Diocese of Chester
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The Diocese of Chester is a Church of England diocese in the Province of York covering the pre-1974 county of Cheshire and therefore including the Wirral and parts of Stockport, Trafford and Tameside.
Bishops of the diocese in 2022 (L to R: Corley, Tanner, Conalty)
Bishop of Chester
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The Bishop of Chester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chester in the Province of York.
Diocese of Chester
…Tameside. Before the sixteenth century the city possessed a bishop and a cathedral, though only intermittently. Even before the Norman Conquest the title "Bishop of Chester" is found in documents applied to prelates who would be more correctly described as Bishop of Mercia, or Bishop of Lichfield. After the Council of…
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