Diocese of Winchester

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The Diocese of Winchester ( Latin : Dioecesis Wintoniensis ) is an Anglican diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury of the Church of England with its seat in Winchester . It was a Roman Catholic diocese until the English Reformation .

history

The diocese of Winchester was created in 660 with the transfer of the bishopric from Dorchester to Winchester. In 909 the Diocese of Winchester gave parts of its territory to the establishment of the Diocese of Ramsbury .

The last Roman Catholic bishop , John White , was deposed by Queen Elizabeth I in 1559 . Bishop John White died in 1560.

The Catholic diocese of Winchester was subordinate to the Archdiocese of Canterbury as a suffragan .

See also

literature

  • Diana E. Greenway: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300. Volume 2. London 1971, pp. 85-87 ( British History Online ).
  • B. Jones: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541. Volume 4. London 1963, pp. 45-47 ( British History Online ).

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