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The Dioceses in the order of their creation

Canterbury

Canterbury 597 Canterbury London 604 Canterbury Rochester 604 Canterbury York 625 York Winchester 662 Canterbury Lichfield 669 Canterbury Hereford 676 Canterbury Worcester 680 Canterbury Bath & Wells 909 Canterbury Durham 995 York Exeter 1050 Canterbury Lincoln 1072 Canterbury Chichester 1075 Canterbury Salisbury 1078 Canterbury Norwich 1091 (1070) Canterbury Ely 1109 Canterbury Carlisle 1133 York Sodor & Man 1154 York Chester 1541 York Gloucester 1541 Canterbury Peterborough 1541 Canterbury Bristol 1542 Canterbury Oxford 1542 Canterbury & Leeds* 1836 York Gibraltar in Europe 1842 Canterbury Manchester 1847 York 1876 Canterbury St Albans 1877 Canterbury Liverpool 1880 York

Newcastle 1882 York Southwell & Nottingham 1884 York Wakefield* 1888 York Southwark 1905 Canterbury Birmingham 1906 Canterbury Chelmsford 1914 Canterbury St Edmundsbury & Ipswich 1914 Canterbury Sheffield 1914 York Coventry 1918 Canterbury Bradford* 1920 York Blackburn 1926 York 1927 Canterbury Guildford 1927 Canterbury Leicester 1927 Canterbury Portsmouth 1927 Canterbury West & the Dales* 2014 Amalgamated Diocese

Diocese Province Territory Cathedral Founded

Bath and Wells Wells ( of Bath Canterbury Somerset 909 Cathedral and Wells)

West Midlands metropolitan Birmingham county (except Coventry, Birmingham 1906, from (Bishop of Canterbury Walsall and Wolverhampton), Cathedral Worcester Birmingham) North Warwickshire

Blackburn Lancashire (except West Blackburn 1926, from (Bishop of York Lancashire and part of Ribble Cathedral Manchester Blackburn) )

Bradford Bradford, , part of Ribble Bradford (Bishop of York 1920, from Ripon Valley Cathedral Bradford)

Bristol Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Bristol (Bishop of Canterbury 1542 Swindon, part of North Wiltshire Cathedral Bristol)

Canterbury Canterbury ( Eastern Kent 597 Cathedral Canterbury)

Carlisle Carlisle (Bishop of York Cumbria 1133 Cathedral Carlisle)

Essex (traditional borders,

including London boroughs of

Chelmsford Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Chelmsford 1914, from St (Bishop of Canterbury Havering, Newham and Barking Cathedral Albans Chelmsford) & Dagenham)

Chester Cheshire (except North Chester (Bishop of York Warrington), Wirral, part of 1541 Cathedral Chester) Stockport

Chichester Chichester (Bishop of Canterbury Sussex 1075 Cathedral Chichester)

Coventry Coventry, Warwickshire (except Coventry 1918, from (Bishop of Canterbury North Warwickshire) Cathedral Worcester Coventry)

Derby Derby 1927, from Canterbury () Cathedral Southwell

Durham (except Durham (Bishop of York ), Tyne and Wear south 995 Cathedral Durham) of the River Tyne

Cambridgeshire (except the Soke Ely Canterbury of Peterborough) and west 1109 () Norfolk

Exeter Exeter Canterbury 1050 () Cathedral

Gibraltar in Europe Continental Europe, Morocco, Gibraltar (Bishop of Canterbury 1842 former Soviet Union, Turkey Cathedral Gibraltar in Europe)

Gloucester

(Bishop of Gloucestershire (except South Gloucester Gloucester) Canterbury 1541 Gloucestershire) Cathedral

Guildford Surrey (except Tandridge), part Guildford 1927, from (Bishop of Canterbury of East Hampshire Cathedral Winchester Guildford)

Hereford Herefordshire, South-Western Hereford (Bishop of Canterbury 676 Shropshire Cathedral Hereford)

Leicester Leicester 1927, from (Bishop of Canterbury Leicestershire Cathedral Peterborough Leicester)

Lichfield Staffordshire, Walsall, Lichfield (Bishop of Canterbury Wolverhampton, North-Eastern 669 Cathedral Lichfield) Shropshire

Lincoln Lincoln (Bishop of Canterbury Lincolnshire 1072 Cathedral Lincoln)

Liverpool Merseyside (except Wirral), Liverpool (Bishop of York 1880, from Chester Warrington, West Lancashire Cathedral Liverpool)

London St Paul's (Bishop of Canterbury Middlesex 604 Cathedral London)

Manchester Greater Manchester (except most Manchester (Bishop of York 1847, from Chester of Stockport) Cathedral Manchester)

Newcastle (Bishop of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Newcastle Newcastle) York 1882, from Durham north of the River Tyne Cathedral

Norwich 1091 (from Elmham Norwich (Bishop of Canterbury Norfolk (673) via Thetford Cathedral Norwich) (1070))

Oxford Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxford (Bishop of Canterbury 1542 Berkshire (except Spelthorne) Cathedral Oxford)

Peterborough Soke of Peterborough, Peterborough (Bishop of Canterbury 1541 Northamptonshire, Rutland Cathedral Peterborough)

Portsmouth South-Eastern Hampshire, the Portsmouth 1927, from (Bishop of Canterbury Isle of Wight Cathedral Winchester Portsmouth)

Ripon and Leeds Leeds, Western , Ripon ( York 1836, from York Teesdale Cathedral and Leeds)

Rochester Rochester (Bishop of Canterbury Western Kent 604 Cathedral Rochester)

St Albans Hertfordshire (except part of St Albans 1877, from (Bishop of St Canterbury Broxbourne), Bedfordshire, part Cathedral Rochester Albans) of Barnet

St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Bury St 1914, from Ely and (Bishop of St Canterbury Suffolk Edmunds Norwich Edmundsbury and Cathedral Ipswich)

Salisbury Wiltshire (except Swindon and Salisbury (Bishop of Canterbury 1078 part of North Wiltshire), Dorset Cathedral Salisbury)

Sheffield Sheffield (Bishop of York Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster 1914, from York Cathedral Sheffield)

Sodor and Man (Bishop of Sodor York The 1154 and Man)

Southwark Greater London south of the Southwark 1905, from (Bishop of Canterbury River Thames, Tandridge Cathedral Rochester Southwark)

Southwell and Nottingham Southwell 1884, from (Bishop of York Nottinghamshire Minster Lichfield/Lincoln Southwell and Nottingham)

Truro Truro Canterbury Cornwall 1876, from Exeter () Cathedral

Wakefield Wakefield, Barnsley, Kirklees, Wakefield (Bishop of York 1888, from Ripon Calderdale Cathedral Wakefield)

Winchester Northern and Western Winchester (Bishop of Canterbury 662 Hampshire, the Channel Islands Cathedral Winchester)

Worcester Worcester (Bishop of Canterbury Worcestershire 680 Cathedral Worcester)

York City of York, East Riding of ( Yorkshire, Hull, Eastern North 625 York) Yorkshire