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The Diocese of Ely is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury. It is headed by the Bishop of Ely, who sits at Ely Cathedral in Ely. There is one suffragan (subordinate) bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon. The diocese now covers the modern ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire (excluding the Soke of Peterborough) and western Norfolk.
The City of Ely Council is the parish council responsible for local government within the civil parish of the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The parish council was formed on 1 April 1974 as a successor authority of the City of Ely Urban District Council. The parish council derives its powers and functions from the Local Government Act ...
The Bishop of Ely is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire (with the exception of the Soke of Peterborough), together with a section of north-west Norfolk and has its episcopal see in the City of Ely, Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire, where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy ...
Ely was declared to be a local board district on 15 July 1850, covering the two parishes of Ely Holy Trinty and Ely St Mary, plus the unparished area known as Ely College which surrounded the cathedral. The order creating the local board described the district as the "city of Ely", and the new body called itself the "City of Ely Local Board".
Ely Canterbury Cambridgeshire except part of the northwest and south; the western quarter of Norfolk; part of Bedfordshire [46] Ely Cathedral [47] 1109: Europe Canterbury Europe except Great Britain and Ireland; Morocco; Turkey; the post-Soviet states in Asia [48] Gibraltar Cathedral [49] 21 August 1842 (Diocese of Gibraltar) [50]
The Archdeaconry of Huntingdon was a part of the Diocese of Lincoln from (at the latest) the early 12th century. As such it is the oldest continually occupied Archdeaconry in England. The archdeaconry was moved to Ely diocese by Order in Council on 30 May 1837. [1]
He held curacies at St Dunstan’s Canterbury and then St John the Baptist, Margate. After this he was the incumbent at Newington and then Hackington . He was a Canon Residentiary at Canterbury Cathedral from 1995 to 2003 when he became Dean of Ely , a post he retired from on 30 September 2011.
[3] [4] In 1987, he was nominated as Bishop Suffragan of Dorchester in the Diocese of Oxford [5] and was consecrated on 2 February 1988 by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey; [6] before being nominated as the Bishop of Ely in 2000. [7] Russell initiated proceedings in the church courts against the Vicar of Trumpington ...