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BIRMINGHAM, ARCHDIOCESE of. – The city is one of the most populous in England, in the county of Warwick, known especially for its metallurgical industries. Initially the administrative center of the central apostolic vicariate, B. was erected as a diocese on 29 Sept. 1850 by the brief Universalis Ecclesiae, which re-established the hierarchy in England, with Westminster as metropolitan see and 12 suffragan bishoprics. The brief assigned to the diocese of B. the counties of Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, and Oxfordshire, which still constitute its territory today. On 27 Oct. 1911, the bull Si qua est of Pius X divided the province of Westminster into three provinces, namely Westminster, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The latter metropolitan see had as its suffragans the bishoprics of Clifton, Menevia, Newport, Plymouth, and Shrewsbury. On 7 Feb. 1916, another bull detached the two Welsh dioceses of Menevia and Newport from the province of B. in order to form the province of Cardiff in Wales.
BIRMANIA — Indigenous man cared for in the mission of Mandalay.The Cathedral, dedicated to S. Chad, was consecrated on 21 June 1841, and the diocese has the Immaculate Conception as its patroness. The archdiocese has an area of 8,735 sq. km. and a population of 3,593,301 inhabitants, of whom 164,000 are Catholics. It has 171 parishes, 289 diocesan priests, and 212 religious priests.
BIBL.: B. Stapleton, A History of the Post-reformation Catholic Missions in Oxfordshire, Londra 1906; J. Caswell, s. V. in The Cath. Enc., II (1907), p. 578 ff.; XVII (Suppl., 1922), p. 108; AAS, 3 (1911), pp. 553–55; 8 (1916), pp. 257–59; C. Butler, The life and times of bishop Ullathorne, 1806-1889, 2 vols., Londra 1926; D. Mathew, s. V. in DHG, VIII (1935), cols. 1536–37, and G. Constant, s. V. in Angleterre, III (1924), cols. 218–29; The Official Catholic Directory, Nuova York 1939, part 4°, pp. 55–57. Corrado Morin
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“BIRMINGHAM, ARCIDIOCESI DI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 966. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/birmingham-arcidiocesi-di.
