Pastoral Areas
Following a long period of consultation, the Diocese's new Pastoral Areas were launched at Pentecost 2006, with the aim to convert the Pastoral Areas into Parishes, so in the end of this, there will be 24 parishes in total in this diocese.
The new Pastoral Areas with their respective parishes are:
- Portsmouth: Portsmouth Cathedral – Corpus Christi with St Joseph – Our Lady & St Swithun – St Colman with St Paul
- Thames Isis: Abingdon – Didcot – East Hendred – North Hinksey – Wallingford
- West Berkshire: Newbury St Francis de Sales – Newbury St Joseph – Thatcham – Woolhampton
- Central and West Reading: English Martyrs – St James & St William – St Joseph
- Loddon Valley: Reading: Christ the King – Our Lady of Peace & Blessed Dominic Barberi – Twyford – Woodley
- Great Park: Ascot – Maidenhead St Edmund Campion – Maidenhead St Joseph – Windsor
- South Berkshire: Bracknell: St Joseph and St Margaret Clitherow – Crowthorne & Sandhurst – Wokingham
- North East Hampshire: Aldershot – Church Crookham – Farnborough Our Lady Help of Christians – Farnborough Our Lady & St Dominic – Fleet – Hartley Wintney – Yateley
- North West Hampshire: Andover & Whitchurch – Basingstoke Holy Ghost – Basingstoke St Joseph – Hook – Tadley – Whitchurch
- Alton-Petersfield: Alton – Bordon – Grayshott – Liphook – Petersfield
- Hampshire Downs: Hampshire Downs parish
- Three Rivers: Bishop’s Waltham – Chandlers Ford – Eastleigh – Romsey
- Havant: Havant – Hayling Island – Horndean – Leigh Park – Waterlooville
- North Downs: Buckland & Faringdon – Lambourn & Hungerford – Wantage
- Solent: Fareham - Portchester – Gosport – Lee-on-the-Solent with Stubbington – Park Gate
- Southampton East: Hedge End – Netley – Southampton: Christ the King & St Colman – Immaculate Conception – St Patrick
- Southampton Central and West: Holy Family – St Boniface – St Joseph & St Edmund – St Vincent de Paul
- New Forest East: Totton – Waterside - Lyndhurst
- New Forest: Brockenhurst – Lymington – Milford on Sea – New Milton
- Avon Stour: Bournemouth Our Lady Queen of Peace & Blessed Margaret Pole – St Thomas More – Christchurch – Fordingbridge – Highcliffe – Ringwood
- Bournemouth: Annunciation & St Edmund Campion – Corpus Christi – Our Lady Immaculate – Sacred Heart
- Isle of Wight: Cowes – East Cowes – Newport – Ryde – South Wight – Totland Bay
- Bailiwick of Guernsey: Alderney – Guernsey
- Jersey
In a revision of these plans in was announced in 2012 that all 7 parishes in Reading, including St. Annes in Caversham (across the river in the Diocese of Birmingham) would become a single pastoral area.
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[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
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