Editing Stoke-on-Trent (section)

==Religion==

[[File:Bourneh.jpg|left|thumb|Hugh Bourne, founder of Primitive Methodism]]

Stoke-on-Trent does not have a cathedral. The city's main, [[Church of England]], civic church, is [[Stoke Minster]]. The city is within the [[Church of England|Anglican]] [[Diocese of Lichfield]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lichfield.anglican.org/ourpeople/ |title=Our people |publisher=Diocese of Lichfield |access-date=2 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205191157/http://www.lichfield.anglican.org/ourpeople/ |archive-date=5 December 2013  }}</ref> The city is part of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Archdiocese of Birmingham]] and the immediate area has six [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] parishes. They are dedicated to: the [[Sacred Heart|Sacred Heart of Jesus]], [[Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter in Chains Church, Stoke-on-Trent|Our Lady of the Angels]], [[Saint George]], [[Pope Gregory I|Saint Gregory the Great]], [[Maria Goretti|Saint Maria Goretti]] and [[Thérèse of Lisieux|Saint Teresa]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/parish-directory/?wpv_view_count=1&wpv_post_search=stoke+on+trent&wpv_filter_submit=Apply |title=Parish Directory |publisher=Archdiocese of Birmingham |access-date=2 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923190817/http://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/parish-directory/?wpv_view_count=1&wpv_post_search=stoke+on+trent&wpv_filter_submit=Apply |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Primitive Methodism]] was founded by [[Hugh Bourne]], a native of Stoke-on-Trent, at a public gathering in the nearby village of [[Mow Cop]]. He originally followed the [[John Wesley|Wesleyan]] form of [[Methodism]], but in 1801 he reformed the Methodist service by conducting it outside. He founded the first chapel in Tunstall with his brother in 1811.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/local_heroes/a_f/bourne.shtml |title=Bringing in the sheep – Hugh Bourne, the religious reformer from Stoke |year=2002 |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |work=BBC Stoke & Staffordshire |first=Zoe |last=Sailsman |access-date=20 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106114801/http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/local_heroes/a_f/bourne.shtml |archive-date=6 January 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> He promoted [[Sunday school]]s as a method of improving children's education, advocated the equal treatment of women and men, and was involved in the [[temperance movement in England|temperance movement]]. It was from the Primitive Methodists that many early trade unions found their early leaders.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/local_heroes/a_f/bourne2.shtml |title=Hugh Bourne, the religious reformer who also promoted social change |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |work=BBC Stoke & Staffordshire |first=Robert |last=Higginson |access-date=20 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106114806/http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/local_heroes/a_f/bourne2.shtml |archive-date=6 January 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> Also of note is [[John Lightfoot]], a 17th-century churchman and [[rabbi]]nical scholar.

The city's first purpose-built mosque was completed in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://islamiccentre-sot.com/ |title=The Islamic Centre, Stoke-on-Trent |access-date=23 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202105532/http://islamiccentre-sot.com/ |archive-date=2 February 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The city's only synagogue closed in 2006 and was replaced with a smaller one in nearby [[Newcastle-under-Lyme]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/04/19/local_tv_archive_faith_hanley_synagogue_move_0406_feature.shtml |title=BBC – Stoke & Staffordshire – Faith – Birch Terrace synagogue deconsecration ceremony |access-date=23 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226042334/http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/04/19/local_tv_archive_faith_hanley_synagogue_move_0406_feature.shtml |archive-date=26 February 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>