Diocese of York
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The Diocese of York is an administrative division of the Church of England, part of the Province of York. It covers the city of York, the eastern part of North Yorkshire, and most of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Diocese of York Dioecesis Eboracensis | |
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Location | |
Ecclesiastical province | York |
Archdeaconries | Cleveland, the East Riding, York |
Statistics | |
Parishes | 472 |
Churches | 607 |
Information | |
Cathedral | York Minster |
Language | English |
Current leadership | |
Bishop | Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York |
Suffragans | Paul Ferguson, Bishop of Whitby[1] John Thomson, Bishop of Selby[1] Eleanor Sanderson, Bishop of Hull Stephen Race, Bishop of Beverley (AEO) |
Archdeacons | Andy Broom, Archdeacon of the East Riding Sam Rushton, Archdeacon of York Amanda Bloor, Archdeacon of Cleveland |
Website | |
dioceseofyork.org.uk |
The diocese is headed by the Archbishop of York and its cathedral is York Minster. The diocese is divided into three archdeaconries of Cleveland in the north (with a Bishop of Whitby), the East Riding (with a Bishop of Hull), and in the south-west the Archdeaconry of York (with a Bishop of Selby).
The diocese was once much larger, covering Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and parts of Northumberland, Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland.