Anglican Diocese of Manchester
| Diocese of Manchester | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | York |
| Archdeaconries | Bolton, Manchester, Rochdale, Salford |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 292 |
| Churches | 353 |
| Information | |
| Cathedral | Manchester Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | David Walker, Bishop of Manchester |
| Suffragans |
Mark Davies, Bishop of Middleton Mark Ashcroft, Bishop of Bolton |
| Archdeacons | Cherry Vann, Archdeacon of Rochdale David Bailey, Archdeacon of Bolton David Sharples, Archdeacon of Salford Karen Lund, Archdeacon-designate of Manchester |
| Website | |
| manchester.anglican.org | |
The Diocese of Manchester is a Church of England diocese in the Province of York, England. Based in the city of Manchester, the diocese covers much of the county of Greater Manchester and small areas of the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire.
After passage of the Bishopric of Manchester Act 1847, the Diocese of Manchester was founded on 1 September 1847, having previously been part of the Diocese of Chester.
The diocese was founded in accordance with the Third Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, appointed to consider the state of the Established Church in England and Wales, printed in 1836. It recommended the formation of the Bishopric of Manchester, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1836 (6 and 7 William IV cap. 77) was passed that year whereby the King, by Order-in-Council was empowered to carry into effect the recommendations of the commissioners. It provided that the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor should be united on the next vacancy in either, and on that occurring the Bishop of Manchester should be created. The union of the sees never took place and, by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1847 (10 and 11 Vic. cap. 108) followed by an Order-in-Council, the bishopric was constituted.
The diocese originally covered the historic hundreds of Salford, Blackburn, Leyland and Amounderness and the Parish of Leigh, which lay in the hundred of West Derby. However, with the foundation of the Diocese of Blackburn in 1926, which took the three northern hundreds, Manchester was left with just the hundred of Salford and Leigh.The final boundary change to the diocese was by annexing Wythenshawe from the Diocese of Chester.
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