HC Deb 31 July 1903 vol 126 c1073
MR. HUMPHREYS-OWEN

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is approximately the present population of the diocese of Worcester; and what population it is proposed in the Bishoprics of Southwark and Birmingham Bill to assign to the bishopric of Birmingham.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers Douglas.) According to the Census Returns for 1901 the population of the diocese of Worcester is 1,398,240. The population of the area proposed to be formed into the new diocese of Birmingham is about 850,000. This number includes about 65,000 persons now in the diocese of Lichfield.