The Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist is a Roman Catholic cathedral

Cathedral

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 in Portsmouth

Portsmouth

Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...

, England

England

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. It is the mother church

Mother Church

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 of the Portsmouth Diocese

Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth is a Latin Rite Roman Catholic diocese in England. The episcopal see is the Portsmouth Cathedral and is headed by the Bishop of Portsmouth...

 and seat of the Bishop of Portsmouth

Bishop of Portsmouth (Catholic)

The Bishop of Portsmouth is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth in the Province of Southwark, England.The bishop's official residence is St...

, currently the Right Reverend Crispian Hollis

Crispian Hollis

Roger Francis Crispian Hollis is the Bishop of Portsmouth for the Catholic Church. His parents were Christopher Hollis , the author and parliamentarian, and Madeleine Hollis .-Family life:...

. It was dedicated on 10 August 1892.

The cathedral is one of two cathedral churches in the city, the other being the Church of England

Church of England

The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

 Cathedral of St Thomas of Canterbury

Portsmouth Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Portsmouth, commonly known as Portsmouth Cathedral, is the Church of England cathedral of the City of Portsmouth, England and is located in the heart of Old Portsmouth...

 which is located about one mile to the south.

Diocese

The diocese is within the Metropolitan Province of Southwark

Archdiocese of Southwark

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark is a Latin Rite Roman Catholic archdiocese in England. The Archepiscopal see is St. George's Cathedral, Southwark and is headed by the Archbishop of Southwark...

. It includes the whole of Hampshire

Hampshire

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, the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...

, and the Channel Islands

Channel Islands

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, and also parts of Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

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, Berkshire

Berkshire

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, and Dorset

Dorset

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, stretching from Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Abingdon, Oxfordshire

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, in the north to the island of Jersey

Jersey

Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...

 (near the French

France

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 coast) in the south.

External links

• Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth
• Official site of the Diocese of Portsmouth www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk
• The Diocese of Portsmouth at www.catholic-hierarchy.org

See also

• List of cathedrals in the United Kingdom