The Catholic Church across Yorkshire's historic West Riding since 1878

The Catholic Church across Yorkshire's historic West Riding since 1878

Ripon and Harrogate Primaries’ Joint Palm Sunday Concert

On 10 April, the afternoon of Palm Sunday, the newly-refurbished St Wilfrid’s Catholic Church in Ripon was the venue for a concert featuring members of two brand new choirs from our Catholic primary schools in Ripon and Harrogate. St Wilfrid’s Catholic...

Book now for the 2022 Trinity Conference!

How does Digital Media impact our young people’s mental health, safeguarding, privacy, character, discipleship, mission and much more? Trinity Conference: A Catholic Response to the Digital Age  (9-10 June 2022) will provide research and practitioner-led input...

Holy Week and Easter at the Cathedral

For the first time since 2019 the Holy Week and Easter ceremonies this year are being celebrated at the Cathedral free of Covid-19 restrictions. Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord began with the blessing of the palms by Bishop Marcus in Victoria Gardens before a...

Statement from the Bishop of Leeds

Today, Fr Patrick Smythe, a retired priest of the Diocese, was convicted, following a trial at Leeds Crown Court, of seven counts of sexual touching of minors occurring in the late 1970s and early 1980s. As the bishop and shepherd of the Diocese of Leeds, I wish to...