Diocese of Leicester

Diocese of Leicester
Diocese of Leicester
Location
Ecclesiastical province Canterbury
Archdeaconries Leicester, Loughborough
Statistics
Parishes 234
Churches 324
Information
Cathedral Leicester Cathedral, 680 to c.870 and 1927 to present
Current leadership
Bishop Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester
Suffragan Christopher Boyle, Assistant Bishop of Leicester[N 1]
Archdeacons Richard Atkinson, Archdeacon of Leicester
David Newman, Archdeacon of Loughborough
Website
leicester.anglican.org

The Diocese of Leicester is a Church of England diocese based in Leicester and including the current county of Leicestershire.[1] The cathedral is Leicester Cathedral, where the Bishop of Leicester has his seat.

The diocese is divided into two Archdeaconries: the Archdeaconry of Leicester, covering the east of the county, and the Archdeaconry of Loughborough, covering the west. The former is divided into the rural deaneries of: City of Leicester; Framland (Melton Mowbray); Gartree First and Second; and Goscote. The latter is divided into the rural deaneries of Akeley East, South and West; Guthlaxton; and Sparkenhoe East and West.

The Diocese owns a retreat house at Launde Abbey near East Norton.

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History

The area first had a bishopric in 680, and the Anglo-Saxon cathedral was probably located close to (if not on the site of) the present cathedral. The original diocese fell victim to the invasion by the Danes around 870 and after the establishment of the Danelaw in 886 the diocese's seat was moved to Oxfordshire and, taking over the existing Diocese of Lindine (created in 678), became the Diocese of Dorchester. From Dorchester, Oxfordshire the see was later moved to Lincoln in 1072 under King William I, the diocese then becoming the Diocese of Lincoln. King Henry VIII divided the larger dioceses at the time of the English Reformation and the Diocese of Lincoln was divided in three. Leicestershire was included in what became the new Diocese of Peterborough. In 1539 a new cathedral was being erected,[where?] but it was never completed and Peterborough was chosen as the seat of the new diocese and Peterborough Abbey the cathedral.

In the 19th century there were suffragan bishops of Leicester whilst the bishopric was still within the diocese of Peterborough. The modern diocese was founded in 1926 from the archdeaconries of Leicester and Loughborough and part of the archdeaconry of Northampton, all from the Diocese of Peterborough.[2]

See also

  • Category:Church of England churches in Leicestershire

Notes

  1. ^ The Assistant Bishop of Leicester is not technically or legally a suffragan bishop, but generally acts as one in every other way.

References

  1. ^ Rutland was included in Leicestershire for some years from 1974, but continued to form the Archdeaconry of Oakham in the Diocese of Peterborough rather than being part of the Diocese of Leicester
  2. ^ London Gazette: no. 33220. p. 7322. 12 November 1926. Retrieved 2008-04-27.

External links

Coordinates: 52°38′05″N 1°08′13″W / 52.6347°N 1.1370°W / 52.6347; -1.1370


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