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Coventry Abbey

Coventry Cathedral
Cathedral Church of St Michael
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Coventry Cathedral is located in West Midlands county
Coventry Cathedral
Coventry Cathedral
Shown within West Midlands
Coordinates: 52°24′30″N 1°30′25″W / 52.408333°N 1.506944°W / 52.408333; -1.506944
Location Coventry city centre, West Midlands
Country United Kingdom
Denomination Church of England
Website www.coventrycathedral.org.uk
History
Consecrated 1962
Architecture
Previous cathedrals 2
Architect(s) Basil Spence
Style Regional modern
Years built 1956–1962
Administration
Diocese Coventry (since 1095–1102; 1918–)
Province Canterbury
Clergy
Bishop(s) Christopher Cocksworth
Dean John Witcombe
Precentor David Stone, Canon Precentor
Canon(s) Sarah Hills, Canon for Reconciliation
Kathryn Fleming, Canon Pastor

The Cathedral Church of St Michael, commonly known as Coventry Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry, in Coventry, West Midlands, England. The current (9th) bishop is Christopher Cocksworth and the current Dean is John Witcombe.

The city has had three cathedrals. The first was St Mary's, a monastic building, of which only a few ruins remain. The second was St Michael's, a 14th-century Gothic church later designated cathedral, that remains a ruined shell after its bombing during the Second World War. The third is the new St Michael's Cathedral, built after the destruction of the former.

The first cathedral in Coventry was St Mary's Priory and Cathedral, 1095 to 1102, when Robert de Limesey moved the bishop's see from Lichfield to Coventry, until 1539 when it fell victim to King Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. Prior to 1095, it had been a small Benedictine monastery (endowed by Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lady Godiva in 1043), Shortly after 1095 rebuilding began and by the middle of the 13th century it was a cathedral of 142 yards in length and included many large outbuildings. Leofric was probably buried within the original Saxon church in Coventry. However, records suggest that Godiva was buried at Evesham Abbey, alongside her father confessor, Prior Aefic.


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