Diocese of Gloucester
Coordinates: 51°52′01″N 2°14′49″W / 51.867°N 2.247°W
| Diocese of Gloucester | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | Canterbury |
| Archdeaconries | Cheltenham, Gloucester |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 323 |
| Churches | 396 |
| Information | |
| Cathedral | Gloucester Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Michael Perham, Bishop of Gloucester |
| Suffragan | John Went, Bishop of Tewkesbury |
| Archdeacons | Geoffrey Sidaway, Archdeacon of Gloucester Robert Springett, Archdeacon of Cheltenham |
| Website | |
| glosdioc.org.uk | |
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.
The diocese was founded during the English Reformation in 1541 from part of the Diocese of Hereford and the Diocese of Worcester. In 1542 the Diocese of Bristol was created to cover Bristol. In 1836 it was merged with Bristol as the Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; Bristol became an independent diocese again in 1897.
The diocese has a twinning link with the dioceses of Dornakal and Karnataka Central in the Church of South India.
The diocese is overseen by the Bishop of Gloucester, the Right Reverend Michael Perham, assisted by the Bishop of Tewkesbury, the Right Reverend John Went. It is divided into two archdeaconries, Cheltenham, headed by the Archdeacon of Cheltenham, the Venerable Robert Springett, and Gloucester, headed by the Archdeacon of Gloucester, the Venerable Geoffrey Sidaway. There are presently five deaneries in both archdeaconries of the diocese; the Archdeaconry of Cheltenham consists of the deaneries of Cheltenham, Cirencester, Fairford, North Cotswold, & Tewkesbury and Winchcombe, and the Archdeaconry of Gloucester consists of the deaneries of Forest South, Gloucester City, Severn Vale, Stroud, & Wotton.
The Deanery of North Cotswold in the Archdeaconry of Cheltenham was created in 2010 by the merger of the former deaneries of Chipping Campden, Northleach, and Stow.
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