In other ecclesiatical use, although having lost religious orders in the English Reformation, the diocese has the London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury and records centre of the Church of England in the diocese, Lambeth Palace.
After leaving Eton in 1979 he became a non-stipendiary (unpaid) priest in the Diocese of Southwark.
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He had a wide-ranging parish ministry in the Diocese of Southwark and was at one time Rural Dean of Bermondsey and also the local ministry adviser.