Diocese of Brentwood

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Diocese of Brentwood

Bishops' Conference: Bishops` Conference of England and Wales (Cymru)

Address

Brentwood Diocese, Cathedral House, Brentwood, Essex, CM15 9BY

People

Rt Rev Patrick J Casey
Deceased
Rt Rev Alan Williams
Bishop
Mrs Janet Symonds
Secretary
Mr Phil Butcher
Marriage & Family Life Director
Mr Robert Simpson
Director of Schools
Rev George Stokes
Director of Education
Rev John Harvey
Diocesan Communications Officer
Mrs Mary Huntingdon
Press Officer
Rt Rev Thomas McMahon
Bishop Emeritus (Retired)

Contact

Correspondence AddressBrentwood Diocese
Cathedral House
Ingrave Road
Brentwood
Essex
CM15 9BY
External Link to Diocese of Brentwood`s Website: www.dioceseofbrentwood.netwww.dioceseofbrentwood.net

Deaneries

Brentwood,
Barking,
Colchester,
Havering,
Mid-Essex,
Newham,
North Essex,
Redbridge,
Southend,
South Essex,
Waltham Forest,
West Essex,

Catholic Parishes

Holy Cross, South Ockendon
St Augustine`s, Barkingside
St Vincent, Becontree
Holy Family and St Thomas More, Benfleet with Hadleigh
St Sabina and St Monica, Brightlingsea-with-Wivenhoe
St Bede, Chadwell Heath
Christ The King, Chingford 2
St John Vianney, Clayhall
St Joseph, Colchester
Corpus Christi, Collier Row
St Peter, Dagenham 1
Holy Family, Dagenham 2
English Martyrs and Holy Trinity, Danbury and South Woodham Ferrers
St Michael, East Ham
St Peter, Eastwood
St Alban, Elm Park
St Antony Of Padua, Forest Gate
St Cedd, Goodmayes
St John Payne, Greenstead with Ardleigh and Mistley
The Assumption, Hainault
Most Holy Redeemer, Harold Hill 1
St Dominic, Harold Hill 2
St Mary Mother Of God, Hornchurch 1
English Martyrs, Hornchurch 2
St Joseph the Worker, Hutton and Shenfield
St Joseph, Leyton
St Stephen, Manor Park
St Teresa, Newbury Park
St Helen, Ongar
Sacred Heart & St John Fisher, Southend-on-Sea linked with Prittlewell
Our Lady Of Compassion, Saffron Walden
St Anne Line, South Woodford
Our Lady And St Joseph, Stanford-le-Hope
St Theresa Of Lisieux, Stansted Mountfitchet
Our Lady And St Joseph, Stock Ingatestone
St Joseph, Upminster
St Thomas of Canterbury, Woodford Green
Our Lady & St George, Walthamstow 1
St Cuthbert, Burnham-on-Crouch
Our Lady Queen of Heaven, Harwich and Dovercourt

Catholic Groups/Organisations/Religious Orders

Diocesan Schools Commission

- Education/Schools

About Diocese of Brentwood

The Brentwood Diocese is large and a varied Diocese comprising of the Administrative County of Essex, the unitary authorities of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock, and the London Boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest.

Part of the Catholic Church - you can find other Catholic Churches, Catholic Schools or Religious Orders/Houses and Chaplaincies nearby above. Or you can use the Find a Church Near Me box above to search for a Church, School etc.

Useful Definitions of the Structures in the Catholic Church

What is a Catholic Bishops' Conference?

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).

What is an Archdiocese?

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).

What is a Diocese?

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).

What is the difference between a Diocese and an Archdiocese?

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.

What is a Deanery?

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

What is a Parish?

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




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