Diocese of Leicester
The Diocese of Leicester ( Latin : Dioecesis Leicestriensis ) is an Anglican diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury of the Church of England with its seat in Leicester . It was a Roman Catholic diocese until the English Reformation .
history
The Diocese of Leicester was established in 670 from cessions of territory by the Diocese of Lichfield . In 705 the Diocese of Leicester gave up parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Sherborne . Between 869 and 888 the episcopal see was transferred from Leicester to Dorchester and the title changed to Bishop of Dorchester .
The Catholic diocese of Leicester was subordinate to the Archdiocese of Canterbury as a suffragan .
See also
literature
- Pius Bonifacius Gams : Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , Leipzig 1931, pp. 191–192
- Diana E. Greenway: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300. Volume 3. London 1977, pp. 32-35 ( British History Online ).