A History of the Archdiocese of Southwark from 1850 to the Present Day - Softcover

Clifton, Michael

9781901157123: A History of the Archdiocese of Southwark from 1850 to the Present Day

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1901157121 ISBN 13: 9781901157123

Publisher: Saint Austin Pr, 2000

This popular History of the Archdiocese of Southwark will appeal both to social and religious historians of the past 150 years and to Catholics wishing to reflect on the past which has made the contemporary Church what she is.

Fr. Clifton traces the development of the Diocese from its foundation at the restoration of the English Hierarchy in 1850 up to the present day, under each of its Bishops, including such men as Thomas Grant, Cardinal Francis Bourne and the great Archbishop Peter Amigo. He provides a detailed overview of the progress of the Catholic educational system in the Diocese, and the part played by Religious Orders in the mission of the Diocese. He looks at topics such as the Modernist crisis and the Tyrell case, financial administration adn the histories of the diocesan seminaries and official diocesan societies.

There are portraits of many Southwark priests who became Bishops and brief features on the most historic and interesting parishes, arranged by Deanary.

The book includes a preface from the current Archbishop, Most Rev. Michael Bowen.

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When considering the history of the diocese we will do well to remember that at the start there were no parishes as such with carefully defined boundaries, only a set of missions which had been established much earlier and often indeed in areas where few Catholics were than to be found. In that part of Southwark Diocese which constitutes the present Diocese (i.e. Kent and South London) there were very few Catholics apart from in the areas immediately to the south of the River. Our oldest parish in London, based on the fact that one can distinguish a definite mission there, is Bermondsey Dockhead which dates from 1773, before the passing of the relief acts.

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