Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds
The Diocese of Leeds is a Roman Catholic diocese of the Latin Rite centred around Leeds Cathedral in the city of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 20 December 1878, with the splitting of the Diocese of Beverley which had covered all of Yorkshire. The Diocese of Leeds was made to cover the historic West Riding of Yorkshire, while the Diocese of Middlesbrough took over the organisation of the rest of Yorkshire.
History
The diocese was created on 20 December 1878 when the then Diocese of Beverley, which covered the whole of Yorkshire, was divided into the the Diocese of Leeds, covering the West Riding of Yorkshire and those parishes in the City of York to the south of the River Ouse, and the Diocese of Middlesbrough, covering the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire and those parishes in the City of York to the north of the River Ouse. In 1982 the two York parishes south of the River Ouse were ceded to the Diocese of Middlesbrough to unite the City of York under one bishop. The parish of Howden was transferred from the Middlesbrough diocese to the Leeds diocese in 2004.
Parishes
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Below is a list of the parishes which fall under the Diocese of Leeds, they are presented within the deanery which they are grouped in.
Bradford
- North: Most Holy Trinity, Bradford • Our Lady And The First Martyrs, Bradford • Our Lady Of Lourdes & St William's, Bradford • Sacred Heart, Bingley • Sacred Heart, Bradford • St Aidan, Baildon • St Anthony of Padua, Shipley • St Cuthbert, Bradford
- East: Immaculate Conception, Idle •
- South: Our Lady & St Francis Of Assisi, Eccleshill • Our Lady and St Peter, Bradford • Our Lady Of Czestochowa, Bradford • Our Lady Of Perpetual Succour & St Clare, Fagley • St Anthony Of Padua, Clayton • St Columba, Bradford • St Theresa & St Winefride, Whibsey• St John The Evangelist, Buttershaw • St Joseph, Bradford
Dewsbury
Holy Spirit, Heckmondwike • Our Lady and St Paulinus, Dewsbury • Our Lady Of Unfailing Help & St Paul Of The Cross, Cleckheaton • St Aidan, Mirfield • St Joseph, Batley Carr
Halifax
Good Shepherd, Mytholmroyd • Immaculate Conception, Sicklinghall • Our Lady Of Lourdes & St Malachy, Halifax • Sacred Heart & St Bernard, Halifax • Sacred Heart & St. Patrick, Sowerby Bridge • Sacred Heart Primary School, Sowerby Bridge • St Aidan, Halifax • St Columba, Halifax
Harrogate
Holy Family, Harrogate • Our Lady Immaculate, Pateley Bridge • Our Lady Immaculate & St Robert, Harrogate • St Aelred Of Rievaulx, Harrogate • St Edward King And Confessor, Clifford • St John Fisher School, Harrogate • St Joseph, Bishop Thornton • St Joseph, Harrogate
Huddersfield
English Martyrs, Huddersfield • Holy Family, Slaithwaite • Our Lady Of Czestochowa, Huddersfield • Our Lady Of Lourdes, Huddersfield • Sacred Heart & St. William, Uppermill • St Bartholomew, Meltham • St Joseph, Brighouse • St Joseph, Huddersfield
Keighley and Skipton
Our Lady Of Lourdes, Haworth • Our Lady Of Mount Carmel, Silsden • Our Lady Of Victories, Keighley • Sacred Heart, Skipton • St Anne, Keighley • St Boniface, Bentham • St Joseph, Barnoldswick • St Joseph, Silsden • St Joseph, Ingrow
Leeds
- North: Cathedral Church Of St Anne, Leeds • Holy Rosary, Leeds • Immaculate Heart Of Mary, Moortown • Our Lady Of Czestochowa & St Stainslaw Kostka, Leeds • St Gregory The Great, Leeds •
- East: All Saints Church, Barwick In Elmet • Corpus Christi, Leeds • Out Lady of Good Counsel, Seacroft • St Augustine Of Canterbury, Leeds • St Benedict, Garforth • St John, Halton •
- South: Our Lady Of The Nativity, West Ardsley • St Anthony of Padua, Beeston • St Brigid, Churwell • St Francis Of Assisi, Holbeck • St Francis Of Assisi, Morley • St Joseph, Belle Isle
- West: Assumption Of Our Lady, Leeds • Christ The King, Leeds • Holy Family, Leeds • Holy Name Of Jesus, Leeds • Holy Spirit, Stanningley • Our Lady Of Lourdes, Leeds •
Pontefract
Holy Family, Pontefract • St Edmund, Airedale • St Gerard Majella, Featherstone • St John The Baptist, Normanton • St John The Evangelist, Allerton Bywater • St Joseph, Castleford
Selby
Immaculate Conception & St. John Of Beverley, Scarthingwell • Sacred Heart, Howden
Wakefield
English Martyrs, Wakefield • Our Lady Of Graces, Kinsley • Our Lady Of Lourdes, Ackworth • Sacred Heart, Hemsworth • SS Peter & Paul, Wakefield • St Ignatius, Ossett • St Austin, Wakefield
Wharfedale
Our Lady And All Saints, Otley • Our Lady and English Martyrs, Addingham • Sacred Heart, Ilkley • SS John Fisher and Thomas More, Burley in Wharfedale • SS Peter & Paul, Yeadon
• St Joseph, Moorthorpe • St Joseph, Pontefract • St Joseph, Pudsey • St Joseph, Tadcaster • St Joseph, Crofton • St Joseph, Wetherby • St Joseph and St Peter, Belle Isle • St Joseph and St Thomas, Goole • St Joseph The Worker, Sherburn In Elmet • St Margaret Clitherow, Threshfield • St Marie, Halifax • St Mary, Carlton • St Mary, Horsforth • St Mary, Knaresborough • St Mary, Rothwell • St Mary, Selby • St Mary & St Michel, Settle • St Mary And St Monica, Cottingley • St Mary Of the Angles, Batley • St Matthew, Bradford
Ordinaries
- Robert Cornthwaite: Translated bishop of Leeds, 20 December 1878; died 16 June 1890.
- William Gordon: 16 June 1890; died 7 June 1911.
- Joseph Robert Cowgill: 7 June 1911; died 12 May 1936.
- Henry John Poskitt: 21 September 1936; died 19 February 1950.
- John Carmel Heenan: consecrated bishop of Leeds 12 March 1951; translated to Archdiocese of Liverpool, in 1957.
- George Patrick Dwyer: consecrated bishop of Leeds by Archbishop John Carmel Heenan of Liverpool, 24 September 1957; translated to Archdiocese of Birmingham, in 1965.
- William Gordon Wheeler: installed as bishop of Leeds on 27 June 1966; retired 10 September 1985.
- David Konstant: Appointed Bishop of Leeds on 23 July 1985; installed as Bishop of Leeds on 25 September 1985. Retired 7 April 2004.
- Arthur Roche: Appointed 7 April 2004.
External links
- Official Site
- The Latin Mass Society in the Catholic Diocese of Leeds
- Giga-Catholic Information
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .