WORCESTER. 1 HE diocese of Worcester, until the alterations effected by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1836 and 1837, contained all Worcestershire, except some parishes in Burford deanery, which belonged to Hereford; a third part of Warwickshire ; two parishes in Staffordshire, one in Shropshire, and one in Gloucestershire ; the whole of which was under the jurisdiction of the arch- deacon of Worcester. By order in council dated 22nd Dec. 1 836, the arch- deaconry of Coventry was detached from the dioceso of Coventry and Lichfield and permanently annexed and united to the diocese of Worcester ; and by an- other order in council, dated 19th July 1837, the whole parish of Shenington in the county of Gloucester, hut locally situated between the counties of Warwick and Oxford, and forming part of the diocese of Glou- cester and Bristol, was detached from that diocese and united to the diocese of Worcester and arch- deaconry of Worcester ; and the whole parish of Iccomb in the county of Worcester and archdeaconry of Worcester, but insulated in the county of Gloucester, was detached from the diocese of Worcester and united to that of Gloucester and Ih-istol, and included in the arclideaconry of Gloucester. Tlic cathedral has a dean, ten prebendaries or major canons, &c.
