Province of Canterbury
The Province of Canterbury is one of the two ecclesiastical provinces of the Anglican Church of England , along with the Province of York . It consists of 30 dioceses and thus includes about the southern two thirds of England , as well as the Channel Islands , some border areas of Wales and, through the diocese in Europe, all of the rest of Europe outside the British Isles .
Metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province is the Archbishop of Canterbury , who is at the same time Primate of the entire Church of England and Honorary Head of the Anglican Church Fellowship.
history
The province emerged in the early Middle Ages around the year 600 with the appointment of Augustine as the first Archbishop of Canterbury. Between 787 and 803, the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury briefly lost about half of its territory, as the Bishop of Lichfield Higbert was elevated to archbishop and thus a short-lived third ecclesiastical province was created.
Until 1920, when the Independent Church in Wales was formed, all of Wales was part of the province of Canterbury. In the past, the Falkland Islands also formed a diocese of the ecclesiastical province, but the semi-autonomous Parish of the Falkland Islands has existed since 1978 .
List of dioceses
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- Bath and Wells
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Canterbury (Archbishop's Diocese)
- Chelmsford
- Chichester
- Coventry
- Derby
- Ely
- Exeter
- Diocese in Europe (includes the rest of continental Europe)
- Gloucester
- Guildford
- Hereford (also includes a few parishes in Wales )
- Leicester
- Lichfield
- Lincoln
- London
- Norwich
- Oxford
- Peterborough
- Portsmouth
- Rochester
- Saint Albans
- Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich
- Salisbury
- Southwark
- Truro
- Winchester (also includes the Channel Islands )
- Worcester