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Robert Joseph Baker (born June 4, 1944, in Willard, Ohio) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.He served as bishop of the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama from 2007 to 2019 and as bishop of the Diocese of Charleston in South Carolina from 1999 to 2007
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 km 2 ), encompassing Staffordshire , the West Midlands , Warwickshire , Worcestershire and much of Oxfordshire as well as Caversham in Berkshire .
The Birmingham area would remain part of the Diocese of Mobile, succeeded by the Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham, for the next 135 years. In 1844, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, the first Catholic church in Tuscaloosa, was opened. [10] The first Catholic church in Birmingham was St. Paul's, opened in 1872. [11] St.
The Archbishop of Birmingham heads the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham in England. [1] As such he is the metropolitan archbishop of the Province of Birmingham. [2] The archdiocese covers an area of 8,735 km 2 (3,400 sq mi) [3] and spans of the counties of Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
Erdington Abbey Church (grid reference) on Sutton Road, Erdington, Birmingham, England, is the more usual name of the grade II listed church of Saints Thomas and Edmund of Canterbury. It is the church of a Roman Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Birmingham served by the Redemptorists .
The parish is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham and a part of the Rugby Deanery. The current Parish Priest is Fr. Michael Gamble. [2] The parish is jointly administered with the neighbouring parish of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Bulkington (whilst still remaining technically separate).
The Coventry Deanery is a Roman Catholic Deanery in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham. Comprising fifteen parishes in the City of Coventry [1] (together with chaplaincy's to both the University of Warwick [2] and University Hospital Coventry), [3] it is part of the Southern pastoral area. [4]
The pastor of any particular church other than an ordinariate must be episcopally ordained, but his title conforms to that of his jurisdiction: the pastor of an archdiocese is an archbishop, the pastor of a diocese is a bishop, the pastor of an archeparchy is an archeparch, the pastor of an eparchy is an eparch, and the pastor of an exarchate is an exarch.