- Diocese of Gloucester
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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 CheltenhamWebsite 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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Anglican dioceses in the United Kingdom and Ireland 
Church of EnglandBath & Wells • Birmingham • Bristol • Canterbury • Chelmsford • Chichester • Coventry • Derby • Ely • Exeter • Gibraltar in Europe • Gloucester • Guildford • Hereford • Leicester • Lichfield • Lincoln • London • Norwich • Oxford • Peterborough • Portsmouth • Rochester • Saint Albans • Saint Edmundsbury & Ipswich • Salisbury • Southwark • Truro • Winchester • Worcester
Blackburn • Bradford • Carlisle • Chester • Durham • Liverpool • Manchester • Newcastle • Ripon & Leeds • Sheffield • Sodor & Man • Southwell & Nottingham • Wakefield • York
Church in Wales
Scottish Episcopal Church
Church of IrelandCategories:- Diocese of Gloucester
- Dioceses of the Church of England
- Religion in Gloucestershire
- 1541 establishments in England
- Religious organizations established in the 1540s
- Dioceses established in the 16th century
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