Diocese of Nottingham

Diocese of Nottingham Dioecesis Nottinghamensis
Location
Country	England
Territory	Counties of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham, Rutland and South Humberside except parts of the High Peak and Chesterfield district of Derby and the district of Bassetlaw in Nottingham.
Ecclesiastical province	Westminster
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Westminster
Deaneries	13
Statistics
Area	13,000 km2 (5,000 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 4,500,000 155,000 (3.4%)
Parishes	108
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite
Cathedral	Nottingham Cathedral
Secular priests	130
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	The Rt Rev. Patrick McKinney
Metropolitan Archbishop	Cardinal Vincent Nichols
Vicar General	Very Rev. Mgr Canon Thomas Patrick McGovern Prot. Ap. VG Very Rev. Fr John Guest VG
Episcopal Vicars	Very Rev. Fr Martin Hardy Very Rev. Fr Michael Moore Very Rev. Fr Gerard Murphy Very Rev. Fr Paul Newman
Judicial Vicar	Very Rev. Fr Peter Vellacott
Map
Diocese of Nottingham within the Province of Westminster
Website
nottingham-diocese.org.uk

The Diocese of Nottingham, England, is a Roman Catholic diocese of the Latin Rite, suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster.

The diocese covers an area of 13,074 square kilometres (5,048 sq mi), taking in the English counties of Nottinghamshire (now excluding the district of Bassetlaw), Leicestershire, most of Derbyshire, Rutland and Lincolnshire. The episcopal seat is the Cathedral Church of St Barnabas in Nottingham.

The Right Reverend Patrick McKinney is the 10th Bishop of Nottingham.

It was one of the original twelve English dioceses created at the time of the restoration of the hierarchy by Pius IX in 1850 embracing the counties of Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Lincoln and Rutland. These had comprised part of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Midland District, when at the request of King James II in 1685, the Holy See divided England into four vicariates: the London, the Northern, the Midland and the Western. Before 1840, when the number of vicars apostolic was increased from four to eight, the Midland District consisted of fifteen counties.

In 1850 Nottingham had 24 permanent missions, many of these little better than villages. For the most part they originated from chaplaincies which had through penal times been maintained by the Catholic nobility and gentry, or had been founded independently by them. Among these there existed foundations of several religious orders. In Derbyshire the Jesuits had missions at Chesterfield and Spinkhill, in Lincolnshire at Lincoln, Boston and Market Rasen. The Dominicans were settled in Leicester, the Fathers of Charity carried on several missions in Leicestershire, and the Cistercians occupied their newly founded Mount St Bernard Abbey in Charnwood Forest.

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