Diocese of Sheffield
53°22′55″N 1°28′12″W / 53.382°N 1.470°W
Diocese of Sheffield Dioecesis Sheffieldensis | |
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| Location | |
| Country | England |
| Ecclesiastical province | York |
| Archdeaconries | Sheffield and Rotherham, Doncaster |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 175 |
| Churches | 221 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Cathedral | Sheffield Cathedral |
| Language | English |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Pete Wilcox, Bishop of Sheffield |
| Suffragan | Bishop of Doncaster (vacant; bishop-designate: Lean Vasey-Saunders) |
| Archdeacons | Malcolm Chamberlain, Archdeacon of Sheffield and Rotherham Javaid Iqbal, Archdeacon of Doncaster |
| Website | |
| sheffield.anglican.org | |
The Diocese of Sheffield is an administrative division of the Church of England, part of the Province of York.
The Diocese of Sheffield was created under George V on 23 January 1914, by the division from the Diocese of York (along with that part of the Diocese of Southwell in the city of Sheffield). It covers most of the County of South Yorkshire (except Barnsley), with a small part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, one parish in North Yorkshire and one in North Lincolnshire – an area of almost 576 square miles (1,490 km2). It is headed by the Bishop of Sheffield and its Cathedral is Sheffield Cathedral.
The diocese has been linked with the Diocese of Argentina of the Anglican Church of South America since 1993 and the Hattingen-Witten District in Westphalia of the Protestant Church in Germany since 1990.