Bishop of Shrewsbury
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The Roman Catholic Bishop of Shrewsbury is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury in the Province of Birmingham.
The diocese covers an area of 6,136 km² of the Counties of Cheshire, Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin with parts of Derbyshire, Halton, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Warrington. The see is in the town of Shrewsbury where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Our Lady Help of Christians and Saint Peter of Alcantara.
The diocese was erected on 29 September 1850 from parts of the Vicariates Apostolic of the Central, Lancashire and Wales Districts. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Brian Noble, the 10th Bishop of Shrewsbury.
[edit] List of the Bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury, England
(Any dates appearing in italics indicate de facto continuation of office. The start date of tenure below is the date of appointment or succession. Where known, the date of installation and ordination as bishop are listed in the notes together with the post held prior to appointment.)
| Tenure | Incumbent | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 27 June 1851 to 14 October 1881 | James Brown | Ordained 27 July 1857; died in office |
| 25 April 1882 to 28 May 1895 | Edmund Knight | Auxiliary Bishop of Shrewsbury; resigned |
| 11 May 1895 to 14 January 1897 | John Carroll | Coadjutor Bishop of Shrewsbury; died in office |
| 19 April 1897 to 13 May 1908 | Samuel Webster Allen | Ordained 16 June 1897; died in office |
| 1 August 1908 to 17 December 1934 | Hugh Singleton | Priest; ordained 21 September 1908; died in office |
| 17 December 1934 to 3 June 1949 | Ambrose James Moriarty | Coadjutor Bishop of Shrewsbury; died in office |
| 3 June 1949 to 22 August 1961 | John Aloysius Murphy | Coadjutor Bishop of Shrewsbury; appointed Archbishop of Cardiff |
| 26 April 1962 to 20 March 1980 | William Eric Grasar | Priest; ordained 27 June 1962; resigned |
| 19 August 1980 to 23 June 1995 | Joseph Gray | Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool; retired |
| 23 June 1995 to present | Brian Noble | Priest of Lancaster; ordained 30 August 1995 |
| Catholic Hierarchy in England and Wales | ||
| Archbishops | Bishops | |
| England | ||
| Liverpool | Hallam | Hexham and Newcastle | Lancaster | Leeds | Middlesbrough | Salford | |
| Westminster | Brentwood | East Anglia | Northampton | Nottingham | |
| Birmingham | Clifton | Shrewsbury | |
| Southwark | Arundel & Brighton | Plymouth | Portsmouth | |
| Other dioceses | Bishopric of the Forces | Apostolic Exarchate for Ukrainians | |
| Wales | ||
| Cardiff | Menevia | Wrexham | |
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[edit] See also
Province of Westminster: Thomas McMahon (Brentwood) | Michael Evans (East Anglia) | Peter Doyle (Northampton) | Malcolm McMahon (Nottingham) | Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor (Westminster)
Province of Birmingham: Vincent Nichols (Birmingham) | Declan Lang (Clifton) | Brian Noble (Shrewsbury)
Province of Liverpool: John Rawsthorne (Hallam) | Patrick O'Donoghue (Lancaster) | Arthur Roche (Leeds) | Patrick Kelly (Liverpool) | Kevin Dunn (Hexham and Newcastle) | Terence Brain (Diocese of Salford)
Province of Southwark: Kieran Conry (Arundel and Brighton) | Christopher Budd (Plymouth) | Crispian Hollis (Portsmouth) | Kevin McDonald (Southwark)
Province of Cardiff: Peter Smith (Cardiff) | Mark Jabalé (Menevia) | Edwin Regan (Wrexham)
Military Ordinariate Bishopric of the Forces: Tom Burns (Bishopric of the Forces)
The Apostolic Exarchate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Great Britain: vacant (Apostolic Exarchate for Ukrainians)
