Deanery: Northampton Pastoral Area: St Thomas of Canterbury
Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate & St Thomas of Canterbury
(1821, Rev Magrath here. He left before the end of 1821. 1823: Chapel 30 Nov. Rev Foley on Black Lion Hill. 1825: 25 Oct. Chapel of St Andrew, Rev Foley. 1844: 25 June, Collegiate Chapel of St Felix, Bishop Wareing, 1864: 28 April, Cathedral, Bishop Amherst. 1959: Enlargement, Bishop Parker. 1960: 22 June Consecration, Bishop Parker. 1998: Re-ordered, Bishop McCartie.)
1 Primrose Hill, Northampton, NN2 6AG
Correspondence Address | Cathedral House 1 Primrose Hill Northampton NN2 6AG |
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Phone | 01604 714556 |
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Good Shepherd Primary, Northampton (0.9 miles)
St Aidan, Northampton (1.1 miles)
St Gregory the Great, Northampton (1.3 miles)
St Patrick, Northampton (2 miles)
Ss Francis and Therese, Northampton (2.4 miles)
The Sacred Heart, Northampton (2.7 miles)
Nearest Schools and Churches are calculated `as the crow flies` and may not be the closest or easiest when travelling.
Northampton General Hospital - Hospital
Readers - Readers
Eucharistic Ministers - Eucharistic Ministers
SVP - St Vincent de Paul (SVP)
Music Group - Music Ministry
Children`s Liturgy - Children`s Liturgy
Welcomers - Welcome & Hospitality
Gardening & Maintenance - Grounds Maintenance
Cleaning - Church Cleaners
Flowers - Flower Arranging
Noticeboards - Other
Catering & Hospitality - Welcome & Hospitality
Health & Safety - Other
Events - Other
Prayer Group - Prayer Group
Choir - Music Ministry
Catechists - First Holy Communion
Altar Servers - Altar Servers
Good Companions - Seniors Group
Bereavement - Bereavement
CAFOD - Cafod
Youth Ministry - Youth
RCIA - RCIA/Adult Formation
Parish Council - Parish Council
Catechists - Children`s Liturgy
Catechists (Confirmation) - Other
- Northampton General Hospital
Cathedral Parish of St Thomas of Canterbury in Northampton, Northamptonshire (Diocese of Northampton).
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An episcopal conference, sometimes called a conference of bishops, is an official assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in a given territory. ... Individual bishops do not relinquish their immediate authority for the governance of their respective dioceses to the conference (Wikipedia).
Dioceses ruled by an archbishop are commonly referred to as archdioceses; most are metropolitan sees, being placed at the head of an ecclesiastical province. A few are suffragans of a metropolitan see or are directly subject to the Holy See.
The term 'archdiocese' is not found in Canon Law, with the terms "diocese" and "episcopal see" being applicable to the area under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of any bishop.[8] If the title of archbishop is granted on personal grounds to a diocesan bishop, his diocese does not thereby become an archdiocese (Wikipedia).
The group of churches that a bishop supervises is known as a diocese. Typically, a diocese is divided into parishes that are each overseen by a priest.
The original dioceses, in ancient Rome, were political rather than religious. Rome was divided into dioceses, each of which was made up of many provinces. After Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th century, the term gradually came to refer to religious districts. The Catholic Church has almost 3,000 dioceses. The Greek root of diocese is dioikesis, "government, administration, or province." (Vocabulary.com).
As of April 2020, in the Catholic Church there are 2,898 regular dioceses: 1 papal see, 649 archdioceses (including 9 patriarchates, 4 major archdioceses, 560 metropolitan archdioceses, 76 single archdioceses) (Wikipedia).
Each diocese is within a Province - a group of Dioceses - the Archdiocese is the main Diocese within that Diocese. The bishop of that Archdiocese is therefore automatically an Archbishop. If a bishop has been made an Archbishop personally is referred to as an Archbishop but it does not make their Diocese an Archdiocese.
A subdivision of a diocese, consisting of a number parishes, over which presides a dean appointed by a bishop. The duty of the dean is to watch over the clergy of the deanery, to see that they fulfill the orders of the bishop, and observe the liturgical and canon laws. He summons the conference of the deanery and presides at it. Periodically he makes a report to the bishop on conditions in the deanery.www.catholicculture.org
In the Roman Catholic Church, a parish (Latin: parochia) is a stable community of the faithful within a particular church, whose pastoral care has been entrusted to a parish priest (Latin: parochus), under the authority of the diocesan bishop. It is the lowest ecclesiastical subdivision in the Catholic episcopal polity, and the primary constituent unit of a diocese. In the 1983 Code of Canon Law, parishes are constituted under cc. 515–552, entitled "Parishes, Pastors, and Parochial Vicars." Wikipedia