GLOUCESTER.
��X HE diocese of Gloucester, until it was united with that of Bristol by an order in council dated 5th Oct. 1836^* contained all Gloucestershire, (except the cha- pelriesof Iccomb' and "Oowhoneybourne/"' which were in Worcester diocese,) the deanery of Bristol, and the parish of Kingswood in Wiltshire. It had one arch- deaconry, that of Gloucester, divided into the deaneries of Gloucester, Cirencester, Fairford, Hawkesbury? Dursley, Campden- cum Blockley, a peculiar; Stow, Stonehouse, Winchecorabe, and the deanery of the Forest, which was taken out of the diocese of Here- ford, when the see of Gloucester was erected by king Henry VHI ; the archdeacon of Gloucester, however, had no jurisdiction in the deanery of the Forest, as the archdeacon of Hereford at that time would not give up his right ; consequently, until the order in council above mentioned, he maintained his jurisdic- tion in part and, under the bishop of Gloucester,
- Other schemes for the union ter and Bristol,
of the see of Bristol with that of 2 The parish of Shenington,
Llandaff, or with that of Bath in the deanery of Campden, in
and Wells, had been before pro- the county of Gloucester, but
posed by the Ecclesiastical Com- locally situate between the coun-
missioners. ties of Warwick and Oxford, is
' This parish, by an order in by the before-mentioned order in
council 19th July 1837, was de- council taken out of the diocese
tached from the diocese of Wor- of Gloucester and Bristol and
cester, and placed in the arch- placed in that ofWorcester, in the
deaconry of Gloucester, in the deanery of Kineton. The parish
diocese of Gloucester and Bris- of Widford, in the diocese of Glou-
tol. By this order the deaneries cester and archdeaconry of Glou-
of Cricklade and Malmesbury cester, is transferred to the dio-
were tranferred from the diocese cese of Oxford and archdeaconry
of Salisbury to that of Glouces- of Oxford.
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