Province of York

The Province of York (red, in the north of England ) is one of two ecclesiastical provinces of the Church of England .

The Province of York , along with the Province of Canterbury, is one of two ecclesiastical provinces that make up the Church of England , and consists of 14 dioceses that comprise the northern third of England and the Isle of Man . York was made an archbishopric in 735 , the first archbishop of which was Egbert of York . The Archbishops of York later also claimed metropolitan authority over Scotland , but these claims were never implemented and were extinguished when the Archdioceses of St Andrews and Glasgow were formed.

The Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province is the Archbishop of York , the lower of the two Archbishops in the Church of England.

Dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of York

• Diocese of York ( Archbishops of York )

1. Diocese of Blackburn ( Bishops of Blackburn )
2. Diocese of Carlisle ( Bishops of Carlisle )
3. Diocese of Chester ( Bishops of Chester )
4. Diocese of Durham ( Bishops of Durham )
5. Diocese of Liverpool ( Bishops of Liverpool )
6. Diocese of Manchester ( Bishops of Manchester )
7. Diocese of Newcastle ( Bishops of Newcastle )
8. Diocese of Leeds ( Bishops of Leeds )
9. Diocese of Sheffield ( Bishops of Sheffield )
10. Diocese of Sodor and Man ( Bishops of Sodor and Man )
11. Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham ( Bishops of Southwell and Nottingham )

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Cannon: York, metropolitan diocese of ( English ) In: The Oxford Companion to British History . Oxford University Press. 2002. Retrieved January 27, 2011.