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 - )

External links

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth website
• Plymouth Cathedral
• Grail Centre website
• Giga-Catholic Information