Diocese of Blackburn

Coordinates: 53°45′00″N 2°29′06″W / 53.750°N 2.485°W / 53.750; -2.485

Diocese of Blackburn
Location
Ecclesiastical province	York
Archdeaconries	Blackburn, Lancaster
Statistics
Parishes	211
Churches	280
Information
Cathedral	Blackburn Cathedral
Current leadership
Bishop	Nicholas Reade, Bishop of Blackburn
Suffragans	John Goddard, Bishop of Burnley Geoff Pearson, Bishop of Lancaster
Archdeacons	John Hawley, Archdeacon of Blackburn Michael Everitt, Archdeacon of Lancaster
Website
blackburn.anglican.org

The Diocese of Blackburn is a Church of England diocese, covering much of Lancashire, created in 1926 from part of the Diocese of Manchester. The Diocese includes the towns of Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, and the cities of Lancaster, and Preston, as well as a large part of the Ribble Valley. The cathedral is Blackburn Cathedral and the Diocesan Bishop is The Rt Revd Nicholas Reade, Bishop of Blackburn, appointed in 2004.

The Diocese has two Suffragan Bishops, The Rt Revd John Goddard, Bishop of Burnley, appointed in 2000, and The Rt Revd Geoff Pearson, Bishop of Lancaster, appointed in 2007.

The Diocesan retreat and conference centre is located at Whalley Abbey in the Ribble Valley, alongside the ruins of the 14th century Cistercian monastery, dissolved in 1537. The Abbey was in private possession until 1923 and has been in the possession of the Diocese of Blackburn since 1926.

Churches within the Diocese

• Blackburn Cathedral
• Bispham Parish Church
• Holy Trinity Church, Blackburn
• St Mark's Church, Blackburn
• Holy Trinity Church, Blackpool
• St John's Church, Blackpool
• St John the Baptist's Church, Bretherton
• St James' Church, Briercliffe
• St Peter's Church, Burnley
• Christ Church, Chatburn
• St Helen's Church, Churchtown
• St Bartholomew's Church, Colne
• St Saviour's Church, Cuerden
• St Paul's Church, Farington
• St Nicholas' Church, Fleetwood
• St Peter's Church, Fleetwood
• Christ Church, Glasson
• St Mary's Church, Goosnargh
• St John the Evangelist's Church, Gressingham
• St Peter's Church, Heysham
• St Margaret's Church, Hornby
• St Michael's Church, Kirkham
• St. Mary the Virgin, Lancaster (Lancaster Priory)
• St Thomas' Church, Lancaster
• St Cuthbert's Church, Lytham
• St Peter's Church, Mawdesley
• St Wilfrid's Church, Melling
• Holy Trinity Church, Morecambe
• St Mary's Church, Newchurch in Pendle
• Immanuel Church, Oswaldtwistle
• Christ Church, Over Wyresdale
• St John the Baptist's Church, Pilling
• St Chad's Church, Poulton-le-Fylde
• St Oswald's Church, Preesall
• St Wilfrid's Church, Ribchester
• St Anne's Church, St Anne's-on-the-Sea
• St Michael's Church, St Michael's on Wyre
• Church of St Leonard the Less, Samlesbury
• St Paul's Church, Scotforth
• St Anne's Church, Singleton, Lancashire
• St Saviour's Church, Stydd
• St Leonard's Church, Walton-le-Dale
• St Oswald's Church, Warton
• St Michael's Church, Weeton
• St. Mary and All Saints, Whalley
• St Anne's Church, Woodplumpton
• St Nicholas' Church, Wrea Green

Honorary assistant bishops

As of September 2011, the honorary assistant bishops of the diocese include the Rt Revd Alan Winstanley, former Bishop of Bolivia and Peru (Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America).^[1] In September 2011, it was announced that Winstanley will move to Exeter diocese (where, presumably, he will become an honorary assistant bishop, vacating that role in Blackburn).^[2]

References

• Church of England Statistics 2002

1. ^ Diocese of Blackburn Person details
2. ^ Church Times #7749, 23 September 2011 – Appointments, p. 26

External links

• Official website