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Archdeacon of Hertford

Diocese of Saint Albans
Diocese of St Albans arms.svg
Location
Ecclesiastical province Canterbury
Archdeaconries Bedford, Hertford, St Albans
Statistics
Parishes 335
Churches 411
Information
Cathedral St Albans Cathedral
Current leadership
Bishop Alan Smith, Bishop of St Albans
Suffragans Richard Atkinson, Bishop of Bedford
Michael Beasley, Bishop of Hertford
Archdeacons Paul Hughes, Archdeacon of Bedford
Jonathan Smith, Archdeacon of St Albans
Janet Mackenzie, Archdeacon of Hertford
Website
stalbans.anglican.org

Coordinates: 51°45′07″N 0°20′20″W / 51.752°N 0.339°W / 51.752; -0.339

The Diocese of St Albans forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England and is part of the wider Church of England, in turn part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

The diocese is home to more than 1.6 million people and comprises the historic Counties of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, or in terms of local government areas, Bedfordshire, Luton, Hertfordshire and parts of the London Borough of Barnet. It therefore ranges from small rural communities in villages and hamlets to major urban centres like Luton, Bedford, Watford and Hemel Hempstead, and includes suburban areas on London's outer reaches.

The new diocese was founded relatively recently by an Order in Council on 30 April 1877, implementing the Bishopric of St Albans Act 1875.

The diocese was established from parts of the large Diocese of Rochester, extending the new bishop's jurisdiction over more than 600 parishes in the two counties of Essex and Hertfordshire.


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