The Archdiocese of Cardiff (south east Wales) includes the adjacent English county of Herefordshire. As another commentator noted, the multiple brutal 20th century national boundary changes across Europe produced all sorts of anomalies.
One of my favourites is Alsace, which has migrated between France and Germany. The street names are dis…
The Archdiocese of Cardiff (south east Wales) includes the adjacent English county of Herefordshire. As another commentator noted, the multiple brutal 20th century national boundary changes across Europe produced all sorts of anomalies.
One of my favourites is Alsace, which has migrated between France and Germany. The street names are displayed in French and Alsatian German. It is in France for the time being. In 1905 the anti clerical French government nationalised Church property. But Alsace was in Germany at that time, so that appalling law has never been applied on that area.
Longer term history produces some really odd looking dioceses. My own diocese Portsmouth, in southern England, stretches from the south edge of Oxford to the Channel Islands, which are a few miles west of Normandy. The Channel Islands were once part of the Duchy of Normandy.... And then there was the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
The Archdiocese of Cardiff (south east Wales) includes the adjacent English county of Herefordshire. As another commentator noted, the multiple brutal 20th century national boundary changes across Europe produced all sorts of anomalies.
One of my favourites is Alsace, which has migrated between France and Germany. The street names are displayed in French and Alsatian German. It is in France for the time being. In 1905 the anti clerical French government nationalised Church property. But Alsace was in Germany at that time, so that appalling law has never been applied on that area.
Longer term history produces some really odd looking dioceses. My own diocese Portsmouth, in southern England, stretches from the south edge of Oxford to the Channel Islands, which are a few miles west of Normandy. The Channel Islands were once part of the Duchy of Normandy.... And then there was the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.