Diocese of Coventry

Diocese of Coventry Dioecesis Coventriensis
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Location
Ecclesiastical province	Canterbury
Archdeaconries	Warwick, Coventry
Statistics
Parishes	199
Churches	245
Information
Cathedral	Coventry Cathedral
Language	English
Current leadership
Bishop	Tim Thornton, Acting Bishop of Coventry Sophie Jelley, bishop-designate
Suffragan	Bishop of Warwick (vacant; Saju Muthalaly, Bishop of Loughborough is part-time Assistant Bishop of Coventry)
Archdeacons	Barry Dugmore, Archdeacon Missioner (Archdeacon of Warwick) Archdeacon Pastor/Archdeacon of Coventry (vacant)
Website
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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, and is assisted by one suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Warwick. The diocese covers Coventry and Warwickshire.

The diocese is divided into two archdeaconries, 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 6 September 1918 from part of the Diocese of Worcester.^[2]

An ancient diocese exists (now called the Diocese of Lichfield) which had the title the "Diocese of Coventry" from 1102 until 1228, then "Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield" until 1539, then "Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry" until 1837, when Coventry itself was passed to the Diocese of Worcester. There were then two Bishops suffragan of Coventry in that diocese, 1891–1903.