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List of Church of England dioceses A map showing 43 of the Church of England dioceses (excluding Gibraltar) and to which province they belong.
This is a
list of Church of England Dioceses . A
diocese is an administrative territorial unit governed by a
bishop , of which there are currently 44 within the
Church of England . These cover all of
England , and also the
Isle of Man , the
Channel Islands , the
Isles of Scilly , and a small part of
Wales . The
Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe is also a part of the Church of England (rather than a separate
Anglican church such as the
Church in Wales ), and covers the whole of mainland
Europe ,
Morocco ,
Turkey and the territory of the former
Soviet Union .
The structure of diocese within the Church of England was initially inherited from the
Roman Catholic Church as part of the
Reformation . During the Reformation a number of new dioceses were founded. No new dioceses were then created until the middle of the 19th century, when dioceses were founded mainly in response to the growing population, especially in the northern
industrial cities.
The latest dioceses were created in 1927. The 44 dioceses are divided into two
Provinces , the
Province of Canterbury (with 30 dioceses) and the
Province of York (with 14 dioceses). The
archbishop s of
Canterbury and
York have pastoral oversight over the bishops within their province, along with certain other rights and responsibilities.
The table below gives the dioceses in alphabetical order, along with their geographic location, province, foundation date and the location of their
cathedral (see also
List of cathedrals in the United Kingdom ).
Diocese Province Territory Cathedral!Founded Bath and Wells Bishop of Bath and Wells )Canterbury Somerset Wells Cathedral 909 Birmingham Bishop of Birmingham )Canterbury West Midlands metropolitan county (except Coventry and Wolverhampton ), North Warwickshire Birmingham Cathedral 1906, from Worcester Blackburn Bishop of Blackburn )York Lancashire (except West Lancashire and part of Ribble Valley )Blackburn Cathedral 1926, from Manchester Bradford Bishop of Bradford )York Bradford , Craven , part of Ribble Valley Bradford Cathedral 1920, from Ripon Bristol Bishop of Bristol )Canterbury Bristol , South Gloucestershire , Swindon , part of North Wiltshire Bristol Cathedral 1542 Canterbury Archbishop of Canterbury )Canterbury Eastern Kent Canterbury Cathedral 597 Carlisle Bishop of Carlisle )York Cumbria Carlisle Cathedral 1133 Chelmsford Bishop of Chelmsford )Canterbury Essex (and London boroughs of Waltham Forest , Redbridge , Havering , Newham and Barking & Dagenham )Chelmsford Cathedral 1914, from St Albans Chester Bishop of Chester )York Cheshire (except North Warrington ), Wirral , part of Stockport Chester Cathedral 1541 Chichester Bishop of Chichester )Canterbury Sussex Chichester Cathedral 1075 Coventry Bishop of Coventry )Canterbury Coventry , Warwickshire (except North Warwickshire )Coventry Cathedral 1918, from Lichfield Derby Bishop of Derby )Canterbury Derbyshire Derby Cathedral 1927, from Southwell Durham Bishop of Durham )York County Durham (except Teesdale ), Tyne and Wear south of the River Tyne Durham Cathedral 995 Ely Bishop of Ely )Canterbury Cambridgeshire (except Peterborough ) and west NorfolkEly Cathedral 1109 Exeter Bishop of Exeter )Canterbury Devon Exeter Cathedral 1050 Gibraltar in Europe Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe )Canterbury Continental Europe , Morocco , former Soviet Union , Turkey Gibraltar Cathedral 1842 Gloucester Bishop of Gloucester )Canterbury Gloucestershire (except South Gloucestershire )Gloucester Cathedral 1541 Guildford Bishop of Guildford )Canterbury Surrey (except Tandridge ), part of East Hampshire Guildford Cathedral 1927, from Winchester Hereford Bishop of Hereford )Canterbury Herefordshire , South-Western Shropshire Hereford Cathedral 676 Leicester Bishop of Leicester )Canterbury Leicestershire Leicester Cathedral 1927, from Peterborough Lichfield Bishop of Lichfield )Canterbury Staffordshire , Wolverhampton , North-Eastern Shropshire Lichfield Cathedral 669 Lincoln Bishop of Lincoln )Canterbury Lincolnshire Lincoln Cathedral 1072 Liverpool Bishop of Liverpool )York Merseyside (except Wirral ), Warrington , West Lancashire Liverpool Cathedral 1880, from Chester London Bishop of London )Canterbury Middlesex St Paul's Cathedral 604 Manchester Bishop of Manchester )York Greater Manchester (except most of Stockport )Manchester Cathedral 1847, from Chester Newcastle Bishop of Newcastle )York Northumberland , Tyne and Wear north of the River Tyne Newcastle Cathedral 1882, from Durham Norwich Bishop of Norwich )Canterbury Norfolk Norwich Cathedral 1091 Oxford Bishop of Oxford )Canterbury Oxfordshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire (except Spelthorne )Oxford Cathedral 1542 Peterborough Bishop of Peterborough )Canterbury Peterborough , Northamptonshire , Rutland Peterborough Cathedral 1541 Portsmouth Bishop of Portsmouth )Canterbury South-Eastern Hampshire , the Isle of Wight Portsmouth Cathedral 1927, from Winchester Ripon and Leeds Bishop of Ripon and Leeds )York Leeds , Western North Yorkshire , Teesdale Ripon Cathedral 1836, from York Rochester Bishop of Rochester )Canterbury Western Kent Rochester Cathedral 604 St Albans Bishop of St Albans )Canterbury Hertfordshire (except part of Broxbourne ), Bedfordshire , part of Barnet St Albans Cathedral 1877, from Rochester St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich )Canterbury Suffolk Bury St Edmunds Cathedral 1914, from Ely and Norwich Salisbury Bishop of Salisbury )Canterbury Wiltshire (except Swindon and part of North Wiltshire ), Dorset Salisbury Cathedral 1078 Sheffield Bishop of Sheffield )York Sheffield , Rotherham , Doncaster Sheffield Cathedral 1914, from York Sodor and Man Bishop of Sodor and Man )York The Isle of Man Peel Cathedral 1154 Southwark Bishop of Southwark )Canterbury Greater London south of the River Thames , Tandridge Southwark Cathedral 1905, from Rochester Southwell and Nottingham Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham )York Nottinghamshire Southwell Minster 1884, from Lichfield/Lincoln Truro Bishop of Truro )Canterbury Cornwall Truro Cathedral 1876, from Exeter Wakefield Bishop of Wakefield )York Wakefield , Barnsley , Kirklees , Calderdale Wakefield Cathedral 1888, from Ripon Winchester Bishop of Winchester )Canterbury Northern and Western Hampshire , the Channel Islands Winchester Cathedral 662 Worcester Bishop of Worcester )Canterbury Worcestershire Worcester Cathedral 680 York Archbishop of York )York City of York , East Riding of Yorkshire , Hull , Eastern North Yorkshire York Minster 625
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