Diocese of Gloucester

Coordinates: 51°52′01″N 2°14′49″W / 51.867°N 2.247°W / 51.867; -2.247

Diocese of Gloucester
Location
Ecclesiastical province Canterbury
Archdeaconries Cheltenham, Gloucester
Statistics
Parishes 323
Churches 396
Information
Cathedral Gloucester Cathedral
Bristol Cathedral (1836–1897)
Current leadership
Bishop Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester[1]
Suffragan Bishop of Tewkesbury (vacant)
Archdeacons Robert Springett, Archdeacon of Cheltenham
Jackie Searle, Archdeacon of Gloucester
Website
gloucester.anglican.org

The Diocese of Gloucester is a Church of England diocese based in Gloucester, covering the non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire. The cathedral is Gloucester Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Gloucester. It is part of the Province of Canterbury.

History

The diocese was founded during the English Reformation on 3 September 1541[2] from part of the Diocese of Hereford and the Diocese of Worcester. In 1542 the Diocese of Bristol was created to cover Bristol, but on 5 October 1836 it was merged back into the Gloucester diocese, which became the Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol[3] until Bristol became an independent diocese again on 9 July 1897,[4] whereupon the Gloucester diocese resumed the name Diocese of Gloucester.

The diocese has twinning links with the dioceses of Dornakal and Karnataka Central in the Church of South India, Västerås in Sweden, El Camino Real in California, USA, and Western Tanganyika in Tanzania. It is currently supporting the work of the Diocese of Western Tanganyika to build a new high school.

Organisation

The diocese is divided into two archdeaconries, Cheltenham, headed by the Archdeacon of Cheltenham, Robert Springett, and Gloucester, headed by the Archdeacon of Gloucester, Jackie Searle. The Archdeaconry of Cheltenham consists of the deaneries of Cheltenham, Cirencester, North Cotswolds, & Tewkesbury and Winchcombe, and the Archdeaconry of Gloucester consists of the deaneries of Forest South, Gloucester City, Severn Vale, Stroud, & Wotton.

Bishops

The diocesan Bishop of Gloucester, Rachel Treweek (the first female diocesan bishop in the Church of England), is assisted by the Bishop suffragan of Tewkesbury (which currently vacant see was created in 1938.) 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.

There are seven former bishops licensed as honorary assistant bishops in the diocese:

References

  1. Diocese of Gloucester — The Bishop of Gloucester Designate (Accessed 26 March 2015)
  2. Joyce M Horn, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857 8, pp. 35–37
  3. The London Gazette: no. 19426. pp. 1734–1738. 7 October 1836. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  4. The London Gazette: no. 26871. p. 3787. 9 July 1897. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
  5. "JRG Neale". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 30 November 2015. (subscription required)
  6. Firth, Rt Rev. Peter James. Who's Who 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  7. Harris, Rt Rev. Patrick Burnet. Who's Who 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  8. Jennings, Rt Rev. David Willfred Michael. Who's Who 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  9. Evens, Rt Rev. Robert John Scott. Who's Who 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  10. "AM Priddis". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 30 November 2015. (subscription required)
  11. "CJ Hill". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 30 November 2015. (subscription required)

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