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Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle

Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle
Dioecesis Hagulstadensis et Novacastrensis
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Location
Country England
Territory The counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham including the part of north of the River Tees.
Ecclesiastical province Liverpool
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Liverpool
Deaneries 18
Statistics
Area 8,438 km2 (3,258 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2013)
2,323,700
181,193 (7.8%)
Parishes 170
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Latin Rite
Established 29 September 1850
(As Hexham)
23 May 1861
(As Hexham and Newcastle)
Cathedral St Mary's Cathedral
Secular priests 194
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Seamus Cunningham
Metropolitan Archbishop Malcolm McMahon
Vicar General Martin Stempczyk
Episcopal Vicars
  • Jeff Dodds
  • Simon Lerche
  • Ian Hoskins
  • Keith Walker
  • Colm Hayden
Map
The Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle within the Province of Liverpool
The Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle within the Province of Liverpool
Website
rcdhn.org.uk

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle is a Roman Catholic diocese of the Latin Rite centred on St Mary's Cathedral in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. The diocese is one of the six suffragan sees in the ecclesiastical Province of Liverpool and covers much of North-East England.

The Diocese of Hexham was revived in 1850 by decree of Pope Pius IX, restoring the Catholic hierarchy to England and Wales. Although the ancient See of Hexham was founded in 678 it had later lapsed. Together with the See of Lindisfarne, founded by Saint Aidan, Hexham formed the main part of the Northumbrian kingdom's ecclesiastical structure. Among the early bishops elected to the see in 684 was Saint Cuthbert, the present-day patron of the modern diocese and, later, Acca of Hexham.

The modern diocese was expanded to include the title of Newcastle in 1861. Originally under the metropolitan See of Westminster, the diocese became part of the new Province of Liverpool (often referred to as the Northern Province) in 1911.

On the restoration of the diocese in 1850, Pius IX appointed Bishop William Hogarth, Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District, to be the first bishop of the diocese. The Parish Church of Saint Mary, Newcastle upon Tyne, designed by Augustus Welby Pugin, was selected as the seat for the new bishop, gaining cathedral status.

In 1924, Pope Pius XI withdrew the old counties of Cumberland and Westmorland to incorporate them into a newly created Diocese of Lancaster. For this reason, the Lancaster diocese still considers St Cuthbert as one of its principal patrons. Other territory was taken from the Archdiocese of Liverpool to form the new see.


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