Anglican Diocese of Birmingham

Diocese of Birmingham Dioecesis Birminghamiensis
Location
Ecclesiastical province	Canterbury
Archdeaconries	Aston, Birmingham
Statistics
Parishes	162
Churches	195
Information
Cathedral	Cathedral Church of Saint Philip
Current leadership
Bishop	David Urquhart, Bishop of Birmingham
Suffragan	Anne Hollinghurst, Bishop of Aston
Dean	Matt Thompson, Dean-designate of Birmingham
Archdeacons	Hayward Osborne, Archdeacon of Birmingham Simon Heathfield, Archdeacon of Aston
Website
birmingham.anglican.org

The Diocese of Birmingham is a diocese in the Church of England's Province of Canterbury, covering the north west of the traditional county of Warwickshire (now West Midlands and part of Staffordshire, Warwickshire and north Worcestershire) in England.

Cathedral

The see is in the centre of the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, where the seat of the diocese is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Philip.

The 18th-century parish church of Saint Philip in Birmingham was elevated to cathedral status in 1905 when the see was founded, on 13 January 1905.^[1] Previously the area had been part of the Diocese of Worcester.

Bishops

Besides the diocesan Bishop of Birmingham, David Urquhart and the Bishop suffragan of Aston (Anne Hollinghurst; which see was created in 1954), there are five retired bishops resident in (or near) the diocese who are licensed to serve as honorary assistant bishops:^[2]

• 1996–present: Michael Whinney is a retired former Canon Residentiary of Birmingham Cathedral (and assistant bishop), prior to which he was the diocesan Bishop of Southwell. He lives in Moseley and served as Acting Bishop of Birmingham (2005–2006).^[3]
• 2002–present: Maurice Sinclair is a retired former Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone living in Selly Park.^[4]
• 2003–present: Mark Santer is a retired former diocesan Bishop of Birmingham living in Moseley.^[5]
• 2005–present: Iraj Mottahedeh is a retired former diocesan Bishop of Iran who lives in Church Aston in the neighbouring Lichfield diocese.^[6]

Since 1994, alternative episcopal oversight (for parishes in the diocese who reject the ministry of priests who are women) is provided by the provincial episcopal visitor, Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet since 2013, who is licensed as an honorary assistant bishop of the diocese in order to facilitate his work there.

List of parish churches

See also

• Religion in Birmingham

References

1. ↑ "No. 27754". The London Gazette. 13 January 1905. pp. 311–312. 
2. ↑ Section: Honorary Assistant Bishops
3. ↑ Whinney, Rt Rev. Michael Humphrey Dickens. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 25 April 2014. 
4. ↑ Sinclair, Rt Rev. Maurice Walter. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 25 April 2014. 
5. ↑ Santer, Rt Rev. Mark. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 25 April 2014. 
6. ↑ "Iraj Kalimi Mottahedeh". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 18 June 2016.  (subscription required)

• Church of England statistics 2002
• Book: Canon Doctor Terry Slater, 2005, A Centenary History of the Diocese of Birmingham, Phillimore, Chichester

External links

• Diocesan website
• Churches in the Diocese of Birmingham ("A Church Near You")

Anglican dioceses in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Church of England (list of dioceses)	Province of Canterbury Bath and Wells Birmingham Bristol Canterbury Chelmsford Chichester Coventry Derby Ely Europe Exeter Gloucester Guildford Hereford Leicester Lichfield Lincoln London Norwich Oxford Peterborough Portsmouth Rochester St Albans St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Salisbury Southwark Truro Winchester Worcester Province of York Blackburn Carlisle Chester Durham Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle Sheffield Sodor and Man Southwell and Nottingham York
Church in Wales	Bangor Llandaff Monmouth St Asaph St David's Swansea and Brecon
Scottish Episcopal Church	Aberdeen and Orkney Argyll and The Isles Brechin Edinburgh Glasgow and Galloway Moray, Ross and Caithness St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane
Church of Ireland	Province of Armagh Armagh Clogher Connor Derry and Raphoe Down and Dromore Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh Tuam, Killala and Achonry Province of Dublin Cashel and Ossory Cork, Cloyne and Ross Dublin and Glendalough Limerick and Killaloe Meath and Kildare