Archdeaconries Chesterfield, Derby Churches 332 Church 332 Phone +44 1332 388650 | Parishes 255 Bishop Alastair Redfern | |
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Archdeacon Christopher Cunliffe, Archdeacon of DerbyTony Kaunhoven, Acting Archdeacon of Chesterfield Address Church House, Full St, Derby DE1 3DR, UK Profiles | ||
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The Diocese of Derby is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury, roughly covering the same area as the County of Derbyshire. Its diocesan bishop is the Bishop of Derby who has his seat at Derby Cathedral. The diocesan bishop is assisted by the suffragan bishop, the bishop of Repton.
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Archdeaconries
The Diocese of Derby contains two archdeaconries: the Archdeaconry of Derby and the Archdeaconry of Chesterfield. The former archdeaconry is divided into the deaneries of Ashbourne, Derby North, Derby South, Duffield, Erewash, Heanor, Longford, Melbourne, and Repton, and the latter into the deaneries of Alfreton, Bakewell and Eyam, Bolsover and Staveley, Buxton, Chesterfield, Glossop, and Wirksworth.
The Archdeaconry of Derby was originally part of the Diocese of Lichfield, but was moved to form part of the Diocese of Southwell when that diocese was created in 1884. On 7 July 1927 the archdeaconries of Derby and Chesterfield became the Diocese of Derby.
Bishops
The current diocesan bishop of Derby is Alastair Redfern. On 29 June 2016, Jan McFarlane was consecrated to the suffragan see of Repton. The provincial episcopal visitor (for parishes in this diocese – among twelve others in the western part of the Province of Canterbury – who reject the ministry of priests who are women, since 1994) is Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet, who is licensed as an honorary assistant bishop of the diocese in order to facilitate his work there.
There are four former bishops licensed as honorary assistant bishops in the diocese: