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In 1541 the Diocese of Chester was created and parishes in south Lancashire, Cheshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire were transferred to the new diocese. On 24 January 1837, the archdeaconry of Coventry was transferred to the Diocese of Worcester [3] and the Bishop, see and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry all accordingly renamed Lichfield. [3]
Diocese: Lichfield: Installed: 1984: Term ended: 2003 (retirement) Predecessor: Kenneth Skelton: Successor: Jonathan Gledhill: Other post(s) Bishop of Kingston (1978–1984) Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge (1973–1978) Honorary assistant bishop in the Truro and Exeter dioceses (2003–?) Orders; Consecration: 29 September 1978: Personal ...
The Bishoprick: quarterly magazine of Durham diocese, volume 28 no. 4, August 1953.With 32 pages including advertising, its contents included three letters or recent addresses from the bishop; details of the Church Assembly and Diocesan Conference; news from the local deaneries; faculties granted; Petertide ordinations, and clerical appointments and obituaries.
Lichfield gained co-cathedral status in 1148, and became the sole cathedral in the diocese after St Mary's Priory was dissolved in 1539 and the new diocese of Chester created in 1541. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] During the English Civil War the cathedral close was beseiged three times; the church was severely damaged, losing all of its medieval glass and ...
The archdeaconry was created before 1135 in (what was in 1222) the Diocese of Coventry (that diocese was called Coventry and Lichfield from 1228 and then Lichfield and Coventry from 1539); it formed part of the Diocese of Chester upon her creation in 1541 and remains so today.
The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers 4,516 km 2 (1,744 sq. mi.) of the counties of Powys , Staffordshire , Shropshire , Warwickshire and West Midlands .
1848 - The college is wound up and St Peter's becomes a parish within the Lichfield Diocese, with its own Rector. The dependent chapels become new parishes, each with a vicar. 1860 - "Father" Henry Willis built a new organ (in 1882 the organ was enlarged; revamped with an electrical blowing installation in 1914; rebuilt in 1970, "restored" in ...
Lichfield (/ ˈ l ɪ tʃ f iː l d /) is a cathedral city and civil parish [2] in Staffordshire, England.Lichfield is situated 18 miles (29 km) south-east of the county town of Stafford, 9 miles (14 km) north-east of Walsall, 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Tamworth and 13 miles (21 km) south-west of Burton upon Trent.