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The Bishop of Birmingham heads the Church of England Diocese of Birmingham, in the Province of Canterbury, in England.. The diocese covers the North West of the historical county of Warwickshire and has its see in the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, where the seat of the diocese is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Philip which was elevated to cathedral status in 1905.
Michael John Volland (born 2 May 1974) is a British Anglican bishop and academic, specialising in mission and practical theology.Since November 2023, he has been the tenth Bishop of Birmingham, the diocesan bishop of the Church of England's Diocese of Birmingham.
On 1 October 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Longley as the Archbishop of Birmingham. He succeeded Archbishop Vincent Nichols, who was translated from Birmingham to Westminster earlier in 2009. Archbishop Longley was installed at St Chad's Cathedral on 8 December 2009, the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
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.
In April 2022, it was announced that he would be retiring as Bishop of Birmingham on 18 October 2022. [15] On 2 February 2023, it was announced that Urquhart would become Bishop to the Archbishops (i.e. right-hand bishop to the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York) for a one-year interim period starting during the week beginning 6 February ...
Bishops of the Anglican diocese of Birmingham, with its seat at St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham. Pages in category "Bishops of Birmingham" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The pope named Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Vath from Mobile-Birmingham as the first bishop of Birmingham. [13] In 1980, Pope John Paul II elevated the Diocese of Mobile to a metropolitan archdiocese and designated the Diocese of Birmingham as one of its suffragans. Vath died in 1987.
During the First World War, Wakefield once controversially referred to British Roman Catholics as "guests of the nation". This earned him a rebuke from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton, George Burton. [15] Wakefield's Roman Catholic counterpart at Birmingham at the time was Edward Ilsley, under whose metropolitan jurisdiction Clifton ...