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The Diocese of Westminster (Latin: Dioecesis Vestmonasteriensis) is a Latin archdiocese [1] of the Catholic Church in England. The diocese consists of most of London north of the River Thames and west of the River Lea, the borough of Spelthorne (in Surrey), and the county of Hertfordshire, which lies immediately to London's north.
The Diocese of Westminster is considered the mother church of English and Welsh Catholics, [1] and although not formally a primate, the Archbishop of Westminster is usually elected President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, providing a degree of a formal direction for the other English bishops and archbishops.
Note that the see styles itself a diocese rather than an archdiocese even though it is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical Province of Westminster. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster .
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.
It is one of only two parishes in the Diocese of Westminster to be dedicated to Saint Monica, the other being that of St Monica's Priory, Hoxton. Originally founded as a mission church, it then became established as a parish, with a presbytery built alongside in 1931. [1] As of 2021, the church has two priests, a parish sister and a lay ...
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Diocese of Westminster may refer to: Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster , since 1850, with seat at Westminster Cathedral Diocese of Westminster (Church of England) , extant from 1540 to 1550, with seat at what is now Westminster Abbey
Prior of the Westminster Section of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre (KCHS) Trustee of the Friends of the Holy Land and Pilgrimage People. [ 2 ] He was consecrated bishop at Westminster Cathedral on 18 June 2024 by Cardinal Vincent Nichols with Archbishops Malcolm McMahon and George Stack as co-consecrators.