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This is a list of civil parishes in England split by ceremonial county (see map below). The civil parish is the lowest level of local government in England.
Lists of churches in England include lists of notable current or former church buildings, territories, places of worship, or congregations, and may be discriminated by various criteria, including affiliation, location, or architectural characteristics.
The parish with its parish church(es) is the basic territorial unit of the Church of England. The parish has its roots in the Roman Catholic Church and survived the English Reformation largely untouched. Each is within one of 42 dioceses: [1] divided between the thirty of the Province of Canterbury and the twelve of that of York. There are ...
There are 42 dioceses of the Church of England. [1] These cover England, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and a small part of Wales. The Diocese in Europe is also a part of the Church of England, [1] and covers the whole of continental Europe, Morocco and the post-Soviet states. [2]
As the administration of the poor laws was the main civil function of parishes, the Poor Law Amendment Act 1866, which received royal assent on 10 August 1866, declared all areas that levied a separate rate or had their own overseer of the poor to be parishes. This included the Church of England parishes (until then simply known as "parishes ...
Those Anglo-Catholic parishes in the Church of England that reject the ordination of women can request alternative episcopal oversight (AEO) from a traditionalist bishop. Within the Province of Canterbury , the Anglo-Catholic provincial episcopal visitors (PEV) are the Bishop of Richborough (currently Norman Banks ), the Bishop of Oswestry ...
A list of Catholic churches in the United Kingdom, notable current and former individual church buildings and congregations and administration. These churches are listed buildings or have been recognised for their historical importance, or are church congregations notable for reasons unrelated to their buildings.
List of parishes in the Diocese of Salford; List of church restorations and alterations by Anthony Salvin; List of new churches by Anthony Salvin; List of new churches by George Gilbert Scott in London; List of new churches by George Gilbert Scott in Northern England; List of new churches by George Gilbert Scott in South East England