List of Church of England dioceses: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

A list of Church of England Dioceses. The Church has two provinces, Canterbury, and York - these are shown as C and Y.

Prov. Diocese Territory Cathedral Founded
C Bath and Wells (Bishop) Somerset Wells Cathedral
C Birmingham (Bishop) West Midlands metropolitan county (except Coventry and Wolverhampton), North Warwickshire Birmingham Cathedral 1906, from Worcester
Y Blackburn (Bishop) Lancashire (except West Lancashire and part of Ribble Valley) Blackburn Cathedral 1926, from Manchester
Y Bradford (Bishop) Bradford, Craven, part of Ribble Valley Bradford Cathedral 1920, from Ripon
C Bristol (Bishop) Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, part of North Wiltshire Bristol Cathedral
C Canterbury (Archbishop) Eastern Kent Canterbury Cathedral
Y Carlisle (Bishop) Cumbria Carlisle Cathedral
C Chelmsford (Bishop) Essex, London boroughs formerly within Essex Chelmsford Cathedral 1914, from St Albans
Y Chester (Bishop) Cheshire (except Warrington), Wirral, part of Stockport Chester Cathedral
C Chichester (Bishop) Sussex Chichester Cathedral
C Coventry (Bishop) Coventry, Warwickshire (except North Warwickshire) Coventry Cathedral 1918, from Lichfield
C Derby (Bishop) Derbyshire Derby Cathedral 1927, from Southwell
Y Durham (Bishop) County Durham (except Teesdale), Tyne and Wear south of the River Tyne Durham Cathedral
C Ely (Bishop) Cambridgeshire (except Peterborough) Ely Cathedral
C Exeter (Bishop) Devon Exeter Cathedral
C Gibraltar (Bishop) Continental Europe Gibraltar Cathedral
C Gloucester (Bishop) Gloucestershire (except South Gloucestershire) Gloucester Cathedral
C Guildford (Bishop) Surrey (except Tandridge), part of East Hampshire Guildford Cathedral 1927, from Winchester
C Hereford (Bishop) Herefordshire, South-Western Shropshire Hereford Cathedral
C Leicester (Bishop) Leicestershire Leicester Cathedral 1927, from Peterborough
C Lichfield (Bishop) Staffordshire, Wolverhampton, North-Eastern Shropshire Lichfield Cathedral
C Lincoln (Bishop) Lincolnshire Lincoln Cathedral
Y Liverpool (Bishop) Merseyside (except Wirral), Warrington, West Lancashire Liverpool Cathedral 1880, from Chester
C London (Bishop) Middlesex St Paul's Cathedral
Y Manchester (Bishop) Greater Manchester (except part of Stockport) Manchester Cathedral 1847, from Chester
Y Newcastle (Bishop) Northumberland, Tyne and Wear north of the River Tyne Newcastle Cathedral 1882, from Durham
C Norwich (Bishop) Norfolk Norwich Cathedral
C Oxford (Bishop) Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire (except Spelthorne) Oxford Cathedral
C Peterborough (Bishop) Peterborough, Northamptonshire, Rutland Peterborough Cathedral
C Portsmouth (Bishop) South-Eastern Hampshire, the Isle of Wight Portsmouth Cathedral 1927, from Winchester
Y Ripon and Leeds (Bishop) Leeds, Western North Yorkshire, Teesdale Ripon Cathedral
C Rochester (Bishop) Western Kent Rochester Cathedral
C St Albans (Bishop) Hertfordshire (except part of Broxbourne), Bedfordshire, part of Barnet St Albans Cathedral 1877, from Rochester
C St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bishop) Suffolk Bury St Edmunds Cathedral 1914, from Ely and Norwich
C Salisbury (Bishop) Wiltshire (except Swindon and part of North Wiltshire), Dorset Salisbury Cathedral
Y Sheffield (Bishop) Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster Sheffield Cathedral 1914, from York
Y Sodor and Man The Isle of Man Peel Cathedral
C Southwark (Bishop) Greater London south of the River Thames, Tandridge Southwark Cathedral 1905, from Rochester
Y Southwell (Bishop) Nottinghamshire Southwell Minster 1884, from various
C Truro (Bishop) Cornwall Truro Cathedral
Y Wakefield (Bishop) Wakefield, Barnsley, Kirklees, Calderdale Wakefield Cathedral 1888, from Ripon
C Winchester (Bishop) Northern and Western Hampshire Winchester Cathedral
C Worcester (Bishop) Worcestershire Worcester Cathedral
Y York (Archbishop) City of York, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull, Eastern North Yorkshire York Minster

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