Diocese of London
| Diocese of London | |
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| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | Canterbury |
| Archdeaconries | Charing Cross; Hackney; Hampstead; London; Middlesex; Northolt |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 413 |
| Churches | 484 |
| Information | |
| Cathedral | St Paul's |
| Co-cathedral | Westminster Abbey (1550–1556 only) |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Richard Chartres, Bishop of London |
| Suffragans |
Pete Broadbent, area Bishop of Willesden Adrian Newman, area Bishop of Stepney Jonathan Baker, Bishop of Fulham Graham Tomlin, area Bishop of Kensington Rob Wickham, area Bishop of Edmonton Ric Thorpe, Bishop of Islington |
| Archdeacons | Stephan Welch, Archdeacon of Middlesex; Luke Miller, Archdeacon of London; Duncan Green, Archdeacon of Northolt John Hawkins, Archdeacon of Hampstead Rosemary Lain-Priestley, Associate Archdeacon Liz Adekunle, Archdeacon of Hackney |
| Website | |
| london.anglican.org | |
The Diocese of London forms part of the Church of England's Province of Canterbury in England.
Historically the diocese covered a large area north of the Thames and bordered the dioceses of Norwich and Lincoln to the north and west. The present diocese covers 177 square miles (460 km2) and 17 London boroughs, covering most of Greater London north of the River Thames and west of the River Lea. This area covers nearly all of the historic county of Middlesex. It includes the City of London in which lies its cathedral, St Paul's, and also encompasses Spelthorne which was formerly in Middlesex but is now part of Surrey.
Essex formed part of the diocese until 1846 when the county became part of the Diocese of Rochester (and later changed again to the Diocese of St Albans and is now in the Diocese of Chelmsford).
Since the institution of the London area scheme (the first of its kind) in 1979, the diocese has been divided into five episcopal areas, each of which is the particular responsibility of one of the diocese's suffragan bishops. It is further divided into archdeaconries and deaneries, as shown below.
(area Bishop of Edmonton)
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