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Between the 1801 Union and 1871 disestablishment, the Anglican dioceses of England and Ireland were united in one United Church of England and Ireland. As such, the Irish dioceses were, for a time, Church of England dioceses. Each diocese is listed with its cathedral(s) only during the United Church period.
The Diocese in Europe is also a part of the Church of England, [1] and covers the whole of continental Europe, Morocco and the post-Soviet states. [2] The structure of dioceses within the Church of England was initially inherited from the Catholic Church as part of the Protestant Reformation. [3]
It remained part of the Church of England until 1978, when the Anglican Church of Bermuda separated. The Church of England was the state religion in Bermuda and a system of parishes was set up for the religious and political subdivision of the colony (they survive, today, as both civil and religious parishes). Bermuda, like Virginia, tended to ...
The following lists the Anglican dioceses in the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Church of Ireland. For a list of all dioceses worldwide see List of Anglican dioceses.
The history of the Anglican Communion may be attributed mainly to the worldwide spread of British culture associated with the British Empire.Among other things the Church of England spread around the world and, gradually developing autonomy in each region of the world, became the communion as it exists today.
The diocese was the first Church of England see created outside England and Wales (i.e. the first colonial diocese). At this point, the see covered present-day New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec. [45]
St Patrick's Cathedral, the seat of the Anglican Diocese of Armagh in the Church of Ireland. After the English Reformation, the Church of England retained the existing diocesan structure which remains throughout the Anglican Communion. The one change is that the areas administered under the Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop of York are ...
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