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• The Diocese of Sheffield was founded in 1914.
• It comprises of Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, except for a few parishes in the south east (Diocese of Southwell), an area of north Lincolnshire, an area of south eastern Barnsley, a small area of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
• The population of the Diocese is over 1 million people.
• It comprises an area of 576 square miles.
• It has over 200 churches.
• The Diocese has overseas links with Argentina and Hattingen Witten (Germany)