Diocese of Guildford
| Diocese of Guildford | |
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| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | Canterbury |
| Archdeaconries | Dorking Surrey |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 168 |
| Churches | 217 |
| Information | |
| Cathedral | Guildford Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Andrew Watson, Bishop of Guildford |
| Suffragan | Jo Bailey Wells, Bishop of Dorking |
| Archdeacons | Stuart Beake, Archdeacon of Surrey Paul Bryer, Archdeacon of Dorking |
| Website | |
| cofeguildford.org.uk | |
The Diocese of Guildford is a Church of England diocese covering nine of the eleven districts in Surrey, much of north-east Hampshire and a parish in Greater London. The cathedral is Guildford Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Guildford. Of the two provinces of the church it falls within the Province of Canterbury.
The diocese was formed on 1 May 1927 from part of the Diocese of Winchester.
Of the eleven secular districts of Surrey, nine fall within the diocese however Spelthorne is part of the Diocese of London and Tandridge District is contained in the Diocese of Southwark.
A secular district of Hampshire and a small part of a second fall within the diocese: these are Rushmoor and Hart District respectively. Fleet, Church Crookham, Cove, Minley, Blackwater and Ewshot are the main settled parishes in Hart district not in the Diocese of Winchester, part of Rowledge is also in that district rather than Surrey. Chessington falls within the diocese in Greater London.
The diocesan Bishop of Guildford (Andrew Watson) is assisted by the Bishop suffragan of Dorking (Jo Bailey Wells). The suffragan see of Dorking was re-created in 1968, having briefly existed in the Diocese of Winchester from 1905 to 1909. The diocese usually operates an informal area scheme in which the diocesan bishop mostly oversees Surrey archdeaconry and the suffragan Dorking, dividing the episcopal workload between the western and eastern parts of the diocese respectively, and each to work with an archdeacon as well as the administrative staff. Alternative episcopal oversight (for parishes in the diocese which reject the ministry of priests who are women) is provided by the provincial episcopal visitor, Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough, who is licensed as an honorary assistant bishop of the diocese in order to facilitate his work there.
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