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

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

Our Bishops Remembered

When Leeds Cathedral was refurbished in 2006 one significant aspect of the scheme was the creation of a burial vault beneath the floor of the nave, which would be the final resting place of the Bishops of Leeds in the years to come. It was here that Bishop David...

Our Fathers of Faith: our history comes to life

In 2008 Fr Nicholas Hird, Parish Priest of Cleckheaton and Heckmondwike, published the first two volumes of his monumental biographical dictionary of the priests of the Diocese of Leeds. This work covered the years from 1878, when the Diocese was founded, up to 1914....