Diocese of Shrewsbury

Our school and Parish are in the Diocese of Shrewsbury.  The website for the Diocese can be accessed here. The diocesan education team provide regular, high quality CPDF opportunities for our school leaders, teachers and governors. Staff have regular opportunities to attend training for Religous Education, prayer and liturgy. :                                  

2 Park Rd South, Prenton, CH43 4UX

Bishop of Shrewsbury

The Bishop of the Diocese of Shrewsbury is The Right Reverend Mark Davies. He is the 11th Bishop of Shrewsbury. 

The Right Reverend Mark Davies was born in Manchester on 12^th May 1959 and baptised at St Richard’s Church, Longsight.

Bishop Davies was educated at St Richard’s Infant School and St Robert’s Primary School in Manchester and at Broadstone Hall County Primary School and St Anne’s High School in Stockport before beginning his training for the priesthood at Ushaw College, Durham.

Ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Thomas Holland of Salford on 11^th February 1984 he served as an assistant priest at Our Lady of Grace, Prestwich, and St Mary’s, Swinton, before he was appointed private secretary to Archbishop Patrick Kelly (then Bishop of Salford) in 1988.  From December 1992 until September 2003 the then Father Davies was parish priest of St. John Bosco, Manchester, and was also appointed Dean of North Manchester in 1999.

In January 2003 Bishop Terence Brain of Salford appointed the then Monsignor Davies as Vicar General of the Salford Diocese. As Vicar General he served as the parish priest of St Teresa Little Lever between 2003 and 2006, St Joseph Longsight between 2006 and 2007 and Holy Family, Wigan, between 2007 and 2009.

In December 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appointed Monsignor Davies as the Coadjutor Bishop of Shrewsbury. He was ordained Bishop on 22^nd February 2010 at St Anthony’s, Wythenshawe, Manchester.  On 1^st October 2010 Bishop Davies became the 11th Bishop of Shrewsbury in succession to Bishop Brian Noble.

Diocesan Bishops hold Canonical responsibility for the oversight of all Catholic education within their Dioceses.  Their primary objective in relation to Catholic schools is to assist parents by ensuring that:

• there are sufficient places in Catholic schools to meet the needs of Catholic children resident in their areas;
• the formation and education provided by the schools is authentically Catholic; and
• the educational standards are outstanding.

The Diocesan Bishop has the right of supervision, visitation and inspection of Catholic Schools in his Diocese pursuant to Canon law.

‘Diocese’ is the territorial division of the Catholic Church led by a Diocesan Bishop, who is responsible for all Catholic Schools in his area.  Each Diocese will have a Diocesan Schools Commission (sometimes called a Diocesan Education Service or similar) led by a Diocesan Schools Commissioner (sometimes called a Diocesan Director of Education), who will exercise the Diocesan Bishop’s education functions on his behalf.  Dioceses are independent charitable foundations, governed by charity law and their own constitutions, and are not themselves part of State provision of education, rather they are partners with the State.

The Catholic Church expects its schools to promote and uphold the highest academic standards and it is the role of the Diocesan Schools Commission in each area to assist the Diocesan Bishop in achieving this aim in the context of a Catholic school

Shrewsbury Cathedral Live Stream 

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