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Diocese of Durham

Index Diocese of Durham

The Diocese of Durham is a Church of England diocese, based in Durham, and covering the historic County Durham (and therefore including the part of Tyne and Wear south of the River Tyne, and excluding southern Teesdale). [1]

79 relations: Aldhun, Anglo-Saxons, Antony Bek (bishop of Durham), Archdeacon of Auckland, Archdeacon of Durham, Assistant bishop, Auckland Castle, Bedlington, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Bishop Auckland, Bishop of Berwick, Bishop of Beverley, Bishop of Brixworth, Bishop of Durham, Bishop of Jarrow, Bishop of Salisbury, Carlisle, Cumbria, Chancellor, Chester-le-Street, Church of England, County Durham, County Palatine of Durham, Courts Act 1971, Cuncacestre, Danelaw, David Stancliffe, Diocese, Diocese in Europe, Diocese of Durham, Diocese of Newcastle, Durham Castle, Durham Cathedral, Durham University, Durham, England, English Civil War, Firth of Forth, Frank White (bishop), Gateshead, Glyn Webster, Great Seal of the Realm, Harrying of the North, Henry IV of England, Henry V of England, Henry VI of England, Henry VIII of England, Historic counties of England, Humber, Ian Jagger, Islandshire, Kingdom of Northumbria, ..., Lindisfarne, London, Mark Bryant (bishop), Norham, Norham Castle, Normans, Northumberland, Palace Green, Parliament, Paul Butler (bishop), Prince-bishop, Province of York, Provincial episcopal visitor, Reform Act 1832, Rick Simpson (priest), River Derwent, North East England, River Tyne, Robert de Comines, Stanhope, County Durham, Stuart Bain, Suffragan bishop, Sunderland Minster, Teesdale, Thomas Langley, Tyne and Wear, Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, William II of England, William the Conqueror, William Walcher. Expand index (29 more) »

Aldhun

Aldhun of Durham (died 1018 or 1019), also known as Ealdhun, was the last Bishop of Lindisfarne (based at Chester-le-Street) and the first Bishop of Durham.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Antony Bek (bishop of Durham)

Antony Bek (also spelled Beck and Beke; died 3 March 1311) was a medieval bishop of Durham.

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Archdeacon of Auckland

The archdeaconry of Auckland is a post in the Church of England Diocese of Durham.

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Archdeacon of Durham

The Archdeacon of Durham is a senior ecclesiastical officer of the diocese of Durham (Church of England).

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Assistant bishop

An assistant bishop in the Anglican Communion is a bishop appointed to assist a diocesan bishop.

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Auckland Castle

Auckland Castle, also known as Auckland Palace and locally as the Bishop's Castle or Bishop's Palace, is located in Bishop Auckland, its neighbouring town in County Durham, England.

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Bedlington

Bedlington is a town in Northumberland, England, with a population of roughly 15,400, measured at 18,470 at the 2011 Census.

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Berwick-upon-Tweed

Berwick-upon-Tweed (Sooth Berwick, Bearaig a Deas) is a town in the county of Northumberland.

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Bishop Auckland

Bishop Auckland is a market town and civil parish in County Durham in north east England.

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Bishop of Berwick

The Bishop of Berwick is an episcopal title used by the suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Newcastle in the Province of York, England.

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Bishop of Beverley

The Bishop of Beverley is a Church of England suffragan bishop.

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Bishop of Brixworth

The Bishop of Brixworth is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Peterborough, in the Province of Canterbury, England.

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Bishop of Durham

The Bishop of Durham is the Anglican bishop responsible for the Diocese of Durham in the Province of York.

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Bishop of Jarrow

The Bishop of Jarrow is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Durham, in the Province of York, England.

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Bishop of Salisbury

The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury.

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Carlisle, Cumbria

Carlisle (or from Cumbric: Caer Luel Cathair Luail) is the county town of Cumbria.

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Chancellor

Chancellor (cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations.

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Chester-le-Street

Chester-le-Street is a town in County Durham, England.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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County Durham

County Durham (locally) is a county in North East England.

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County Palatine of Durham

The County Palatine of Durham was an area in the North of England that was controlled by the Bishop of Durham.

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Courts Act 1971

The Courts Act 1971 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (c 23) the purpose of which was to reform and modernise the courts system of England and Wales.

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Cuncacestre

Cuncacestre (Chester-le-Street) is a Roman Catholic titular see and was a former seat of the Anglo Saxon Bishop of Lindisfarne.

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Danelaw

The Danelaw (also known as the Danelagh; Dena lagu; Danelagen), as recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, is a historical name given to the part of England in which the laws of the Danes held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.

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David Stancliffe

David Staffurth Stancliffe (born 1 October 1942) is a retired Church of England bishop.

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Diocese

The word diocese is derived from the Greek term διοίκησις meaning "administration".

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Diocese in Europe

The Diocese in Europe (short form for "The Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe") is geographically the largest diocese of the Church of England and the largest diocese in the Anglican Communion, covering some one-sixth of the Earth's landmass, including Morocco, Europe (excluding the British Isles), Turkey, Mongolia and the territory of the former Soviet Union.

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Diocese of Durham

The Diocese of Durham is a Church of England diocese, based in Durham, and covering the historic County Durham (and therefore including the part of Tyne and Wear south of the River Tyne, and excluding southern Teesdale).

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Diocese of Newcastle

The Diocese of Newcastle is a Church of England diocese based in Newcastle upon Tyne, covering the historic county of Northumberland (and therefore including the part of Tyne and Wear north of the River Tyne), as well as the area of Alston Moor in Cumbria (historic Cumberland).

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Durham Castle

Durham Castle is a Norman castle in the city of Durham, England, which has been wholly occupied since 1840 by University College, Durham.

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Durham Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham, commonly known as Durham Cathedral and home of the Shrine of St Cuthbert, is a cathedral in the city of Durham, United Kingdom, the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Durham.

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Durham University

Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, North East England, with a second campus in Stockton-on-Tees.

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Durham, England

Durham (locally) is a historic city and the county town of County Durham in North East England.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") over, principally, the manner of England's governance.

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Firth of Forth

The Firth of Forth (Linne Foirthe) is the estuary (firth) of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth.

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Frank White (bishop)

Francis "Frank" White (born 26 May 1949) is a retired English Anglican bishop.

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Gateshead

Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Glyn Webster

Glyn Hamilton Webster (born 1951) is a British Anglican bishop.

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Great Seal of the Realm

The Great Seal of the Realm or Great Seal of the United Kingdom (known prior to the Treaty of Union of 1707 as the Great Seal of England; and from then until the Union of 1801 as the Great Seal of Great Britain and Ireland) is a seal that is used to symbolise the Sovereign's approval of important state documents.

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Harrying of the North

The Harrying of the North was a series of campaigns waged by William the Conqueror in the winter of 1069–70 to subjugate northern England.

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Henry IV of England

Henry IV (15 April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413, and asserted the claim of his grandfather, Edward III, to the Kingdom of France.

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Henry V of England

Henry V (9 August 1386 – 31 August 1422) was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of 36 in 1422.

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Henry VI of England

Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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Historic counties of England

The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Anglo-Saxons and others.

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Humber

The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England.

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Ian Jagger

Ian Jagger (born 17 April 1955) is a British Anglican Priest.

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Islandshire

Islandshire was an area of Northumberland, England, comprising Lindisfarne or Holy Island, plus five parishes on the mainland.

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Kingdom of Northumbria

The Kingdom of Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīce) was a medieval Anglian kingdom in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland.

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Lindisfarne

The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mark Bryant (bishop)

Mark Watts Bryant (born 8 October 1949) is a British Anglican bishop.

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Norham

Norham is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England, just south of the River Tweed and the border with Scotland.

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Norham Castle

Norham Castle is a castle in Northumberland, England, overlooking the River Tweed, on the border between England and Scotland.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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Northumberland

Northumberland (abbreviated Northd) is a county in North East England.

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Palace Green

Palace Green is an area of grass in the centre of Durham, England, flanked by Durham Cathedral and Durham Castle.

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Parliament

In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government.

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Paul Butler (bishop)

Paul Roger Butler (born 18 September 1955) is the Bishop of Durham in the Diocese of Durham.

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Prince-bishop

A prince-bishop is a bishop who is also the civil ruler of some secular principality and sovereignty.

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Province of York

The Province of York is one of two ecclesiastical provinces making up the Church of England and consists of 12 dioceses which cover the northern third of England and the Isle of Man.

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Provincial episcopal visitor

A provincial episcopal visitor (PEV), popularly known as a flying bishop, is a Church of England bishop assigned to minister to many of the clergy, laity and parishes who on grounds of theological conviction, "are unable to receive the ministry of women bishops or priests." The system by which said bishops provide certain churches with oversight is referred to as alternative episcopal oversight (AEO).

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Reform Act 1832

The Representation of the People Act 1832 (known informally as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act to distinguish it from subsequent Reform Acts) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales.

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Rick Simpson (priest)

Richard Lee "Rick" Simpson (born 1966) is a British Anglican priest.

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River Derwent, North East England

The River Derwent is a river which flows between the borders of County Durham and Northumberland in the north east of England.

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River Tyne

The River Tyne is a river in North East England and its length (excluding tributaries) is.

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Robert de Comines

Robert Comine (died 1069) (also Robert de Comines, Robert de Comyn) was very briefly earl of Northumbria.

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Stanhope, County Durham

Stanhope (pronounced in the regional dialect "Stanup") is a small market town in County Durham, England.

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Stuart Bain

John Stuart Bain (born 12 October 1955) was the Archdeacon of Sunderland from 2002 until 2018.

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Suffragan bishop

A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop.

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Sunderland Minster

The Minster Church of St Michael and All Angels and St Benedict Biscop (commonly known as Sunderland Minster) is a church in Sunderland city centre, England.

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Teesdale

Teesdale is a dale, or valley, of the east side of the Pennines in County Durham, England.

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Thomas Langley

Thomas Langley (c. 1363 – 20 November 1437) was an English prelate who held high ecclesiastical and political offices in the early to mid-15th century.

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Tyne and Wear

Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in the North East region of England around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear.

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Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria

Waltheof, 1st Earl of Northumbria (d. 31 May 1076) was the last of the Anglo-Saxon earls and the only English aristocrat to be executed during the reign of William I.

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William II of England

William II (Old Norman: Williame; – 2 August 1100), the third son of William the Conqueror, was King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers over Normandy, and influence in Scotland.

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William the Conqueror

William I (c. 1028Bates William the Conqueror p. 33 – 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.

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William Walcher

William Walcher (died 14 May 1080) was the bishop of Durham from 1071,Fryde, et al.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese_of_Durham

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