Diocese of Plymouth
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Diocese of Plymouth Dioecesis Plymuthensis |
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| Location | |
| Country | England |
| Territory | The counties of Cornwall, Devon, and Dorset |
| Ecclesiastical province | Southwark |
| Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Southwark |
| Deaneries | 5 |
| Coordinates | 50°35′28″N 3°59′13″W / 50.591°N 3.987°WCoordinates: 50°35′28″N 3°59′13″W / 50.591°N 3.987°W |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 12,831 km2 (4,954 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2013) 3,750,000 69,310 (1.8%) |
| Parishes | 63 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 29 September 1850 |
| Cathedral | Plymouth Cathedral |
| Secular priests | 102 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Mark O'Toole |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Peter Smith |
| Vicar General | Monsignor Canon R. Draper |
| Emeritus Bishops | Christopher Budd |
| Map | |
 Diocese of Plymouth within the Province of Southwark |
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| Website | |
| plymouth-diocese.org.uk | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth is a Latin Church Roman Catholic diocese in England. The episcopal see is in the city of Plymouth, Devon, where the bishop's seat (cathedra) is located at the Cathedral Church of St Mary and St Boniface.
Erected as the Diocese of Plymouth in 1850 by Pope Pius IX, from the Apostolic Vicariate of the Western District, the diocese has remained jurisdictionally constant since. The diocese is currently a suffragan see of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Southwark.
The diocese covers the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, stretching from Penzance and the Isles of Scilly in the west, to parts of Bournemouth in the east. It is divided into five deaneries: Cornwall, Dorset, Exeter, Plymouth, and Torbay. There are chaplaincies at the universities of Bournemouth, Exeter and Plymouth.
The diocese includes the Grail Centre in Pinner in the London Borough of Harrow, a lay community of single Roman Catholic women. The Centre promotes a wider "Grail community" to include non-resident women and families, and also publishes a translation of the Psalms.
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