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Diocese of Wakefield | |
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 Coat of arms | |
| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | York |
| Archdeaconries | Halifax, Pontefract |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 188 |
| Churches | 234 |
| Information | |
| Established | 18 May 1888–20 April 2014 |
| Cathedral | Wakefield Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | At dissolution: Stephen Platten, Bishop of Wakefield |
| Suffragan | At dissolution: Tony Robinson, Bishop of Pontefract |
| Archdeacons | At dissolution: Peter Townley, Archdeacon of Pontefract Dr Anne Dawtry, Archdeacon of Halifax |
| Website | |
| wakefield.anglican.org | |
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The Diocese of Wakefield is a former Church of England diocese based in Wakefield in West Yorkshire, covering Wakefield, Barnsley, Kirklees and Calderdale. The cathedral was Wakefield Cathedral and the bishop was the diocesan Bishop of Wakefield.
The Diocese of Wakefield was created out of the Diocese of Ripon in 1888 in response to the rapid expansion in population due to the Industrial Revolution. Immediately prior to its dissolution it extended north to south from the suburbs of Leeds to Barnsley and east to west from Kellington to Todmorden. The diocese was dissolved on 20 April 2014 by the creation of the new Diocese of Leeds.[1]
- ^ The Transformation Programme – First new diocese for more than 85 years created on April 20 Archived April 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 19 April 2014)