Diocese of Canterbury
|
Diocese of Canterbury Dioecesis Cantuariensis |
|
|---|---|
Coat of arms
|
|
Flag
|
|
| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | Canterbury |
| Archdeaconries | Canterbury, Ashford, Maidstone |
| Coordinates | 51°16′47″N 1°5′0″E / 51.27972°N 1.08333°ECoordinates: 51°16′47″N 1°5′0″E / 51.27972°N 1.08333°E |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 231 |
| Churches | 327 |
| Information | |
| Cathedral | Canterbury Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Suffragans |
Trevor Willmott, Bishop of Dover Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough (AEO) Jonathan Goodall, Bishop of Ebbsfleet (AEO) Rod Thomas, Bishop of Maidstone (AEO) |
| Archdeacons |
Jo Kelly-Moore, Archdeacon of Canterbury Philip Down, Archdeacon of Ashford Stephen Taylor, Archdeacon of Maidstone |
| Website | |
| www.canterburydiocese.org | |
The Diocese of Canterbury is a Church of England diocese covering eastern Kent which was founded by St. Augustine of Canterbury in 597. The diocese is centred on Canterbury Cathedral and is the oldest see of the Church of England.
For organisational purposes, the diocese is divided into three archdeaconries, containing a total of fifteen deaneries:
The diocesan bishop is the Archbishop of Canterbury, presently Justin Welby. However, because of his roles as metropolitan bishop of the Province of Canterbury, Primate of All England and figurehead of the worldwide Anglican Communion, the archbishop (whose primary residence is at Lambeth Palace in London) is often away from the diocese. Therefore, one of his suffragan bishops, the Bishop of Dover (Trevor Wilmott), is in many ways empowered to act almost as if he were the diocesan bishop.
There was, until 2009, another suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Maidstone, but it was decided in November 2010 that no further appointments would be made to that post. Two further suffragans whose sees are located in the diocese – Ebbsfleet and Richborough – are provincial episcopal visitors with a focus more wide-ranging than the local diocese. On 4 December 2014, it was announced that the see of Maidstone would be filled again, in order to provide a further provincial episcopal visitor for particular conservative evangelical members of the Church who take a minority view on "headship".
...
Wikipedia