Diocese of York

Diocese of York Dioecesis Eboracensis
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Location
Ecclesiastical province	York
Archdeaconries	Cleveland, the East Riding, York
Statistics
Parishes	472
Churches	607
Information
Cathedral	York Minster
Language	English
Current leadership
Bishop	Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York
Suffragans	Eleanor Sanderson, Bishop of Hull Stephen Race, Bishop of Beverley (AEO) Barry Hill, Bishop of Whitby Flora Winfield, Bishop of Selby
Archdeacons	Andy Broom, Archdeacon of the East Riding Amanda Bloor, Archdeacon of Cleveland Archdeacon of York (vacancy)
Website
dioceseofyork.org.uk

The Diocese of York is an administrative division of the Church of England, part of the Province of York. It covers the city of York, the eastern part of North Yorkshire, and most of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The diocese is headed by the archbishop of York and its cathedral is York Minster. The diocese is divided into three archdeaconries of Cleveland in the north (with a Bishop of Whitby), the East Riding (with a Bishop of Hull), and in the south-west the Archdeaconry of York (with a bishop of Selby).

The diocese was once much larger, covering Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and parts of Northumberland, Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland.

The diocesan archbishop of York (currently Stephen Cottrell) is primarily supported by three suffragan bishops: the bishop of Hull (founded 1891; currently Eleanor Sanderson^[1]), the bishop of Whitby (founded 1923; currently Barry Hill^[1]) and the bishop of Selby (founded 1939; currently Flora Winfield^[1]). While not operating a formal area scheme, each suffragan takes informal responsibility for one archdeaconry (East Riding, Cleveland and York respectively). Alternative episcopal oversight (for parishes in the diocese who reject the ministry of priests who are women) is provided by the provincial episcopal visitor (PEV) the bishop suffragan of Beverley (currently Stephen Race); unlike in most dioceses, Beverley does not need to be licensed as an honorary assistant bishop since he is a suffragan in the diocese.

David James, retired bishop of Bradford^[2] and Martin Wallace, retired bishop suffragan of Selby,^[3] live in Beverley and Bridlington respectively, but there is no evidence that either has been licensed as an honorary assistant bishop.

In 1541, the archdeanery of Richmond, North Yorkshire, which included part of the Yorkshire Dales, North Lancashire (including Furness), the southern part of Westmorland and the ward of Allerdale above Derwent in Cumberland, became part of the new Diocese of Chester. (These areas later became parts of other dioceses.)

From the reign of Henry I to 1572 the liberty or county palatine of Hexhamshire was part of the diocese and also the archbishop was the lord palatine of the county. In 1572 the county palatine was abolished and transferred to Northumberland and the Diocese of Durham.

In 1836 the western part (corresponding broadly to the West Riding) was split into the Ripon diocese, which was later subdivided into the dioceses of Ripon and Leeds, Bradford, and Wakefield and now constitutes most of the Diocese of Leeds. In 1884 Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire became part of the new Diocese of Southwell, from which Derbyshire was split off again in 1927 to form the Diocese of Derby. In 1914 the Diocese of Sheffield (covering South Yorkshire) was split off as an independent diocese.

David Butterfield resigned as archdeacon of the East Riding on 26 May 2014 in order to be collated as "Archdeacon for Generous Giving and Stewardship" that 23 June,^[4] a position he held until he retired on 1 July 2017.^[5]

Diocese	Archdeaconries	Rural Deaneries
Diocese of York	Archdeaconry of York	Deanery of New Ainsty
		Deanery of Derwent
		Deanery of Easingwold
		Deanery of Selby
		Deanery of South Wold
		Deanery of Southern Ryedale
		Deanery of City of York
	Archdeaconry of Cleveland	Deanery of Guisborough
		Deanery of Middlesbrough
		Deanery of Mowbray
		Deanery of Northern Ryedale
		Deanery of Stokesley
		Deanery of Whitby
	Archdeaconry of the East Riding	Deanery of Beverley
		Deanery of Bridlington
		Deanery of Hull
		Deanery of Harthill
		Deanery of North Holderness
		Deanery of South Holderness
		Deanery of Howden
		Deanery of Scarborough

From 1972 to 2017 the Deanery of Hull was, unusually, sub-divided into three Area Deaneries of Central and North Hull, East Hull, and West Hull.

• Church of England Statistics 2002 Archived 3 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine

• Ryan, W. E. David (2018). English Medieval church towers: the Northern Province. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-78327-353-9.

• Diocesan website

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