Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia

The Diocese of East Anglia is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church covering the counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Peterborough in eastern England.  The diocese makes up part of the Catholic Association Pilgrimage. 

Statistics
There are 85,309 members of the church who belong to the 50 parishes in the diocese.  The patrons of the diocese are Our Lady of Walsingham (24 September), St Felix (8 March) and St Edmund (20 November). 

Churches
The diocese is divided into seven deaneries, which are in turn divided into 50 parishes. 

Deanery of Bury St Edmunds (St Edmund) 

Masses are also said at RAF Lakenheath, at Clare Priory, at the Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Quidenham, at the care home of the Sisters of Our Lady of Grace and Compassion in Great Barton, and in the villages of Cavendish and Woolpit. 

Deanery of Cambridge (St Andrew) 

Masses are also said at RAF Alconbury, at Blackfriars, the Dominican Priory of St Michael, Cambridge, at Fisher House University Chaplaincy, and in the villages of Bar Hill and Papworth Everard. 

Deanery of Great Yarmouth (St Peter) 

1No longer listed on diocesan website. 

Deanery of Ipswich (St Edward)
Aldeburgh with Leiston Parish
Our Lady & St Peter, Aldeburgh
All Saints, Leiston
St Felix, Felixstowe
St Cecilia, Trimley St Mary (closed 2010)
St James, Ipswich
St Mark's Parish
St Mark, Ipswich
Holy Family, Brantham
St Mary's Parish
St Mary, Ipswich
Holy Family & St Michael, Kesgrave
St Mary Magdalen, Ipswich
St Pancras, Ipswich
Woodbridge and Framlingham Parish
St Thomas of Canterbury, Woodbridge
St Clare, Framlingham
Ipswich Polish Mission

Deanery of King's Lynn (St Wilfrid)
St Dominic, Downham Market
St Anthony of Padua, Fakenham
Hunstanton and Dersingham Parish
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour & St Edmund King & Martyr, Hunstanton
St Cecilia, Dersingham
King's Lynn Parish
Our Lady, King's Lynn
Holy Family, King's Lynn
Swaffham Parish
Our Lady of Pity, Swaffham
Chapel of the Immaculate Conception & St Margaret, Oxburgh Hall
Basilica of Our Lady of Walsingham
Walsingham Parish
St Henry Walpole, Burnham Market
Our Lady Star of the Sea, Wells-next-the-Sea
Our Lady of the Annunciation, Little Walsingham
St Peter, Blakeney
Our Lady & St Charles Borromeo, Wisbech

Deanery of Norwich (St Felix)
Our Lady & St Walstan, Costessey
The Sacred Heart & St Margaret Mary, East Dereham
North Walsham Parish
Sacred Heart, North Walsham
St John of the Cross, Aylsham
St Helen, Hoveton
Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Norwich
Holy Apostles SS Peter & Paul, Norwich
St George, Norwich
St Boniface, Norwich
Our Lady Mother of God, Norwich
Our Lady of the Annunciation, Poringland
Sheringham and Cromer
St Joseph, Sheringham
Our Lady of Refuge, Cromer
Our Lady & St Thomas of Canterbury, Wymondham
University of East Anglia Catholic Chaplaincy

Deanery of Peterborough (St Hugh)
Our Lady of Good Counsel & St Peter, March
St Peter & All Souls, Peterborough
Our Lady of Lourdes, Peterborough
Ukrainian Catholic Church of St Olga, Peterborough
Sacred Heart & St Oswald, Peterborough
St Luke, Peterborough
Whittlesey and Ramsey
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Ramsey
St Jude the Apostle, Whittlesey
Polish Mission, Peterborough

History
On 13 March 1976, by the decree Quod Ecumenicum, Pope Paul VI formed the Diocese of East Anglia (from the counties of Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk) out of the Diocese of Northampton. 

On 2 June 1976, the new diocese received its first bishop, Alan Clark.  Bishop Clark had previously been auxiliary bishop of Northampton and co-chairman of ARCIC (Anglican/Roman Catholic International Commission), with the cathedral being established at the former parish church of St John the Baptist, Norwich.  As the first bishop of the new diocese, Bishop Clark had to set up all the necessary instruments and commissions for the diocese to operate successfully.  The establishment of the Diocesan Pastoral Council in 1987 strengthened these. 

The diocese continued to grow with the development of the diocesan offices and diocesan tribunal attached to Bishop's House in Poringland near Norwich.  Bishop Clark led a number of Lourdes pilgrimages. 

Ordinaries

Alan Charles Clark (appointed on 26 April 1976 – retired on 21 March 1995) 
Peter David Smith (appointed on 21 March 1995 – translated to the Archdiocese of Cardiff on 26 October 2001) 
Michael Charles Evans (appointed on 14 February 2003 – died in office on 11 July 2011)
Alan Hopes (appointed on 11 June 2013)

Pilgrimage
The diocese makes up part of the Catholic Association Pilgrimage. 

References

External links
 Diocese of East Anglia website

 
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