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Archdiocese of Southwark

Bishops' Conference: Bishops` Conference of England and Wales (Cymru)

Address

Archdiocese of Southwark, Archbishop`s House, Southwark, London, SE1 6HX

People

Position Vacant
Former Archbishop
Most Rev John Wilson
Archbishop
Rt Rev Paul Hendricks
Auxiliary Bishop
Rt Rev Patrick Lynch
Auxiliary Bishop
Mgr Matthew Dickens
Vicar General
Fr Paul Mason
Episcopal Vicar (for Kent)
Ms Yvonne Ypale
Education Officer
Lauren Izatt
HR Manager
Paul Jackson
Finance Director
Mary Jane Crowley
Head of Safeguarding
Mark James
Data Protection Lead
Dr Anne Bamford
Director, Diocesan Education Commission
Fr Stephen Langridge
Vocations Director
Rev Canon Martin Lee
Diocesan Finance Secretary
Fr Philip Glandfield
Diocesan Communications Officer
Most Rev Michael Bowen
Archbishop Emeritus
Most Rev Kevin McDonald
Archbishop Emeritus
Rt Rev Howard Tripp
Retired Auxiliary Bishop
Fr John Hine
Retired Auxiliary Bishop

Contact

Correspondence AddressArchdiocese of Southwark
Archbishop`s House
150 St George`s Road
Southwark
London
SE1 6HX
Phone 020 7928 5592
Click here to email Archdiocese of Southwark
External Link to Archdiocese of Southwark`s Website: www.rcsouthwark.co.ukwww.rcsouthwark.co.uk

Nearest Catholic Schools

St George`s Cathedral Catholic Primary (0.1 miles)

St George`s Cathedral Catholic Primary School, 33 Westminster Bridge Road, Southwark, London, SE1 7JB, UK

Nearest Catholic Parishes/Churches

St Patrick (0.4 miles)

St Patrick Church, St Patrick`s Friary, 26 Cornwall Road, Waterloo, London, SE1 8TW, UK

Most Precious Blood (0.8 miles)

Precious Blood Church, 22 Redcross Way, Borough, London, SE1 1TE, UK

St Anne (0.9 miles)

St Anne Church, 363 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London, SE11 5QY, UK

English Martyrs (0.9 miles)

English Martyrs Church, 142 Rodney Road, Walworth, London, SE17 1RA, UK

St Wilfrid (1 miles)

St Wilfrid Church, 97 Lorrimore Road, Kennington Park, London, SE17 3LZ, UK

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

Catholic Groups/Organisations/Religious Orders

About Archdiocese of Southwark

Archdiocese of Southwark

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Useful Definitions of the Structures in the Catholic Church

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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