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unusual facts about Diocese of Chester


Diocese of Chester

Alternative episcopal oversight (for parishes in the diocese who reject the ministry of priests who are women) is provided by the provincial episcopal visitor (PEV) the Bishop suffragan of Beverley, Glyn Webster.


James Slade

The following year, it was arranged for him to exchange his Teversham living for the position of vicar of Bolton le Moors, then a large parish in the Diocese of Chester with a fast growing population living in appalling conditions with only one town centre parish church.

Thomas Raikes

Their eldest son Thomas became a noted London diarist; another son, Henry, became a churchman, eventually Chancellor of the Diocese of Chester.


see also

Francis Robert Raines

Francis Gastrell, Notitia Cestriensis: Or Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester (1850) editor