner,
England
, a lay community of single Catholic women. The Centre promotes a wider
"Grail community" to include non-resident women and families, and
also publishes a translation of the
Psalms.
Erected as the Diocese of Plymouth in
1850 by
Pope Pius IX, from the Apostolic
Vicariate of Western District, the diocese
has remained jurisdictionally constant since.
The diocese is
currently a suffragan of the Archdiocese
of Southwark
.
Ordinaries
- George Errington † (27 Jun 1851 Appointed - 30 Mar 1855
Appointed, Coadjutor Archbishop of Westminster, England)
- William Vaughan † (10 Jul 1855 Appointed - 24 Oct 1902
Died)
- Charles Maurice Graham † (25 Oct 1902 Succeeded - 16 Mar 1911
Retired)
- John Joseph Keily † (21 Apr 1911 Appointed - 23 Sep 1928
Died)
- John Patrick Barrett † (7 Jun 1929 Appointed - 2 Nov 1946
Died)
- Francis Joseph Grimshaw † (2 Jun 1947 Appointed - 11 May 1954
Appointed, Archbishop of Birmingham, England)
- Cyril Edward Restieaux † (9 Apr 1955 Appointed - 19 Nov 1985
Retired)
- Hugh Christopher Budd (19
Nov 1985 Appointed - )
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