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SI-IREWSBURY'S, Cathedral of Our Lady Help of Christians and St. Peter of Alcantara will be 100 years old next week. To celebrate the centenary Archbishop Grimshaw of Birmingham. Bishop Restieaux of Plymouth. Bishop Ellis of Nottingham, Bishop Rodderham of Clifton and Bishop Petit of Menevia will attend Pontifical High Mass there on Tuesday morning.
Two years after the restoration of the Hierarchy in 1850 a recent convert. Charles Cholmondeley, gave a large site on which Bertram, 17th Earl of Shrewsbury, offered to build a cathedral.
The foundation stone of a 10,000 building was laid.Two years later, when the building was considerably advanced, a stratum of sand was discovered just below the surface. This meant the omission from the original plan of a 30011. tower and spire.
The Earl of Shrewsbury then agreed to meet the cost of a smaller church, and this was finished in 1856 at a cost of £4.000.
The first Bishop of Shrewsbury, consecrated in 1851, was Mgr. James Brown. His diocese then consisted of Shropshire. Cheshire and six counties of North Wales. He had 20,000 Catholics but only 33 priests.
Bishop Murphy. who became Bishop of Shrewsbury in 1949 after the death of Bishop Moriarty. now has a Catholic population of 143,700 with 76 parish churches, 32 chapels, 27 private chapels, seven houses of Regular priests and 27 convents.
Note : In 1676 there were only eight Catholics in the town of Shrewsbury. Now there are more than 2,500.
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