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Located in the Clifton area of the city, it is the seat and mother church of the Diocese of Clifton and is known as Clifton Cathedral. It has been a Grade II* Listed Building since 2000. [ 1 ] A 2014 study noted it to be the only Catholic church built in the 1970s to have been Grade II* listed. [ 2 ]
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The new Cathedral was begun at a site on Clifton Park, in March 1970 and was consecrated on the Patronal feast of Saints Peter and Paul, 29 June 1973. [3] The ProCathedral was closed. [ 3 ] The ProCathedral parish priest, Rt Rev Mgr Thomas J Hughes ( Protonotary apostolic and Vicar general ), transferred to the new Cathedral parish, serving ...
The Diocese of Clifton is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church centred at the Cathedral Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Clifton, England. The diocese covers the City and County of Bristol and the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire , Somerset, and Wiltshire , an area of 4,215 square miles (10,920 km 2 ).
The bishop of Clifton has jurisdiction over the counties of Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire and the city of Bristol. [ 1 ] The current bishop-elect is the Right Reverend Bosco MacDonald , who was appointed the 10th Bishop of Clifton on 14 March 2024.
In 1978, the parish of All Saints Clifton was joined with that of St John's Clifton to form the Parish of All Saints with St. John Clifton. [3] [5] St John's Church was declared redundant in 1980. [3] [6] In March 2013, the parochial church council voted to rescind Resolutions A and B, and to rescind the petition for alternative episcopal ...
The church was consecrated on 23 April 1912 by the Bishop of Clifton, who was assisted by 24 priests for the ceremony. [12] A stained glass window was added to the west side of the church in June 1928, as a memorial to Canon James O'Shaughnessy who had served as rector of St George's from 1911 until his death in 1927. [ 13 ]
Lang was consecrated as Bishop of Clifton on 28 March 2001 in Clifton Cathedral by his predecessor, Bishop Mervyn Alexander. Bishop Lang chairs the committee for Theology Faith and Culture. He is the co-chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Committee (ARC) and also the co-chair for the Committee for Roman Catholic and United Reformed Church ...