Deanery: St Wilfrid
St Mary
32 High Street, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 1DF
St Columba
23 Fisher Road, Gosport, Hampshire, PO13 0JJ
Rev Matthew King - Parochial Administrator
Clarinda Alvarez Mansfield - Parish Secretary
Mrs Sandra Dugan - Safeguarding
Correspondence Address | Maryhouse 32 High Street Gosport Hampshire PO12 1DF |
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Phone | 023 9258 0119 |
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St Mary`s Primary School, Gosport (1.2 miles)
Our Lady of Lourdes and St Swithun, Southsea (2 miles)
Corpus Christi and St Joseph, Portsmouth (2.4 miles)
Corpus Christi and St Joseph, Portsmouth (2.7 miles)
Our Lady of Lourdes and St Swithun, Southsea (3 miles)
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception and St John the Evangelist, Lee-on-the-Solent (3.1 miles)
Nearest Schools and Churches are calculated `as the crow flies` and may not be the closest or easiest when travelling.
Gosport War Memorial Hospital - Hospital
Knights of St Columba - Knights of St Columba (KSC)
Outreach Ministry - Street Pastors
Adult Choir - Music Ministry
Readers - Readers
Flower Arrangers - Flower Arranging
Money Counters - Finance
Altar Servers - Altar Servers
Junior Choir - Music Ministry
St Mary`s Youth Group - Youth
- Family of Mary Immaculate and St Franciswww.themarianfranciscans.org
- Franciscan Family of the Immaculate Heart and St Maximilian Kolbe
- Gosport War Memorial Hospital
The Parish of St Mary in the Diocese of Portsmouth. The Catholic parish church of GOSPORT.
Groups active in the parish: Evangelisation Team, Musicians/Choir, Eucharistic Adoration, KSC, Pro-Life, Marian Group, Youth Group
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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