Diocese of Ely
{{Short description|Diocese of the Church of England}}
{{EngvarB|date=July 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}}
{{Infobox diocese
| jurisdiction = Diocese
| name = Ely
| latin = Dioecesis Eliensis
| image = Diocese of Ely arms.svg
| image_size = 150px
| caption = Coat of arms of the Bishop of Ely: Gules, three ducal coronets orDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p.420
| flag = Flag of the Diocese of Ely.svg
| flag_size = 150px
| province = Canterbury
| parishes = 309
| churches = 339
| bishop = Bishop of Ely (vacant; acting: the Bishop of Huntingdon)
| cathedral = Ely Cathedral
| language = English
| archdeaconries = Cambridge, Huntingdon and Wisbech
| suffragan = Dagmar Winter, Bishop of Huntingdon
| archdeacons = Alex Hughes, Archdeacon of Cambridge[http://www.ely.anglican.org/news_events/news_items/7Apr14.html Diocese of Ely – Next Archdeacon of Cambridge appointed] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004110358/http://www.ely.anglican.org/news_events/news_items/7Apr14.html |date=4 October 2015 }} (Accessed 11 April 2014)
Richard Harlow, Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech
| website = [https://www.elydiocese.org/ https://www.elydiocese.org/]
}}
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 diocese was created in 1109 out of part of the Diocese of Lincoln.
The diocese is ancient, and the area of Ely was part of the patrimony of Saint Etheldreda. A religious house was founded in the city in 673. After her death in 679 she was buried outside the church, and her remains were later reburied inside, the foundress being commemorated as a great Anglian saint.
The diocese has had its boundaries altered various times. From an original diocese covering the historic county of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire were added in 1837 from the Diocese of Lincoln, as was the Sudbury archdeaconry in Suffolk from the Diocese of Norwich. In 1914 Bedfordshire became part of the Diocese of St Albans, and western Suffolk became part of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, whilst Ely took a western part of the Diocese of Norwich. Peterborough remains the seat of the Diocese of Peterborough.{{cite web|url=http://www.ely.anglican.org/about/history.html|title=History of the Diocese|access-date=31 March 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313203127/http://www.ely.anglican.org/about/history.html|archive-date=13 March 2007|url-status=dead}}
Today the diocese covers an area of {{convert|1507|sqmi|km2}}. It has a population of 705,000 and comprises 209 benefices, 303 parishes and 335 churches with 145 stipendiary parochial clergy.
Bishops
The diocesan Bishop of Ely (vacant) is assisted by a Bishop suffragan of Huntingdon (Dagmar Winter).
There are also four retired bishops living in the diocese who are licensed as honorary assistant bishops:
- 2011–present: Lindsay Urwin. Former Area Bishop of Horsham.{{Who's Who
| title=Urwin, Lindsay Goodall
| id = U20810
| volume = 2014
| edition = December 2013 online
| access-date = 25 April 2014
}} At present, he is a parish priest in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TauCenGEvhw|title=Love at a Distance II... Palm Sunday Mass from Christ Church, Brunswick 5th April 2020|date=4 April 2020 |accessdate=25 July 2023|via=www.youtube.com}}
- 2012–present: Retired Dean of St Paul's and former Bishop of Sodor and Man Graeme Knowles lives in Bury St Edmunds (in neighbouring Eds & Ips diocese.){{Who's Who
| title=Knowles, Graeme Paul
| id = U23362
| volume = 2014
| edition = December 2013 online
| access-date = 25 April 2014
}}
- 2013–present: John Flack, retired Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome & Archbishop's Representative to the Holy See and former Bishop of Huntingdon, lives in Whittlesey.{{Crockford
| surname = Flack
| forenames = John Robert
| id = 42421
| accessed = 18 June 2016
}}
- 2020–present: Graham Kings, former Bishop of Sherborne.{{Crockford
| surname = Kings
| forenames = Graham Ralph
| id = 32771
| accessed = 15 April 2022
}}
Alternative episcopal oversight (for parishes in the diocese which reject the ministry of women priests and bishops) is provided by the provincial episcopal visitor, Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough, who is licensed as an honorary assistant bishop of the diocese to facilitate his work there.
The Bishop of Peterborough has also been commissioned as assistant bishop in the diocese so that he can exercise pastoral care in several old Huntingdonshire parishes now within the Peterborough unitary authority: including Stanground, Orton, Woodston, Yaxley and Fletton.{{cite news| title =Bridging the divide in a city| url =http://www.ely.anglican.org/news_events/media/press/details.html?id=26| work =Diocesan website – press releases| publisher =Diocese of Ely| date =29 July 2004| access-date =9 March 2007| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070307175451/http://www.ely.anglican.org/news_events/media/press/details.html?id=26| archive-date =7 March 2007| df =dmy-all}}Bridging the city divide. Ely Ensign. September 2004. Issue no. 178. p.4[http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/religion-bishops-bridge-boundaries-aboard-boat-1-150260 "Bishops bridge boundaries aboard boat"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202100829/http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/religion-bishops-bridge-boundaries-aboard-boat-1-150260 |date=2 February 2014 }} Peterborough Telegraph 2 August 2004[http://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/cms.php?page=214 "Bishop Donald becomes Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Ely"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202125747/http://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/cms.php?page=214 |date=2 February 2014 }} on the Peterborough Diocese website
Archdeaconries and deaneries
The archdeaconry of Wisbech was active from 1915 to 2005. The following changes to deaneries have taken place:
- the deaneries of Fordham and Quy merged in 2002 to form the deanery of Fordham and Quy
- the deaneries of Wisbech and Lynn Marshland merged in 2002 to form the deanery of Wisbech Lynn Marshland
- the deaneries of Fincham and Feltwell were merged in 2004 to form the deanery of Fincham and Feltwell.
- the deaneries of Shelford and Linton were merged in 2009 to form the deanery of Granta.
- the deanery of Cambridge was split in 2006 into the deaneries of Cambridge North and Cambridge South.
- the deanery of Leightonstone was merged into the deanery of Huntingdon in 2004.
= Deaneries in 1851 =
In 1851 the diocese had the following rural deaneries:{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/#layer|title=Historical Maps}}
- Barton (Cambs)
- Bedford (Beds)
- Blackbourn (Suffolk)
- Bourn (Cambs)
- Cambridge (Cambs)
- Camps (Cambs)
- Chesterton (Cambs)
- Clapham (Beds)
- Clare (Suffolk)
- Dunstable (Beds)
- Eaton (Beds)
- Ely (Cambs)
- Fleete (Beds)
- Fordham (Cambs/Suffolk)
- Leightonstone (Hunts)
- St Ives (Hunts)
- St Neots (Hunts)
- Shefford (Beds)
- Shingay (Cambs)
- Sudbury (Suffolk)
- Thedwastre (Suffolk)
- Thingoe (Suffolk)
- Wisbech (Cambs)
- Yaxley (Hunts)
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Archdeaconries !Rural Deaneries !Paid clergy !Churches !Population !People/clergy !People/church !Churches/clergy |
| rowspan="15" |Diocese of Ely
| rowspan="7" |Archdeaconry of Cambridge |Deanery of Bourn |7 |27 |27,913 |3,988 |1,034 |3.86 |
| Deanery of Cambridge North
|19 |16 |69,975 |3,683 |4,373 |0.84 |
| Deanery of Cambridge South
|24 |16 |62,428 |2,601 |3,902 |0.67 |
| Deanery of Fordham and Quy
|7 |27 |29,433 |4,205 |1,090 |3.86 |
| Deanery of Granta
|10 |25 |33,096 |3,310 |1,324 |2.5 |
| Deanery of North Stowe
|10 |16 |47,138 |4,714 |2,946 |1.6 |
| Deanery of Shingay
|6 |19 |21,269 |3,545 |1,119 |3.17 |
| rowspan="8" |Archdeaconry of Huntingdon & Wisbech
|Deanery of Ely |11* |19* |58,230 |5,294 |3,065 |1.73 |
| Deanery of Fincham and Feltwell
|5 |33 |36,708 |7,342 |1,112 |6.6 |
| Deanery of Huntingdon
|13 |40 |57,830 |4,448 |1,446 |3.08 |
| Deanery of March
|4 |15 |58,032 |14,508 |3,869 |3.75 |
| Deanery of St Ives
|6 |15 |44,362 |7,394 |2,957 |2.5 |
| Deanery of St Neots
|8 |17 |37,630 |4,704 |2,214 |2.13 |
| Deanery of Wisbech Lynn Marshland
|8 |24 |65,902 |8,238 |2,746 |3 |
| Deanery of Yaxley
|13 |20 |77,384 |5,953 |3,869 |1.54 |
| colspan="3" |Total/average
|151 |329 |727,330 |4,817 |2,211 |2.18 |
Churches
= Outside deanery structures =
| class="wikitable"
!Benefice !Church !Founded (building) |
| Cathedra{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/places/-207/the-holy-and-undivided-trinity|title=CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY|website=www.crockford.org.ukn|access-date=2018-09-13}}
|Cathedral of the Holy & Undivided Trinity, Ely |Ancient (Medieval) |N/A |
| Ely (St Peter) Proprietary Chapel{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/people/31912/canon-paul-douglas-andrews|title=Canon Paul Douglas ANDREWS|website=www.crockford.org.uk|access-date=2019-10-24}}
|1890 |N/A |
= Bourn Deanery =
| class="wikitable"
!Benefice !Church !Founded (building) !Population served[https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=67bce0ed36dd4ee0af7a16bc079aa09a Church of England parish map] arcgis.com |
| Cambourne{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/places/7054/the-benefice-of-cambourne-(no-dedication)|title=The Benefice of Cambourne (No Dedication)|website=www.crockford.org.uk|access-date=2018-09-13}}
|Cambourne Church (LEP) |1990s |8,227 |
| rowspan="11" |The Lordsbridge Team{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/places/7250/the-benefice-of-lordsbridge-team,-the,-comprising-barton,-caldecote,-comberton,-coton,-dry-drayton,|title=The Benefice of Lordsbridge Team, The, Comprising Barton, Caldecote, Comberton, Coton, Dry Drayton, Great Eversden, Hardwick, Harlton, Haslingfield, Little Eversden, and Toft|website=www.crockford.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-09-13}}
|St Peter, Barton |Medieval | rowspan="11" |12,333 |
| St Michael & All Angels, Caldecote
|Medieval |
| St Mary, Comberton
|Medieval |
| St Peter, Coton
|Medieval |
| SS Peter & Paul, Dry Drayton
|Medieval |
| St Mary, Great Eversden
|Medieval |
| St Mary, Hardwick
|Medieval |
| Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Harlton
|Medieval |
| All Saints, Haslingfield
|Medieval |
| St Helen, Little Eversden
|Medieval |
| St Andrew, Toft
|Medieval |
| rowspan="15" |Papworth{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/places/7281/the-benefice-of-papworth-(st-peter)|title=The Benefice of Papworth (St Peter)|website=www.crockford.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-09-13}}
|SS Helena & Mary, Bourn |Medieval | rowspan="15" |7,353 |
| St Peter, Boxworth
|Medieval |
| St Andrew, Caxton
|Medieval |
| St Mary, Conington
|Medieval |
| St James, Croxton
|Medieval |
| Holy Trinity, Elsworth
|Medieval |
| SS Pandionia & John the Baptist, Eltisley
|Medieval |
| St Botolph, Graveley
|Medieval |
| All Saints & St Andrew, Kingston
|Medieval |
| All Saints, Knapwell
|Medieval |
| All Saints, Lolworth
|Medieval |
| St Mary the Virgin, Longstowe
|Medieval |
| St Peter, Papworth Everard
|Medieval |
| St Michael, Toseland
|Medieval |
| Holy Cross, Yelling
|Medieval |
== Closed churches in this area ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Founded (building) !Closed |
| St Mary on the White Hill, Haslingfield
|Medieval |
| St Mary, Childerley
|Medieval |
| St John the Baptist, Papworth St Agnes
|Medieval |1976 |
= Cambridge North Deanery =
== Churches in this area no longer used for regular worship ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Founded (building) !Out of use |
| Michaelhouse, Cambridge
|Medieval |c. 1908 |
| St Peter (by the Castle), Cambridge
|Medieval | |
| All Saints (in the Jewry), Cambridge
|Medieval (resited 1863) |1973 |
| Holy Sepulchre (The Round Church)
|Medieval |c. 1994 |
| Leper Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, Stourbridge
|Medieval | |
| St Andrew the Less, Cambridge
|Medieval | |
| All Saints by the Castle
|Medieval |
| St John (the Baptist) Zachary
|Medieval |
| St John's Mission Chapel, Wellington St.
|1874 |
= Cambridge South Deanery =
1rededicated and rebuilt 1352; previously St Peter's-outside-Trumpington-Gates
== Churches in this area no longer used for regular worship ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Founded (building) !Out of use |
| St Anne's Chapel, Cambridge
|c. 1350 |
| St Stephen, Cambridge
|pre-1948 (1962) |2010 |
= Ely Deanery =
== Closed churches in the area ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Founded (building) !Out of use |
| St Etheldreda, Queen Adelaide
|1883 |1968 |
| Holy Trinity, Pymoor
|1865 |
| St Peter, Prickwillow
|1866 |2008 |
| St John the Evangelist, Little Ouse
|1866 |
| St Matthew, Littleport{{Cite web|url=http://oldchurchhouse.co.uk/littleport.html|title=The Old Church House - Littleport, Cambridgeshire|website=oldchurchhouse.co.uk|access-date=2019-10-25}}
|1878 | |
| St Owen's, Third Drove, Downham Fen
|1895 |
| St Nicholas, Barway
|Medieval |
= Fincham and Feltwell Deanery =
1services held in village hall
== Closed churches in the area ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Founded (building) !Out of use |
| St Andrew, South Runcton |
= Fordham and Quy Deanery =
1original chapel on site dedicated to St John
== Closed churches in this area ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Founded (building) !Closed |
| St Andrew, Burwell
|Medieval |
| All Saints, Fulbourn
|Medieval |
| St Cyriac and St Julitta, Swaffham Prior
|Medieval (1809) |1903 |
| All Saints, Silverley
|Medieval |C16th |
| St Nicholas, (Stow cum) Quy
|Ancient parish church |
| All Saints, Willingham near Carlton
|Medieval |
| St Etheldreda's Chapel, Reach
|Medieval |
| St John's Hospital Chapel, Ashley with Silverley
|Medieval |1845, dem. 19561 |
| Holy Trinity, Saxon Street
|1877 |
1used as parish church from C16th until 1845
All Saints' church, Newmarket, was in this portion of the diocese until it was transferred to Suffolk in 1889.{{Cite web |last=GENUKI |title=Genuki: Newmarket, Cambridgeshire |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CAM/Newmarket |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=www.genuki.org.uk |language=en}} It was a chapelry to Woodditton until the 19th century.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allsaintsnewmarket.org/history.htm|title=Church History - All Saints Church Newmarket}} The chapelry of St Nicholas, Landwade, was also in this portion of the diocese until it was transferred to Suffolk.{{Cite web |last=GENUKI |title=Genuki: Landwade, Cambridgeshire |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CAM/Landwade |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.genuki.org.uk |language=en}}
= Granta Deanery =
File:Granta deanery parishes.png
== Closed churches in this area ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Location !Founded (building) !Closed |
| St John the Baptist, Duxford
|Medieval |1874 |
= Huntingdon Deanery =
== Closed churches in the area ==
| class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" |Church !Civil parish !Founded (building) !Closed |
| St Andrew, Woodwalton
|Medieval |pre-1979 |
| St Andrew, Steeple Gidding
|Medieval | |
| St Mary, Woolley
|Medieval |
| All Saints, Wyton
|Medieval |
| All Saints, Coppingford
|Medieval |
| Holy Trinity, Huntingdon
|C14th |
| St Andrew, Huntingdon
|C16th |
| St Benedict, Huntingdon
|1668 |
| St Botolph, Huntingdon
|? |
| St Clement, Huntingdon
|C14th |
| St Edmund, Huntingdon
|1312 |
| St George, Huntingdon
|C17th |
| St Germain, Huntingdon
|C17th |
| St John the Baptist, Huntingdon |
| St Lawrence, Huntingdon
|C13th |
| St Martin, Huntingdon
|1343 |
| St Michael, Huntingdon
|C16th |
| St Nicholas, Huntingdon
|? |
| St Peter, Huntingdon
|C16th |
St Nicholas' Church, Swineshead, was historically in this portion of the Diocese of Ely, but moved to the Diocese of St Albans when it was transferred from Huntingdonshire to Bedfordshire.{{Cite web |last=GENUKI |title=Genuki: Swineshead, Huntingdonshire |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HUN/Swineshead |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=www.genuki.org.uk |language=en}} St James the Great, Thurning, was historically in this are, but moved to the Diocese of Peterborough when the parish was transferred wholly to Northamptonshire (the parish church was always in Northamptonshire).{{Cite web |last=GENUKI |title=Genuki: Thurning, Huntingdonshire |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HUN/Thurning |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=www.genuki.org.uk |language=en}}
= March Deanery =
1medieval chapel of St James demolished. Church of St Mary built 1854, demolished 1985. Church room built 2012.
== Closed churches in the area ==
| class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" |Church !Founded (building) !Closed |
| Eastrea Chapel
|Medieval |
| Eldernell Chapel
|Medieval |
| Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, West Fen, March
|1891 |
| St Stephen's Chapel, Angle Bridge
|1877 |
| St Eanswyth, Welches Dam
|1909 |
| St Peter's Mission, Slade End, Chatteris
|1906 |
= North Stowe Deanery =
== Closed churches in this area ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Founded (building) !Closed |
| St Etheldreda, Histon
|Medieval |
| St Michael, Longstanton
|Medieval |1973 |
| St James' Chapel, Howes, Girton
|Medieval |
= St Ives Deanery =
== Closed churches in the area ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Location !Founded (building) !Closed |
| St James, Little Raveley
|Medieval | |
| St James' Chapel, Earith
|Medieval |
| St Mary's Chapel, Earith Bridge
|Medieval |
= St Neots Deanery =
== Closed churches in this area ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Location !Founded (building) !Closed |
| St Denis, East Hatley
|Medieval |1974 |
| St George, Hatley St George
|Medieval |c. 2010 |
| St Peter, Offord D'Arcy
|Medieval |1978 |
= Shingay Deanery =
== Closed churches in this area ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Founded (building) !Closed |
| St Mary's, Clopton
|Medieval |C17th |
| St Mary's, Shingay
|Medieval (1697) |C18th |
| St Swithun's Chapel, Abington Pigotts
|Medieval |
| St Mary Magdalene, Kneesworth
|Medieval |
| St James' Chapel, Redreth, nr. G. Morden
|Medieval |
= Wisbech Lynn Marshland Deanery =
== Closed churches in this area ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Location !Founded (building) !Closed |
| St Mary in the Marsh, Newton
|Medieval |
| St Etheldreda, Coldham
|1876 |
| St Mary Magdalene, Guyhirn
|1878 |
| Octagon Chapel, Wisbech
|1831 |
| Guyhirn Chapel
|Medieval (1660) |1960 |
| St John the Baptist, Parson Drove
|Medieval |1974 |
| Corpus Christi, Murrow
|Medieval (1857) |
| St Peter, Wiggenhall St Peter
|Medieval |
| St Mary the Virgin, Wiggenhall
|Medieval |
| St Mary, Islington
|Medieval |? |
| St Andrew, Walpole
|Medieval |? |
= Yaxley Deanery =
== Closed churches in this area ==
| class="wikitable"
!Church !Location !Founded (building) !Closed |
| All Saints, Botolph Bridge
|Medieval |
| All Saints, Conington
|Medieval | |
| All Saints, Denton
|Medieval |1960s |
| St Mary Magdalene, Caldecote
|Medieval |
| Washingley Parish Church
|Medieval |
| St Andrew, Sawtry
|Medieval |1879 |
| St Mary's, Sawtry Judith
|Medieval |
Diocesan news publications
Dedications
= Medieval churches (and ''chapelries'') =
- All Saints: Barrington, Botolph Bridge, Brington, Broughton, Buckworth, Cambridge (x2), Castle Camps, Conington (Hunts), Coppingford, Cottenham, Covington, Croydon, Denton, Ellington, Elm, Elton, Fulbourn, Grafham, Hamerton, Harston, Hartford, Haslingfield, Horseheath, Huntingdon, Kirtling, Knapwell, Landbeach, Little Shelford, Lolworth, Longstanton, Melbourn, Milton, Morborne, [Newmarket], Offord Cluny, Pidley-cum-Fenton, Rampton, St Ives, Sawtry, Shepreth, Silverley, Teversham, Thriplow,{{Cite web |title=Parishes: Thriplow {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol8/pp238-248 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} Tilbrook, Willingham (near Carlton), Winwick, Woodditton,{{Cite web |title=Woodditton: Church {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol10/pp95-97 |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} Wyton
- All Saints & St Andrew: Kingston
- Assumption of Mary: Harlton, West Wickham{{Cite web |title=Parishes: West Wickham {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp113-124 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}
- Corpus Christi: Murrow
- Holy Cross: Bury, Stuntney, Yelling
- Holy Sepulchre: Cambridge
- Holy Trinity: Balsham, Bottisham, Cambridge, Elsworth, Ely, Great Paxton, Haddenham, Hildersham, Huntingdon, Meldreth, Orton Longueville
- St Andrew: Abbots Ripton, Alwalton, Burwell, Cambridge (x2), Caxton, Cherry Hinton, Chesterton (Cambs), Girton, Grantchester,{{Cite web |title=Parishes: Grantchester {{!}} British History Online |url=https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol5/pp198-214 |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=prod.british-history.ac.uk}} Great Staughton, Histon, Huntingdon, Isleham, Kimbolton, Oakington, Orwell, Sawtry, Soham, Stapleford, Steeple Gidding, Sutton, Swavesey, Toft, West Wratting, Whittlesey, Whittlesford,{{Cite web |title=Parishes: Whittlesford {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp263-276#h3-s5 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} Wimpole, Witchford, Wood Walton
- St Anne: Cambridge
- St Augustine: Burrough Green, Woodston
- St Bartholomew: Great Gransden, Great Stukeley
- St Benedict Cambridge, Huntingdon
- St Botolph: Cambridge, Graveley, Huntingdon, Stow Longa
- St Catherine: Litlington, Newton-in-the-Isle
- St Clement: Cambridge, Huntingdon
- SS Cyriac & Julitta: Swaffham Prior
- St Denis: East Hatley
- St Edmund: Emneth, Hauxton, Huntingdon
- St Edward the Martyr: Cambridge
- St Etheldreda: Histon, Impington,{{Cite web |title=Impington: Church {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol9/pp136-137 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} Reach
- St George: Hatley St George, Huntingdon, Littleport, Thetford
- St Germain: Huntingdon
- St Giles: Barham, Cambridge, Holme, Tydd St Giles
- St Helen: Bourn,{{Cite web |title=Parishes: Bourn {{!}} British History Online |url=https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol5/pp4-16 |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=prod.british-history.ac.uk}} Colne, Folksworth, Little Eversden
- St James: Benwick,{{Cite web |last=blosslyn |date=2015-03-26 |title=Village Sign & Church – Benwick, Cambridgeshire |url=https://blosslynspage.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/village-sign-church-benwick-cambridgeshire/ |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=Echoes of the Past |language=en}} Croxton, Earith, Hemingford Grey, Howes, Little Paxton, Little Raveley, Newton,{{Cite web |title=Parishes: Hauxton and Newton {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol8/pp194-207 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} Redreth, Spaldwick, Stretham, [Thurning], Waresley
- St John the Baptist: Ashley (hospital chapel), Cambridge, Duxford, Holywell-cum-Needingworth, Huntingdon, Keyston, Pampisford, Parson Drove, Reach, Somersham, Stanground, Tadlow,{{Cite web |title=Parishes: Tadlow {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol8/pp127-135 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} Wistow, Woodhurst
- St John the Evangelist: Little Gidding, Little Wilbraham, Waterbeach
- St Lawrence: Bythorn, Diddington, Foxton, Huntingdon, Wicken
- St Leonard: Downham, Great Catworth, Leverington, Southoe
- St Margaret: Abbotsley, Chippenham, Fletton, Hemingford Abbots, Little Staughton,http://www.littlestaughtonchurch.org.uk/history.php {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}} Upton
- St Martin: Huntingdon, Little Stukeley, Witcham
- St Mary: Ashley, Bartlow, Bluntisham, Brinkley, Buckden, Burwell, Cambridge, Cheveley, Childerley, Clopton, Comberton, Conington (Cambs), Doddington, Dullingham, Earith Bridge, Ely, Everton, Eynesbury, Farcet, Fen Ditton, Fen Drayton, Fordham,{{Cite web |title=Fordham: Church {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol10/pp412-417 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} Fowlmere, Gamlingay, Godmanchester, Great Abington, Great Eversden, Great Shelford, Guilden Morden, Haddon, Hardwick, Haslingfield, Hinxton,{{Cite web |title=Parishes: Hinxton {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp220-230#h3-s5 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} Houghton, Huntingdon, Ickleton,{{Cite web |title=Parishes: Ickleton {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp230-246#h3-s5 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} Leighton Bromswold, Linton, Little Abington, Longstowe, Mepal, Newton-in-the-Isle, Orton Waterville, Over, St Neots, Sawston, Sawtry Judith, Shingay, Shudy Camps, Stow, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior, Wendy,{{Cite web |last=GENUKI |title=Genuki: Wendy Cum Shingay, Cambridgeshire |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CAM/WendyCumShingay |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=www.genuki.org.uk |language=en}} Westley Waterless, Weston Colville, Whaddon, Whittlesey, Wisbech, Woolley
- St Mary Magdalene: Brampton, Caldecote (Hunts), Hilton, Kneesworth, Madingley, Stilton, Stourbridge, Warboys
- St Matthew: Willingham{{Cite web |title=Willingham: Church {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol9/pp409-411 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}
- St Michael: Abington Pigotts, Caldecote (Cambs), Cambridge, Chesterton (Hunts), Chettisham, Great Gidding, Huntingdon, Longstanton, Toseland
- St Nicholas: Arrington, Barway, Glatton, Great Wilbraham, Hail Weston, Huntingdon, Kennett, [Landwade], Manea, Quy, [Swineshead], Trumpington{{Cite web |title=Parishes: Trumpington {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol8/pp248-267#h3-s5 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}
- St Pandionia: Eltisley{{Cite web |title=Parishes: Eltisley {{!}} British History Online |url=https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol5/pp46-59 |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=prod.british-history.ac.uk}}
- St Peter: Babraham, Barton, Boxworth, Cambridge (x2), Carlton, Coton, Duxford, Easton, Horningsea, Huntingdon, Kings Ripton, Molesworth, Offord D'Arcy, Old Hurst, Papworth Everard, Papworth St Agnes,{{Cite web |title=Papworth St. Agnes: Church {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol9/pp372-374 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} Snailwell, Stetchworth, Upwood, Wentworth, Wilburton, Wisbech, Yaxley
- St Peter-ad-Vincula: Coveney
- SS Peter & Paul: Alconbury, Bassingbourn, Chatteris, Dry Drayton, Fenstanton, Little Gransden, Steeple Morden
- St Radegund: Cambridge
- St Swithin: Abington Pigotts, Old Weston
- St Thomas Becket: Ramsey
- St Vigor: Fulbourn
- St Wendreda: March
- No dedication/dedication unknown: Eastrea, Eldernell, Guyhirn, Washingley
= Post-medieval churches =
- Christ Church: Cambridge (1837), Christchurch (1864), Ely (2016), Huntingdon (2018), Orton Goldhay (c. 2000)
- Christ the Redeemer: Cambridge (C20th)
- Christ the Servant King: Hampton (2014)
- Emmanuel: Southea (1872)
- Good Shepherd: Cambridge (1958)
- Holy Cross: Cambridge (c. 1950)
- Holy Trinity: Coates (1839), Nordelph (1865), Pymoor (1865), Saxon Street (1877)
- Holy Trinity & St Etheldreda: Reach (1861)
- Pathfinder Church: Northstowe (2021)
- St Augustine: Cambridge (1898), Wisbech (1868)
- St Barnabas: Cambridge (1869), Huntingdon (1969)
- St Eanswyth: Welches Dam (1909)
- St Etheldreda: Coldham (1876), Queen Adelaide (1883)
- St George: Chesterton (Cambs) (1938), Six Mile Bottom (1890s)
- St James: Cambridge (1955), Lode (1853)
- St John the Evangelist: Cambridge (x2) (1874, 1891), Little Ouse (1866), March (1872), Orchard Park (2013)
- St Luke: Cambridge (1863)
- St Mark: Friday Bridge (1860), Newnham (1870)
- St Martin: Cambridge (1932)
- St Mary: Benwick (1854), March (1873), Ramsey St Mary (1858), Welney (C17th)
- St Mary Magdalene: Guyhirn (1878), March (1891)
- St Matthew: Cambridge (1866), Littleport (1878)
- St Michael: Stanground (C20th)
- St Owen: Downham Fen (1895)
- St Paul: Cambridge (1841), Gorefield (1870)
- St Peter: Chatteris (1906), Ely (1890), March (1880), Prickwillow (1866), Wimblington (1874)
- St Philip: Cambridge (1889)
- St Stephen: Angle Bridge (1877), Cambridge (c. 1940)
- St Thomas: Cambridge (1980), Pondersbridge (C19th)
- No dedication/dedication unknown: Bar Hill (1967), Cambourne (1990s), Wisbech (1831)
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://www.cofe.anglican.org/info/statistics/churchstatistics2002 Church of England Statistics 2002] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203171913/http://www.cofe.anglican.org/info/statistics/churchstatistics2002 |date=3 February 2007 }}
- [http://www.cofe.anglican.org/info/statistics/churchstats2008/diocesanstatistics2008.htm Summary diocesan statistics 2008/09]
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