Diocese of Leicester Dioecesis Leicestriensis | |
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| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | Canterbury |
| Archdeaconries | Leicester, Loughborough |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 234 |
| Churches | 324 |
| Information | |
| Cathedral | Leicester Cathedral, 680–c. 870 & 1927–present |
| Language | English |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Martyn Snow, Bishop of Leicester |
| Suffragan | Saju Muthalaly, Bishop of Loughborough |
| Archdeacons | Claire Wood, Archdeacon of Loughborough Richard Worsfold, Archdeacon of Leicester |
| Website | |
| leicester.anglican.org | |
The Diocese of Leicester is a Church of England diocese based in Leicester and including the current county of Leicestershire.[1] The cathedral is Leicester Cathedral, where the Bishop of Leicester has his episcopal chair.
The diocese is divided into two archdeaconries, the Archdeaconry of Leicester in the east of the county and the Archdeaconry of Loughborough in the west. The former is divided into the rural deaneries of City of Leicester; Framland (Melton Mowbray); Gartree First and Second; and Goscote. The latter is divided into the rural deaneries of Akeley East, South and West; Guthlaxton; and Sparkenhoe East and West.
The diocese owns a retreat house at Launde Abbey near East Norton.
- ^ The County of Rutland was administered by Leicestershire from 1974 to 1997 but remained in the Diocese of Peterborough and continued to form part of the Archdeaconry of Oakham