Bishop`s House, Marriott Street, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN2 6AW
Rt Rev David Oakley - Bishop
Ms Collette Curtis - Director of Schools
Ms Anne-Marie McIntosh - Adviser for Primary RE
- Episcopal Vicar for Education & Formation
- Diocesan Communications Officer
Rt Rev Leo McCartie - Retired Bishop
Correspondence Address | Bishop`s House Marriott Street Northampton Northamptonshire NN2 6AW |
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Phone | 01604 715635 |
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North Northants Pastoral Area: St Luke,
Northampton Pastoral Area: St Thomas of Canterbury,
Bedfordshire Pastoral Area: St Josephine Bakhitta,
Milton Keynes Pastoral Area: St Paul,
Luton Pastoral Area: St Alban,
Aylesbury Pastoral Area: St John Fisher,
South Bucks Pastoral Area: St Monica,
Slough Pastoral Area: St Peter,
Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate & St Thomas of Canterbury, Northampton
Cathedral - Area Hub, Northampton
The Sacred Heart, Northampton
Ss Francis and Therese, Northampton
SS Stanislaus and Lawrence (Polish Church), Northampton
St Aidan, Northampton
St Gregory the Great, Northampton
St Patrick, Northampton
Our Lady Help of Christians and St Lawrence, Olney
Most Holy Name of Jesus, Oundle
St Teresa of the Child Jesus, Princes Risborough
St Peter, Rushden
St Francis of Assisi, Shefford
Polish Church of Divine Mercy, Slough
The Holy Family, Slough
Church of the Holy Redeemer, Slough
St Anthony, Slough
Our Lady Immaculate and St Ethelbert, Slough
St Paul The Apostle, Thrapston
St Thomas More, Northampton
Priory of Our Lady of Peace, Turvey
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Wellingborough
St Anne, Wendover
St Alban`s RC Parish, Winslow
St Mary, Milton Keynes
St John Henry Newman, High Wycombe
St Joseph, Corby
St Joseph, Corby
Eton College, Eton College
St John Henry Newman, High Wycombe
St John Henry Newman,
St Barnabas - Area Cluster, Milton Keynes
St Joseph (Polish Mission Church), Corby
Monastery of Christ Our Saviour, Turvey
The Sacred Heart and Our Lady, Aston-le-Walls
St Joseph, St Clare and Guardian Angels, Aylesbury
Our Lady of Lourdes, Aylesbury
St Teresa of the Child Jesus and SS John Fisher and Thomas More, Beaconsfield
Christ the King, Bedford
Holy Cross, Bedford
Sacred Heart of Jesus and St Cuthbert (Polish Church), Bedford
SS Philip and James, Bedford
The Holy Child and St Joseph, Bedford
St Frances Cabrini (Italian Church), Bedford
St Peter, Biggleswade
St Martin, Brackley
St Bernardine of Siena, Buckingham
Our Lady of Peace and St Andrews, Burnham
St Columba, Chesham
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois
Our Lady of Walsingham, Corby
St Brendan, Corby
St John Ogilvie, Corby
St Augustine, Datchet
Our Lady Of Charity & St Augustine, Daventry
Our Lady of Czestochowa (Polish Church), Dunstable
St Mary, Dunstable
Sacred Heart, Flitwick
St Joseph, Gerrards Cross
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Great Billing
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Great Missenden
The Good Shepherd, Haddenham
St Augustine Apostle of England, High Wycombe
Bridgettine Convent, Iver Heath
St Edward, Kettering
Laxton Hall (Polish Residental Home), Laxton
The Sacred Heart, Leighton Buzzard
The Holy Family & St John the Apostle, Luton
The Holy Ghost, Luton
Our Lady Help of Christians, Luton
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Luton
St Joseph The Worker, Luton
St Margaret of Scotland, Luton
St Martin de Porres, Luton
St Peter, Marlow
Christ the King, Milton Keynes
Our Lady of Lourdes, Milton Keynes
St Augustine, Milton Keynes
St Edward the Confessor, Milton Keynes
St Francis de Sales, Wolverton
St Mary Magdalene, Milton Keynes
St Thomas Aquinas, Milton Keynes
St Bede, Milton Keynes
Diocesan Schools Commission - Education/Schools
St Anne`s Church - Church Community
Evangelisation
Adult Formation - First Holy Communion
Youth Ministry
Education
Social Action
Liturgy
Women in Ministry
Marriage and Family Life
News from Bishop David
The Diocese of Northampton covers Bedfordshire, the old county of Buckinghamshire including the Slough area, and Northamptonshire.
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An episcopal conference, sometimes called a conference of bishops, is an official assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in a given territory. ... Individual bishops do not relinquish their immediate authority for the governance of their respective dioceses to the conference (Wikipedia).
Dioceses ruled by an archbishop are commonly referred to as archdioceses; most are metropolitan sees, being placed at the head of an ecclesiastical province. A few are suffragans of a metropolitan see or are directly subject to the Holy See.
The term 'archdiocese' is not found in Canon Law, with the terms "diocese" and "episcopal see" being applicable to the area under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of any bishop.[8] If the title of archbishop is granted on personal grounds to a diocesan bishop, his diocese does not thereby become an archdiocese (Wikipedia).
The group of churches that a bishop supervises is known as a diocese. Typically, a diocese is divided into parishes that are each overseen by a priest.
The original dioceses, in ancient Rome, were political rather than religious. Rome was divided into dioceses, each of which was made up of many provinces. After Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th century, the term gradually came to refer to religious districts. The Catholic Church has almost 3,000 dioceses. The Greek root of diocese is dioikesis, "government, administration, or province." (Vocabulary.com).
As of April 2020, in the Catholic Church there are 2,898 regular dioceses: 1 papal see, 649 archdioceses (including 9 patriarchates, 4 major archdioceses, 560 metropolitan archdioceses, 76 single archdioceses) (Wikipedia).
Each diocese is within a Province - a group of Dioceses - the Archdiocese is the main Diocese within that Diocese. The bishop of that Archdiocese is therefore automatically an Archbishop. If a bishop has been made an Archbishop personally is referred to as an Archbishop but it does not make their Diocese an Archdiocese.
A subdivision of a diocese, consisting of a number parishes, over which presides a dean appointed by a bishop. The duty of the dean is to watch over the clergy of the deanery, to see that they fulfill the orders of the bishop, and observe the liturgical and canon laws. He summons the conference of the deanery and presides at it. Periodically he makes a report to the bishop on conditions in the deanery.www.catholicculture.org
In the Roman Catholic Church, a parish (Latin: parochia) is a stable community of the faithful within a particular church, whose pastoral care has been entrusted to a parish priest (Latin: parochus), under the authority of the diocesan bishop. It is the lowest ecclesiastical subdivision in the Catholic episcopal polity, and the primary constituent unit of a diocese. In the 1983 Code of Canon Law, parishes are constituted under cc. 515–552, entitled "Parishes, Pastors, and Parochial Vicars." Wikipedia