Bishop of Salford
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The Bishop of Salford is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford in the Province of Liverpool, known also on occasion as the Northern Province.
With the gradual abolition of the legal restrictions on the activities of Catholics in England and Wales in the early 19th century, Rome decided to proceed to bridge the gap of the centuries from Queen Elizabeth I by instituting Catholic dioceses on the regular historical pattern. Thus Pope Pius IX issued the Bull Universalis Ecclesiae of 29 September 1850 by which thirteen new dioceses which did not formally claim any continuity with the pre-Elizabethan English dioceses were created.
One of these was the diocese of Salford, which took up the reins from the Vicariate Apostolic of the Lancashire District.
In the early period from 1850 the diocese was a suffragan of the Metropolitan See of Westminster, but a further development was its assignment under Pope Pius X, on 28 October 1911, to a newly created Province of Liverpool.
At the diocese's creation the territory assigned to it was the Hundreds of Salford and Blackburn. The diocese currently covers an area of 1,600 km² of Greater Manchester and adjacent parts of Lancashire.
The see is in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, where the Bishop's cathedra or seat is located in the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Evangelist, which was dedicated on 14 June 1890.
The Bishop's residence is Wardley Hall, Worsley, Manchester.
The current bishop is the Right Reverend Terence John Brain, the 10th Bishop of Salford, who was installed on 7 October 1997.
[edit] List of the Bishops of the Catholic Diocese of Salford, 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 13 July 1872 | William Turner | Priest; died in office |
| 27 September 1872 to 8 April 1892 | Herbert Vaughan | Priest; ordained 28 October 1872; appointed Archbishop of Westminster |
| 15 July 1892 to 5 March 1903 | John Bilsborrow | Priest; ordained 24 August 1892; died in office |
| 28 August 1903 to 18 January 1925 | Louis Charles Casartelli | Priest; 21 September 1903; died in office |
| 14 December 1925 to 23 September 1938 | Thomas Henshaw | Priest; ordained 21 December 1925; died in office |
| 5 August 1939 to 14 April 1955 | Henry Vincent Marshall | Priest; ordained 21 September 1939; died in office |
| 28 November 1955 to 29 January 1964 | George Andrew Beck, AA | Bishop of Brentwood; appointed Archbishop of Liverpool |
| 28 August 1964 to 22 June 1983 | Thomas Holland | Coadjutor Bishop of Portsmouth; retired |
| 9 March 1984 to 21 May 1996 | Patrick Altham Kelly | Priest; ordained 3 April 1984 appointed Archbishop of Liverpool |
| 2 September 1997 to present | Terence John Brain | Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham |
| 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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