Diocese Of Wakefield

The Diocese of Wakefield was established in 1888.

The churches in the district fall within the Diocese of Wakefield and their parishes are grouped into 3 Rural Deaneries:

• The Rural Deanery of Brighouse & Elland:
  • Coley
  • Greetland & West Vale
  • Lightcliffe
  • Northowram
  • Rastrick [St John the Divine]
  • Rastrick [St Matthew]
  • Stainland with Outlane
  • St Martin, Brighouse
  • Hove Edge
  • Clifton
  • St Mary the Virgin, Elland
  • All Saints, Elland

• The Rural Deanery of Calder Valley:
  • Erringden [Mytholmroyd & Cragg Vale]
  • Hebden Bridge
  • Heptonstall
  • Luddenden with Luddendenfoot
  • Sowerby
  • Cornholme
  • Todmorden & Walsden

• The Rural Deanery of Halifax:
  • Claremount
  • Halifax [All Saints]
  • Halifax [All Souls]
  • Halifax [Holy Trinity & St Jude]
  • Halifax [St Augustine]
  • Halifax [St Hilda]
  • King Cross
  • Mount Pellon
  • Ovenden
  • Ripponden with Rishworth
  • Barkisland with West Scammonden
  • Siddal
  • Southowram
  • Sowerby Bridge with Norland
  • Warley
  • Holy & Undivided Trinity
  • St John the Baptist
  • Bradshaw
  • Holmfield
  • Illingworth
  • Mixenden

In July 2013, the General Synod approved a scheme to dissolve the three existing dioceses of Bradford, Ripon & Leeds and Wakefield and replace them with a single new diocese of Leeds, with a working name of West Yorkshire & the Dales

See Diocese of Ripon, Diocese of West Yorkshire & the Dales, Diocese of Halifax and Wakefield, West Yorkshire

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