Diocese of Chichester: Difference between revisions

Diocese of Chichester
	; Chichester Cathedral
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Province	Canterbury
Archdeaconries	Chichester, Horsham, Lewes & Hastings
Legal Jurisdictions
Bishops Court	Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Chichester
Location of Archive
	West Sussex Record Office
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Revision as of 20:52, 25 December 2015

The Diocese of Chichester forms part of the Province of Canterbury of the Church of England.

The diocese was created in 1075 as a replacement for the Diocese of Selsey, which had been based at Selsey Abbey from 681.

The present area of the diocese covers:

The diocese is divided into three Archdeaconries containing a total of twenty-one deaneries:

the Archdeaconry of Chichester
- comprises the Deaneries of Arundel and Bognor; Brighton; Chichester; Hove; and Worthing
the Archdeaconry of Horsham
- comprises the Deaneries of Cuckfield; East Grinstead; Horsham; Hurst; Midhurst; Petworth; Storrington; and Westbourne
the Archdeaconry of Lewes & Hastings
- comprises the Deaneries of Battle and Bexhill; Dallington; Eastbourne; Hastings; Lewes and Seaford; Rotherfield; Rye; and Uckfield

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 The present area of the diocese covers:
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 === Archdeaconries and deaneries ===