| Diocese of Plymouth Dioecesis Plymuthensis |
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Cathedral Church of St Mary and St Boniface |
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| Location | |
| Country | England |
| Territory | The counties of Cornwall, Devon, and Dorset |
| Ecclesiastical province | Southwark |
| Metropolitan | Southwark |
| Deaneries | 5 |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 12,831 km2 (4,954 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2004) 2,548,200 53,679 (2.1%) |
| Parishes | 95 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Established | 29 September 1850 |
| Cathedral | Plymouth Cathedral |
| Secular priests | 102 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Benedict XVI |
| Bishop | Hugh Christopher Budd |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Peter Smith |
| Vicars General | Monsignor Canon R. Draper |
| Map | |
Diocese of Plymouth within the Province of Southwark |
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| Website | |
| plymouth-diocese.org.uk | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth is a Latin Rite Roman Catholic diocese in England. The episcopal see is Cathedral Church of St Mary and St Boniface, located in Plymouth, Devon. The diocese covers the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, stretching from Penzance and the Isles of Scilly in the west, to parts of Bournemouth in the east. It is divided into five deaneries: Cornwall, Dorset, Exeter, Plymouth, and Torbay. The Diocesan Bishop is the Right Reverend Hugh Christopher Budd who is assisted by a Vicar General. There are chaplaincies at the universities of Bournemouth, Exeter and Plymouth.
The diocese includes the Grail Centre in Pinner, Middlesex, a lay community of single Catholic women. The Centre promotes a wider "Grail community" to include non-resident women and families, and also publishes a translation of the Psalms.
Erected as the Diocese of Plymouth in 1850 by Pope Pius IX, from the Apostolic Vicariate of Western District, the diocese has remained jurisdictionally constant since. The diocese is currently a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Southwark.
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