Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham

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Archdiocese of Birmingham Archidioecesis Birminghamiensis
Coat of arms
Location
Country	England
Territory	Warwickshire  Oxfordshire  Staffordshire  West Midlands  Worcestershire
Ecclesiastical province	Birmingham
Deaneries	11
Subdivisions	3 Pastoral Areas
Statistics
Area	8,735 km2 (3,373 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2015) 4,993,000 443,300 (8.9%)
Parishes	224
Schools	250
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	29 September 1850 (As Diocese of Birmingham) 28 October 1911 (As Archdiocese of Birmingham)
Cathedral	Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Saint Chad, Birmingham
Patron Saints	Our Blessed Lady Conceived Without Sin (8 December), Saint Chad (1 March), Blessed Charles Acutis (12 October)
Secular priests	214 (+100 deacons)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Bernard Longley
Auxiliary Bishops	David Evans[1]
Vicar General	Richard Walker
Episcopal Vicars	Paul Fitzpatrick Paul McNally Gary Buckby Anna O'Connor Laurence Hughes
Judicial Vicar	Joseph McLoughlin
Bishops emeritus	Philip Pargeter Leonard William Kenney
Map
The Archdiocese of Birmingham within the Province of Birmingham
Website
birminghamdiocese.org.uk

The Archdiocese of Birmingham is one of the principal Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. The archdiocese covers an area of 3,373 square miles (8,740 km²), encompassing Staffordshire, the West Midlands, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and much of Oxfordshire as well as Caversham in Berkshire. The metropolitan see is in the City of Birmingham at the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Saint Chad. The metropolitan province includes the suffragan dioceses of Clifton and Shrewsbury.

The archbishop is Bernard Longley, who was named the ninth Archbishop of Birmingham on 1 October 2009. He succeeds the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols (2000–09). Longley was installed as Archbishop of Birmingham at the Metropolitan Cathedral and Basilica of Saint Chad on 8 December 2009, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception and one of the patronal feasts of the archdiocese, St Chad being the other.