The Archdeaconry of Bodmin is one of two in the Anglican Diocese of Truro and covers the eastern part of the diocese.

It is the seat of the Church in Wales Bishop of Llandaff, whose diocese covers the most populous area of South Wales.

This diocese covers the entire state of South Carolina.

The diocese covers much of the county of Lancashire and has its see in the town of Blackburn, where the seat of the diocese is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary.

The diocese covers the extreme west of Yorkshire, and has its see in the city of Bradford where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter.

The diocese covers an area of and spans the counties of Derbyshire ( excluding the High Peak and Chesterfield districts ), Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire ( excluding the district of Bassetlaw ) and North Lincolnshire.

The diocese covers the City and County of Bristol and the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Wiltshire, an area of.

The present diocese covers the County of Essex including those parts of Essex added to Greater London on 1 April 1965 and Ballingdon-with-Brundon, transferred to Suffolk and Great / Little Chishill and Heydon, transferred to Cambridgeshire in 1894.

The present diocese covers most of the County of Warwickshire.

The diocese was formed from part of the Diocese of Southwell in 1927 under King George V and roughly covers the county of Derbyshire.

The diocese covers the western half of the County of Surrey.

The diocese covers the counties of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire and parts of the London Borough of Barnet.

The diocese at present covers the County of Northumberland and the Alston Moor area of Cumbria.

The diocese based in Wakefield in West Yorkshire, covers Wakefield, Barnsley, Kirklees and Calderdale.

The diocese covers the City and County of Swansea and the ancient counties of Brecknockshire and Radnorshire.

The diocese covers an area of 76, 562 km², covering all of the southern provinces of Thailand, including Prachuap Khiri Khan as its northernmost province.

The diocese covers the historic county of Essex, an area of comprising the non-metropolitan county of Essex, the unitary authorities of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock, and from Greater London, the London Boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest, matching Essex's historic boundaries and the Anglican Diocese of Chelmsford.

The diocese covers an area of of the counties and unitary authorities of Cheshire, Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin with parts of Derbyshire, Halton, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Warrington.

The present diocese covers an area of 7, 700 km² of the counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, and Durham.

The diocese covers 4, 997 km² and consists of the counties of East and West Sussex and Surrey outside the Greater London Boroughs.

The diocese covers an area of and consists of the County of Cumbria together with the Hundreds of Lonsdale, Amounderness and Fylde in the north west of Lancashire.

The diocese covers an area of of the counties of the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire together with the City of York.

The diocese covers an area of and consists of the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset.

The diocese currently covers an area of and consists a large part of Greater Manchester and adjacent parts of Lancashire.

The most usual shabi term for the geographic area of a bishop's authority and ministry, the diocese, began as part of the structure of the Roman Empire under Diocletian.

Some Anglican suffragans are given the responsibility for a geographical area within the diocese ( for example, the Bishop of Stepney is an area bishop within the Diocese of London ).

Boniface returned to the continent the next year, and this time went straight to Rome, where Pope Gregory II renamed him " Boniface ", for the ( legendary ) fourth-century martyr Boniface of Tarsus, and appointed him missionary bishop for Germania -- he became a bishop without a diocese for an area that lacked any church organization.

Since much of that area had been only recently conquered by Russia from the Ottoman Empire, and a large number of Orthodox Greek settlers had been invited to settle in the region, the Imperial Government picked a renowned Greek scholar, Eugenios Voulgaris to preside over the new diocese.

Thus, the use of the term " diocese " referring to geography is the most equivalent in the United Methodist Church, whereas each annual conference is part of one episcopal area ( though that area may contain more than one conference ).

Kaller was also appointed apostolic visitator to the then 8, 000 Catholic faithful in Memelland, a Lithuanian-annexed formerly East Prussian area, whose then four Catholic parishes had been seceded from Ermland diocese and subsequently formed part of the Territorial Prelature of Memel ( Klaipėda ); ; ; ) existing between 1926 and 1991.

Addressing the Polish authorities in the annexed area of his diocese Kaller declared that he wants to continue his episcopate within Poland, however, the officials said it was neither him nor them, but Warsaw to decide that.

Hlond replied that Kaller was no Polish citizen and thus unacceptable as bishop in the Polish area, avoiding the term state, since Ermland diocese was only Polish-occupied German territory.

Hoppe held that post until Pope Paul VI terminated the apostolic administration of Ermland diocese and finally appointed again a bishop to the see on 28 June 1972, then named Warmia ( Polish for Ermland ), however, not comprising the former diocesan area within the Soviet Union.

However, this left a large area as a Diocese to govern, and St David's began to deteriorate as the centre of the diocese, being nowhere near the centre – the Bishop ’ s residence had been at Carmarthen since the 16th century, but administration and the focus moved from the Cathedral to the Diocese ’ s now largest town.

It is around this time that the town of La Seu d ' Urgell ( in Catalonia, but outside of Cerdanya ) started to replace Julia Libyca as the main center of population in that area of northern Catalonia, and in the 6th century when the diocese ( bishopric ) of Urgell was founded, Cerdanya was inside its limits.

While at York, Wilfrid was considered the " bishop of the Northumbrian peoples "; Bede records that Wilfrid's diocese was contiguous with the area ruled by Oswiu.

The diocese is the basic church body that comprises all the parishes of a determined geographical area.

Consequently by the 11th century, a hierarchy of minsters became apparent ; cathedral churches, or head minsters having pre-eminence within a diocese ; surviving old minsters being pre-eminent within an area broadly equivalent to an administrative hundred ; while newer lesser minsters and field churches were increasingly proliferating on local estates.

It also guaranteed the future of the prince-bishop and the diocese ; the area was to be exclusively Roman Catholic.

* A Prefect Apostolic is a cleric ( sometimes a Titular Bishop, but normally a priest ) in charge of an apostolic prefecture, a type of Roman Catholic territorial jurisdiction fulfilling the functions of a diocese, usually in a missionary area or in a country that is anti-religious, such as the People's Republic of China, but that is not yet given the status of regular diocese.

For ecclesiastical ( i. e. Church of England ) purposes, several areas of England were part of Welsh dioceses until disestablishment of the Church in Wales in 1920, the area around Oswestry, Shropshire — part of St Asaph diocese — being the largest.

The area later was part of the lands of the diocese at Chur.

Tapachula became a diocese separate from Chiapas in 1957 covering the entire Chiapas coast area.

The count-bishops then struggled to defend their area against the Zähringer and then the dukes of Savoy, so that the medieval history of the Valais is inextricably linked with that of the diocese of Sion.

In 1133 Carlisle was made the see of a new diocese, identical with the area of the earldom.