Diocese of Coventry

The modern see, created in 1918, is roughly conterminous with Warwickshire. In Anglo-Saxon and early Norman times the Mercian church had been centred on Lichfield, then on Chester, and eventually, after 1102, on Coventry abbey. In 1836 Coventry and its neighbourhood were put under Worcester, but the massive increase in population in the midlands necessitated the foundation of the Birmingham diocese in 1905 and Coventry in 1918. St Michael's parish church served as the cathedral, until it was destroyed by bombing in 1940. The new cathedral, designed by Basil Spence, is dominated by the great tapestry of Christ in Glory by Graham Sutherland.

Diocese of Coventry
Province	Canterbury
Bishop	Bishop of Coventry
Cathedral	Coventry Cathedral
Archdeaconries	Warwick, Coventry
Suffragan Bishop(s)	Bishop of Warwick
Parishes	199
Churches	243
Website	www.coventry.anglican.org

The Diocese of Coventry is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury. It is headed by the Bishop of Coventry, who sits at Coventry Cathedral in Coventry. There is also the suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Warwick. The diocese covers Coventry, and Warwickshire.

The diocese is divided into two archdeaconries, of Warwick and Coventry - Warwick archdeaconry is then divided into the deaneries of Shipston, Fosse, Alcester, Southam and Warwick & Leamington, whilst Coventry archdeaconry is divided into the deaneries of Rugby, Nuneaton, Kenilworth, and Coventry South, East and North. [1].

The diocese was formed on September 6, 1918 from part of the Diocese of Worcester.^[1]

References

• Church of England Statistics 2002

1. ^ London Gazette. 6 September 1918.

External links

• Diocese of Coventry

Coordinates: 52°24′31″N 1°30′26″W / 52.4085°N 1.5072°W / 52.4085; -1.5072

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