The Diocese of Chester is a Church of England diocese in the Province of York covering the pre-1974 county of Cheshire and therefore including the Wirral...
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or parts of counties: Chester (covering Cheshire and south Lancashire), Coventry, Derby, Salop and Stafford. In 1541 the Diocese of Chester was created...
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The Bishop of Chester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chester in the Province of York. The diocese extends across most of the historic...
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Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the England-Wales border. With a built-up area population...
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Ian Bishop (bishop) (category Alumni of the University of Portsmouth)
Bishop of Thetford, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England's Diocese of Norwich. He was Archdeacon of Macclesfield in the Diocese of Chester from 2011...
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Libby Lane (category Bishops of Stockport)
Stockport, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Chester. She was the first woman to be appointed as a bishop by the Church of England, after its general synod...
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Joe Kennedy (bishop) (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
Principal of the College of the Resurrection from 2008 to 2011. He then served as vicar of St Saviour's Church, Oxton in the Diocese of Chester until his...
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in Auckland Castle. The diocese is the successor to the diocese of Lindisfarne, founded in 635, which moved its seat to Chester-le-Street in 882 and subsequently...
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seat at Chester, 1075–1102 for new Diocese of Chester, see above Old Diocese of Coventry; seat at Coventry, 1102–1228 (co-cathedral at Chester 1102–?)...
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Chester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral and the mother church of the Diocese of Chester. It is located in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England...
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Chester or the diocese of Liverpool. Since the mid nineteenth century, Chester diocese has been divided into two archdeaconries, the Chester Archdeaconry...
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Thomas Wallasey". Bishop of Beverley. Retrieved 26 December 2020. "Pairsh Fact Sheet - St Thomas the Apostle" (PDF). Diocese of Chester. 10 September 2020....
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c. 108), the Diocese of Manchester was founded on 1 September 1847, having previously been part of the Diocese of Chester. The diocese was founded in...
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Cheshire (redirect from County of Chester)
Chester Diocese (Church of England). Archived 31 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine Official website. Accessed on 30 September 2007. Diocese of Shrewsbury...
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Verena Breed (category Proposed deletion as of 4 September 2024)
who has been Archdeacon of Barnstaple since 2021. Prior to her appointment she served in the Diocese of Chester and the Diocese of Oxford. She is originally...
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Mark Tanner (category Bishops of Chester)
2020, he has been the Bishop of Chester; he previously served as Bishop of Berwick, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Newcastle since his 2016 consecration...
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The diocese was created in 1133 by Henry I out of part of the Diocese of Durham. It was extended in 1856 taking over part of the Diocese of Chester. The...
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diocese of Chester in 1541. The diocese of Liverpool was established on 9 April 1880. The diocese's House of Bishops comprises the diocesan Bishop of...
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almost the entirety of these, as well as the Furness and Cartmel areas of Lancashire, in 1847, from part of the Diocese of Chester, although this did not...
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Archdeacon of Chester is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the diocese of Chester. The area in which she, or he, has statutory duties is the Archdeaconry of Chester...
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Sam Corley (category Bishops of Stockport)
been the Bishop of Stockport, one of two suffragan bishops in the Church of England Diocese of Chester. He previously served as Rector of Leeds Minster...
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The Dean of Chester is based at Chester Cathedral in the Diocese of Chester and is the head of the Chapter at the cathedral. 'Deans of Chester', Fasti...
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brief space of Queen Mary I's reign (1553–1558) may be added the Diocese of Chester, founded by Henry VIII, but subsequently recognised by the Pope. Until...
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Keith Sinclair (bishop) (category 20th-century Church of England bishops)
2021, he served as the Bishop of Birkenhead, one of two suffragan bishops in the Church of England Diocese of Chester. Sinclair was born on 3 December...
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of Chester Flag of the Diocese of Derby Flag of the Diocese of Ely Flag of the Diocese of Exeter Flag of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe Flag of the...
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remains an active Church of England parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Chester. Historian Alec Clifton-Taylor...
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David Chesters CBE (born 26 August 1937) was the Bishop of Blackburn from 1989 to 2003. Chesters is the son of Herbert and Catherine Chesters, of Huddersfield...
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Rob Munro (bishop) (category Alumni of the University of Bristol)
chairman of the House of Clergy in the Diocese of Chester; an elected member of the General Synod of the Church of England from 2005 to 2022; a member of the...
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T. H. E. C. Espin (category Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society)
was Chancellor of the Diocese of Chester and his mother was Elizabeth (née Jessop). He became interested in astronomy by the appearance of "Coggia's Comet"...
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historically part of the diocese of York. It became part of the newly created diocese of Chester in 1541, and part of the diocese of Manchester when it...
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