Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool

Archdiocese of Liverpool Archidioecesis Liverpolitanus
Arms of the Archdiocese of Liverpool
Location
Country	England, Isle of Man
Territory	Lancashire south of the Ribble, parts of Merseyside, Cheshire, Greater Manchester and the Isle of Man
Ecclesiastical province	Liverpool
Metropolitan	Liverpool
Statistics
Area	1,165 km2 (450 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 1,900,000 574,150 (30.2%)
Parishes	174
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	Diocese on 29 September 1850 Archdiocese on 28 October 1911
Cathedral	Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King
Secular priests	254
Current leadership
Pope	Pope Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Most Rev Malcolm McMahon
Auxiliary Bishops	Rt Rev Thomas Williams
Emeritus Bishops	Most Rev Patrick Kelly Rt Rev Vincent Malone
Map
The Province of Liverpool, also known as the Northern Province
Website
liverpoolcatholic.org.uk

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool (Latin Archidioecesis Liverpolitanus) is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church that covers the Isle of Man and part of North West England. The episcopal see is Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. The Archdiocese is the centre of the Ecclesiastical Province of Liverpool which covers the north of England as well as the Isle of Man.

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With the gradual abolition of the legal restrictions on the activities of Roman Catholics in England and Wales in the early 19th century, Rome decided to proceed to bridge the gap of the centuries from Queen Elizabeth I by instituting Catholic dioceses on the regular historical pattern. Thus Pope Pius IX issued the Bull Universalis Ecclesiae of 29 September 1850 by which thirteen new dioceses which did not formally claim any continuity with the pre-Elizabethan English dioceses were created.

One of these was the diocese of Liverpool. Initially it comprised the Hundreds of West Derby, Leyland, Fylde, Amounderness and Lonsdale in Lancashire and the Isle of Man.

In the early period from 1850 the diocese was a suffragan of the Metropolitan See of Westminster, but a further development was the creation under Pope Pius X on 28 October 1911, of a new Province of Liverpool (also known as the Northern Province).