About...
Ely is one of 44 dioceses of the Church
of England, a group of some 300 parishes under the
pastoral and administrative care of a single bishop, the
Bishop of Ely.
The Church
of England belongs to that part of the Christian
tradition known as the Anglican
Communion, representing those in communion with the
Archbishop of Canterbury and deriving their forms of
worship and the orders of their bishops, priests and
deacons via the Reformation settlement in England.
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| The map shows the
dioceses of the Church of England, with
the diocese of Ely highlighted in red. |
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The See of Ely was founded in
1109. We hope to provide more information about
the history of Ely in
a future release. The diocese covers the
county of Cambridgeshire (except for three parishes in the south
which are in the diocese of Chelmsford); together
with the western quarter of Norfolk, a few
parishes in Peterborough and in Essex and one in Bedfordshire.
| Population: |
610,000 |
Area: |
1507 sq miles |
Stipendiary
male clergy: |
140 |
Stipendiary
female
clergy: |
26 |
| benefices: |
257 |
parishes: |
313 |
| churches: |
341 |
(1995
data) |
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