The Province of Canterbury, also called the Southern Province, is one of two ecclesiastical provinces which comprise the Church of England. (The other is the Province of York.)[1] It consists of 30 dioceses, covering roughly the southern two-thirds of England,[2] parts of Wales, and the Channel Islands,[3] with the remainder comprising continental Europe (under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe).
Historically, between the years 787 and 803, a third Province was formed: the Province of Lichfield.[4] In 1871, the Church of Ireland became autonomous, and the Church in Wales was disestablished in 1920.[1]
The Province's metropolitan bishop is the Archbishop of Canterbury[1] who still oversees the Falkland Islands, an extra-provincial parish.[5]
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ODCC = Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ed. Cross & Livingstone: 1974
