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Archdiocese of Birmingham gets two new Auxiliary Bishops

April 26, 2024

Pope Francis has appointed two new auxiliary bishops to serve the Archdiocese of Birmingham. Monsignor Timothy Menezes, Dean of St Chad’s Cathedral, and Canon Richard Walker, Vicar General, will serve the Archdiocese of Birmingham as auxiliary bishops, notes the archdiocese’s website. The role of an auxiliary bishop is to assist the diocesan bishop in the

Michael Hodgetts: distinguished recusant historian who oversaw the restoration of Harvington Hall

December 26, 2022

Priest-holes – those small spaces in old English houses which sheltered mission priests in the dangerous days of the Elizabethan persecutions – have always occupied a place in the imagination of the history of the Catholic Church in England, for many a priest was dragged from them to torture, trial and Tyburn for his part

Cardinal reflects on murdered priest’s final words in an address to Birmingham clergy

September 13, 2016

Fr Jacques Hamel is reported to have said 'go away Satan' before he was killed

Archbishop: many people today do not know the basic facts of Jesus’s life

November 28, 2014

Archbishop Longley, praising a Nativity exhibition, says story 'needs to be retold'

‘Be slow to judge,’ archbishop tells parishes

December 30, 2013

Archbishop Longley said that parishes must reach out to victims of family breakdown

Muslim group to use former Catholic church as a mosque

October 22, 2013

St Peter’s Catholic church in Cobridge will be used as a mosque following its sale

Birmingham archdiocese sells church to Muslim community

October 17, 2013

St Peter's church in Stoke-on-Trent has been sold to the local Muslim community

Archbishops mourn veteran English Catholic journalist Peter Jennings

September 11, 2013

Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster says 'Peter will be sorely missed'

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