St Alban Catholic Church

Pontypool
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St Alban Church
George Street, Pontypool, Torfaen, NP4 6HL
The Sacred Heart And St Felix Church
Ellick Street, Blaenavon, Torfaen, NP4 9RA

People

Rev David Hayman
Parish Priest
Position Vacant
Priest
Deacon Patrick Maloney
Deacon
Position Vacant
Parish Sister
Position Vacant
Parish Brother

Contact

Correspondence AddressThe Priest`s House
Conway Road
Pontypool
Torfaen
NP4 6HL
Phone 01495 762280
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External Link to St Alban Catholic Church`s Website: pontypoolparish.co.ukpontypoolparish.co.uk

Nearest Catholic Schools

Padre Pio Primary School (0 miles)

St Mary`s & St Patrick`s School, 208 Conway Road, Pontypool, South Wales, NP4 6HL, UK

Nearest Catholic Parishes/Churches

Our Lady of the Angels (0.2 miles)

St David`s Parish Church, St David`s Presbytery, Avondale Road, PONTNEWYDD, NP4 1TT, UK

St David (3.3 miles)

St David Church, Avondale Road, Pontnewydd, Cwmbran, NP44 1TT, UK

St Mary`s (4 miles)

(i) (?) St Mary Church (1877), Hill Street, Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, NP13 1AN, UK

St Joseph`s (4 miles)

St Joseph Church, 21 Old Road, Bromyard, Herefordshire, NP13 1AN, UK

Our Lady of the Angels (4.1 miles)

Our Lady Of The Angels Church, Wesley Street, Cwmbran, Torfaen, NP44 3LT, UK

Nearest Schools and Churches are calculated `as the crow flies` and may not be the closest or easiest when travelling.

About St Alban Catholic Church

Parish of St Alban in Pontypool, Torfaen (Archdiocese of Cardiff)

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What is a Catholic Bishops' Conference?

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).

What is an Archdiocese?

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).

What is a Diocese?

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).

What is the difference between a Diocese and an Archdiocese?

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.

What is a Deanery?

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

What is a Parish?

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




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