Archdeacon of Sunderland

Diocese of Durham
old map of the bishopric of Durham
Location
Ecclesiastical province	York
Archdeaconries	Auckland, Durham, Sunderland
Statistics
Parishes	249
Churches	292
Information
Cathedral	Durham Cathedral
Current leadership
Bishop	Paul Butler, Bishop of Durham
Suffragans	Mark Bryant, Bishop of Jarrow
Archdeacons	Ian Jagger, Archdeacon of Durham Stuart Bain, Archdeacon of Sunderland Nick Barker, Archdeacon of Auckland
Website
durham.anglican.org

Coordinates: 54°43′01″N 1°35′38″W / 54.717°N 1.594°W / 54.717; -1.594

The Diocese of Durham is a Church of England diocese, based in Durham, and covering the historic County Durham (and therefore including the southern part of Tyne and Wear, the boroughs of Darlington, Hartlepool and the area of north of the River Tees). It was created in AD 635 as the Diocese of Lindisfarne. The cathedral is Durham Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Durham who used to live at Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, and still has his office there. The diocese's administrative centre, the Diocesan Office, is located at Cuthbert House, Stonebridge just outside Durham City. This was opened in 2015.

The line of bishops of Durham stretches back to the 10th century, when Aldhun, Bishop of Lindisfarne (995–1018), transferred his see to Durham around 995. The diocese was founded, with its See at Lindisfarne, in 635; until the See was removed from there around 875 and translated to Chester-le-Street (Cuncacestre) in around 882.