NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bishop of Shrewsbury

The diocese covers an area of 6,136 km� of the Counties of Cheshire, Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin with parts of Derbyshire, Halton, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Warrington. The see is in the town of Shrewsbury where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Our Lady Help of Christians and Saint Peter of Alcantara.

The diocese was erected on 29 September 1850 from parts of the Vicariate Apostolics of the Central, Lancashire District and Wales Districts. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Brian Michael Noble, the 10th Bishop of Shrewsbury.

List of the Bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury, 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 14 October 1881	James Brown	Ordained 27 July 1857; died in office
25 April 1882 to 28 May 1895	Edmund Knight	Auxiliary Bishop of Shrewsbury; resigned
11 May 1895 to 14 January 1897	John Carroll	Coadjutor Bishop of Shrewsbury; ded in office
19 April 1897 to 13 May 1908	Samuel Webster Allen	Ordained 16 June 1897; died in office
1 August 1908 to 17 December 1934	Hugh Singleton	Priest; ordained 21 September 1908; died in office
17 December 1934 to 3 June 1949	Ambrose James Moriarty	Coadjutor Bishop of Shrewsbury; died in office
3 June 1949 to 22 August 1961	John Aloysius Murphy	Coadjutor Bishop of Shrewsbury; appointed Archbishop of Cardiff
26 April 1962 to 20 March 1980	William Eric Grasar	Priest; ordained 27 June 1962; resigned
19 August 1980 to 23 June 1995	Joseph Gray	Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool; retired
23 June 1995 to present	Brian Michael Noble	Priest of Lancaster; ordained 30 August 1995


Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Great Britain
England and Wales
Archdioceses	Dioceses
Liverpool	Hallam \| Hexham and Newcastle \| Lancaster \| Leeds \| Middlesbrough \| Salford
Westminster	Brentwood \| East Anglia \| Northampton \| Nottingham
Birmingham	Clifton \| Shrewsbury
Cardiff	Menevia \| Wrexham
Southwark	Arundel & Brighton \| Plymouth \| Portsmouth
Scotland
Glasgow	Motherwell \| Paisley
Saint Andrews & Edinburgh	Aberdeen \| Argyll & the Isles \| Dunkeld \| Galloway
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Shrewsbury (846 words)
	Lichfield, and the rest of Shropshire was under the Bishop of Hereford.
	Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire, and is under the
	The first bishop of the diocese was James Brown (1812-81), president of Sedgeley Park School, who was consecrated 27 July, 1851.

Bishop Joseph Gray RIP (556 words)
	Bishop Joseph Gray, former Bishop of Shrewsbury and Auxiliary of Liverpool, died peacefully on 7 May 1999, aged 89.
	He was consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool on 16 February 1969 by Archbishop George Andrew Beck, and was given responsibility for the pastoral care of five deaneries - Wigan, Chorley, Leigh, Ashton and Leyland - with a total of fifty three parishes.
	Bishop Gray's time as Bishop of Shrewsbury was one of significant development in various aspects of pastoral work.

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List of the Bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury, England

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