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List of Church of England dioceses
This page is a list of Church of England Dioceses , along with their geographic location and the foundation dates of those founded in the modern era, i.e. since the reign of Henry VIII. The dioceses fall into two provinces along geographic lines: Canterbury , and Province of York — these are shown in the table as C and Y.
Prov.
Diocese
Territory
Cathedral
Founded
C
Bath and Wells (Bishop )
Somerset
Wells Cathedral
C
Birmingham (Bishop )
West Midlands metropolitan county (except Coventry and Wolverhampton ), North Warwickshire
Birmingham Cathedral
1906, from Worcester
Y
Blackburn (Bishop )
Lancashire (except West Lancashire and part of Ribble Valley )
Blackburn Cathedral
1926, from Manchester
Y
Bradford (Bishop )
Bradford , Craven , part of Ribble Valley
Bradford Cathedral
1920, from Ripon
C
Bristol (Bishop )
Bristol , South Gloucestershire , Swindon , part of North Wiltshire
Bristol Cathedral
C
Canterbury (Archbishop )
Eastern Kent
Canterbury Cathedral
Y
Carlisle (Bishop )
Cumbria
Carlisle Cathedral
C
Chelmsford (Bishop )
Essex Chelmsford Cathedral
1914, from St Albans
Y
Chester (Bishop )
Cheshire (except Warrington ), Wirral , part of Stockport
Chester Cathedral
C
Chichester (Bishop )
Sussex Chichester Cathedral
C
Coventry (Bishop )
Coventry , Warwickshire (except North Warwickshire )
Coventry Cathedral
1918, from Lichfield
C
Derby (Bishop )
Derbyshire
Derby Cathedral
1927, from Southwell
Y
Durham (Bishop )
County Durham (except Teesdale ), Tyne and Wear south of the River Tyne
Durham Cathedral
C
Ely (Bishop )
Cambridgeshire (except Peterborough )
Ely Cathedral
C
Exeter (Bishop )
Devon
Exeter Cathedral
C
Gibraltar in Europe (Bishop )
Continental Europe , Morocco , Russia
Gibraltar Cathedral
C
Gloucester (Bishop )
Gloucestershire (except South Gloucestershire )
Gloucester Cathedral
C
Guildford (Bishop )
Surrey (except Tandridge ), part of East Hampshire
Guildford Cathedral
1927, from Winchester
C
Hereford (Bishop )
Herefordshire , South-Western Shropshire
Hereford Cathedral
C
Leicester (Bishop )
Leicestershire
Leicester Cathedral
1927, from Peterborough
C
Lichfield (Bishop )
Staffordshire , Wolverhampton , North-Eastern Shropshire
Lichfield Cathedral
C
Lincoln (Bishop )
Lincolnshire
Lincoln Cathedral
Y
Liverpool (Bishop )
Merseyside (except Wirral ), Warrington , West Lancashire
Liverpool Cathedral
1880, from Chester
C
London (Bishop )
Middlesex St Paul's Cathedral
Y
Manchester (Bishop )
Greater Manchester (except part of Stockport )
Manchester Cathedral
1847, from Chester
Y
Newcastle (Bishop )
Northumberland , Tyne and Wear north of the River Tyne
Newcastle Cathedral
1882, from Durham
C
Norwich (Bishop )
Norfolk
Norwich Cathedral
C
Oxford (Bishop )
Oxfordshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire (except Spelthorne )
Oxford Cathedral
C
Peterborough (Bishop )
Peterborough , Northamptonshire , Rutland
Peterborough Cathedral
C
Portsmouth (Bishop )
South-Eastern Hampshire , the Isle of Wight
Portsmouth Cathedral
1927, from Winchester
Y
Ripon and Leeds (Bishop )
Leeds , Western North Yorkshire , Teesdale
Ripon Cathedral
1836, from York
C
Rochester (Bishop )
Western Kent
Rochester Cathedral
C
St Albans (Bishop )
Hertfordshire (except part of Broxbourne ), Bedfordshire , part of Barnet
St Albans Cathedral
1877, from London
C
St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bishop )
Suffolk
Bury St Edmunds Cathedral
1914, from Ely and Norwich
C
Salisbury (Bishop )
Wiltshire (except Swindon and part of North Wiltshire ), Dorset
Salisbury Cathedral
Y
Sheffield (Bishop )
Sheffield , Rotherham , Doncaster
Sheffield Cathedral
1914, from York
Y
Sodor and Man (Bishop )
The Isle of Man
Peel Cathedral
C
Southwark (Bishop )
Greater London south of the River Thames , Tandridge
Southwark Cathedral
1905, from Rochester
Y
Southwell (Bishop )
Nottinghamshire
Southwell Minster
1884, from York
C
Truro (Bishop )
Cornwall
Truro Cathedral
1876, from Exeter
Y
Wakefield (Bishop )
Wakefield , Barnsley , Kirklees , Calderdale
Wakefield Cathedral
1888, from Ripon
C
Winchester (Bishop )
Northern and Western Hampshire , the Channel Islands
Winchester Cathedral
C
Worcester (Bishop )
Worcestershire
Worcester Cathedral
Y
York (Archbishop )
City of York , East Riding of Yorkshire , Hull , Eastern North Yorkshire
Province of York Minster
See also
