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From: Mark Hattam <>
Subject: Re: [CON] a geography lesson well learned
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 13:55:45 +0000
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Hi Lori

You're probably done with the councils and government. But this is
how the Church of England subdivides the country into smaller
administrative units.

This is taken from the Church of England webpage at
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/organisation.html
and obviously they have a great deal more information available there.

[quote]

The Church of England is organised into two provinces; each led by an
archbishop (Canterbury for the Southern Province and York for the Northern).
These two provinces cover every inch of English soil, the Isle of Man, the
Channel Islands, the Isles of Scilly and even a small part of Wales.

Each province is built from dioceses. There are 43 in England and the
Diocese in Europe has clergy and congregations in the rest of Europe,
Morocco, Turkey and the Asian countries of the former Soviet Union.

Each diocese (except Europe) is divided into parishes. The parish is the
heart of the Church of England. Each parish is overseen by a parish priest
(usually called a vicar or rector). From ancient times through to today,
they, and their bishop, are responsible for the 'cure of souls' in their
parish. That includes everyone. And this explains why parish priests are so
involved with the key issues and problems affecting the whole community.

[endquote]

Mark Hattam

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>Thank you to all. When I put all the messages together, it
>"clicked". Now I know where to start looking!!
>A thousand thanks!!
>Lori Johnson nee Richards

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