Bishop of Menevia

This article is about the role from 1898 to 2024. For the medieval bishops of St Davids (Latin: Menevia), see Bishop of St David's.
Bishop of Menevia
Bishopric
catholic
Location
Ecclesiastical provinceCardiff
Information
First holderFrancis Mostyn
DenominationCatholic Church
Established1898
Dissolved2024
DioceseMenevia
CathedralSt Joseph's Cathedral, Swansea
Website
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The Bishop of Menevia was the ordinary of the Diocese of Menevia in the Province of Cardiff in the Catholic Church in Wales.[1]

The Diocese of Menevia covered an area of 9,716 km2 (3,751 sq mi) roughly consisting of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, the City and County of Swansea and the ancient counties of Brecknockshire and Radnorshire.[1] The see was in Swansea, where the seat was located at Saint Joseph's Cathedral.[1]

The Vicariate Apostolic of Wales was elevated to diocese status on 12 May 1898. The present territory of the Diocese dates from the restructuring of the Province of Cardiff by Pope John Paul II on 12 February 1987. The seat of Bishop was vacant following the retirement of Rt. Reverend Thomas Burns, S.M. in July 2019. The Diocese was overseen by the Apostolic Administrator The Most Reverend Archbishop George Stack of the Archdiocese of Cardiff. Following Stack's retirement in 2022, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Mark O’Toole as metropolitan archbishop of Cardiff and bishop of Menevia, Wales, uniting the two sees in persona Episcopi.[2]

The estimated Catholic population of the Diocese was 26,266 out of a total population of 788,550 (3.3%).

The diocese was merged in 2024 into the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia.

  1. ^ a b c "Diocese of Menevia". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 25 June 2009.
  2. ^ "Resignations and Appointments, 27.04.2022". Vatican. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2022.