Diocese of Hereford

Diocese of Hereford
Arms of the See of Hereford: Gules, three leopard's faces reversed jessant-de-lys or. These are the arms of Bishop Thomas de Cantilupe (d.1282)
Location
Ecclesiastical province	Canterbury
Archdeaconries	Hereford, Ludlow
Statistics
Parishes	347
Churches	409
Information
Cathedral	Hereford Cathedral
Current leadership
Bishop	Richard Frith, Bishop of Hereford
Suffragan	Alistair Magowan, Bishop of Ludlow
Archdeacons	Alistair Magowan, Bishop-Archdeacon of Ludlow Paddy Benson, Archdeacon of Hereford
Website
hereford.anglican.org

The Diocese of Hereford is a Church of England diocese based in Hereford, covering Herefordshire, southern Shropshire and a few parishes within Worcestershire in England, and a few parishes within Powys and Monmouthshire in Wales. The cathedral is Hereford Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Hereford. The diocese is one of the oldest in England (created in 676 and based on the minor sub-kingdom of the Magonsæte) and is part of the Province of Canterbury.

On 16 July 2014, it was announced that Richard Frith, Bishop suffragan of Hull, was to become the next Bishop of Hereford; his canonical election was confirmed on 17 October 2014 and he was installed on 22 November in Hereford Cathedral.

The diocesan Bishop of Hereford (Richard Frith) is assisted by the Bishop suffragan of Ludlow, Alistair Magowan (whose see was created in 1981.) The provincial episcopal visitor (for parishes in this diocese – among twelve others in the western part of the Province of Canterbury – who reject the ministry of priests who are women, since 1994) is Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet, who is licensed as an honorary assistant bishop of the diocese in order to facilitate his work there.