The Roman Catholic Diocese of Clifton is a Roman Catholic diocese centred at the Cathedral Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Clifton, England. The diocese covers the City and County of Bristol and the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Wiltshire, an area of . Thus it stretches from Stow on the Wold in the north to Minehead and Watchet in the South. The most north-westerly parishes are in the Forest of Dean, while Marlborough near Swindon is one of the most easterly. The City of Bristol, of which Clifton is a suburb, is the largest centre of population within the Diocese; Swindon is the next biggest. Other well-known cities and towns include Bath, Wells, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Salisbury, Taunton and Weston-super-Mare. The Clifton Diocese makes up part of the Catholic Association Pilgrimage. The diocese was erected in 1850; from then until 1911 it was in the ecclesiastical province of Westminster, and has been in the province of Birmingham since then. Statistics The Diocese has 107 Parishes, or the equivalent. Many have chapels-of-ease or other Mass centres, adding a total of 99 chapels. The parishes are run by a mixture of Diocesan priests, and priests who belong to Religious Orders such as the Benedictines, Franciscans and others. Diocesan boundaries The diocese is divided into 13 deaneries (originally six), each of which contain a number of parishes: Bath (Dean: Canon Christopher Whitehead): Bath Our Lady and St Alphege; Bath St John; Bath St Mary; Combe Down; Peasedown St John; Stratton-on-the-Fosse. Bristol East (Dean: Fr Gregory Grant): Chipping Sodbury and Yate; Downend; Easton; Fishponds; Frenchay; Kingswood; Redfield. Bristol North West (Dean: Fr Eugene Campbell): Bishopston; Filton; Henbury; Lawrence Weston; Patchway; Shirehampton; Southmead; Thornbury; Westbury-on-Trym. Bristol South (Dean: Fr Michael Healy): Bristol City Centre; Chew Valley; Keynsham; Knowle; Knowle West; Whitchurch; Withywood. Cheltenham (Dean: Fr David Mills): Charlton Kings; Cheltenham St Gregory; Cheltenham St Thomas More; Chipping Campden; Kemerton; Stow-on-the-Wold; Tewkesbury; Winchcombe. Glastonbury (Dean: Fr Dominic Findlay-Wilson): Chard; Glastonbury; Shepton Mallet; Somerton; Wells; Wincanton; Yeovil. Gloucester (Dean: Fr Barnabas Page): Brockworth; Churchdown; Cinderford; Coleford; Gloucester; Matson; Newent; Tuffley. Salisbury (Dean: Fr Anthony Paris): Amesbury; Salisbury Most Holy Redeemer and St Osmund; Salisbury St Gregory and the English Martyrs; Tisbury. Stroud (Dean: Fr Gary Brassington): Cirencester; Dursley; Fairford; Nympsfield; Stonehouse; Stroud; Tetbury; Woodchester; Wotton-under-Edge. Swindon (Dean: Canon John Cunningham): Malmesbury; Marlborough; Royal Wootton Bassett; Swindon Holy Family; Swindon Holy Rood; Swindon St Mary; Swindon