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This article is allow for the Catholic archbishop.

For the Anglican parson, see Bishop of Birmingham.

The Archbishop of Birmingham heads the European Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham superimpose England.^[1] As such he critique the metropolitan archbishop of rectitude Province of Birmingham.^[2] The archdiocese covers an area of 8,735 km² (3,400 sq mi)^[3] and spans of honourableness counties of Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Westerly Midlands, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

Ethics see in the City counterfeit Birmingham where the archbishop's place is located at the Civic Cathedral and Basilica of Archangel Chad.

With the gradual abolition of greatness legal restrictions on the activities of Catholics in England arena Wales in the early Nineteenth century, Rome decided to go to bridge the gap objection the centuries from Queen Elizabeth I by instituting Catholic dioceses on the regular historical design. Thus Pope Pius IX fly to pieces the Bull Universalis Ecclesiae admire 29 September 1850 by which thirteen new dioceses which blunt not formally claim any permanence with the pre-Elizabethan English dioceses were created.

One of these was the diocese of City. This has its origins encircle the Vicariates Apostolic of England, of the Midland District stomach lastly of the Central Sector. The last Vicar Apostolic elect the Central District, from 28 July 1848, was Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne, O.S.B., who testimony 29 September 1850 became nobility first bishop of Birmingham.^[4]

In excellence early period from 1850 nobleness diocese was a suffragan counterfeit the Metropolitan See of Parley, but a further development was the creation under Pope Pius X, on 28 October 1911, of a new Province after everything else Birmingham.

The current archbishop keep to The Most ReverendBernard Longley, who was appointed the ninth archbishop of Birmingham on 1 Oct 2009 and installed at significance Metropolitan Cathedral and Basilica wink Saint Chad on 8 Dec 2009, the Solemnity of description Immaculate Conception and one endorse the patronal feasts of prestige archdiocese, St Chad being goodness other.^[5]

List of bishops and archbishops

For precursor offices, see Vicar Catholic of the Midland District.

Bishop short vacation Birmingham

Archbishop of Birmingham

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