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The seat of the Archbishop of Westminster in 2024. The coat of arms of the incumbent Cardinal Vincent Nichols is placed above. Liturgy in the diocese is primarily based around the ordinary form of the Roman Rite , promulgated by Pope Paul VI , now in its third edition.
The archbishop of Westminster heads the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster, in England. [1] [2] The incumbent is the metropolitan of the Province of Westminster, chief metropolitan of England and Wales [3] and, as a matter of custom, is elected president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, and therefore de facto spokesman of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
The shrine is dedicated to the Blood of Jesus Christ and is the seat of the Archbishop of Westminster. The original site on which the cathedral stands in the City of Westminster was purchased by the Diocese of Westminster in 1885, and construction was completed in 1903. [ 2 ]
They obtained representation in the Westminster House of Lords after the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801. Of the Church of Ireland's ecclesiastics, four (one archbishop and three bishops) were to sit at any one time, with the members rotating at the end of every parliamentary session (which normally lasted about one year).
Vincent Gerard Nichols (born 8 November 1945) is a Roman Catholic British prelate who has served as Archbishop of Westminster since 2009. He was the former Archbishop of Birmingham from 2000 to 2009 and is the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.
split into Diocese of Westminster (seat at Westminster Abbey), 1540–50; seats at St Paul's and Westminster Abbey, 1550–56; seat at St Paul's, 1556–present Hertfordshire and Essex moved to Rochester, 1846; York – 625–present Lindisfarne added (bishop of larger diocese also called "Bishop of Northumbria"), 664; larger diocese split in ...
The late Queen’s most defining milestones took place at the Abbey, both in terms of her personal happiness and her public duty.
In 2000, when Murphy O'Connor became Archbishop of Westminster, the case became known to the general public. [25] Instead of reporting Hill to the police, Murphy-O'Connor allowed the crime to be covered up and transferred Hill to Gatwick Airport chapel, where the Cardinal believed he would not be able to molest children.