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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.

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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.[3]

Today the diocese covers an area of 1,507 square miles (3,900 km2). It has a population of 705,000 and comprises 209 benefices, 303 parishes and 335 churches with 145 stipendiary parochial clergy.

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Bishops

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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:

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.[9][10][11][12]

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Archdeaconries and deaneries

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Map of deaneries in Ely Diocese, coloured by archdeaconry (Huntingdon & Wisbech, north; Cambridge, south). Key: (1) Wisbech Lynn Marshland (2) Fincham & Feltwell (3) March (4) Yaxley (5) St Ives (6) Ely (7) Huntingdon (8) St Neots (9) Fordham & Quy (10) North Stowe (11) Bourn (12) Cambridge North (13) Cambridge South (14) Granta (15) Shingay

The archdeaconry of Wisbech (comprising the deaneries of Ely, March, Wisbech, Fincham and Lynn Marshland, which before 1915 were not in any archdeaconry) was active from 1915 to 2005. The following changes to deaneries have taken place:

  • in 1884 the two deaneries of Ely and Wisbech (which were not under any archdeaconry, but were commonly known as the Archdeaconry of the Isle of Ely) were reorganised into the three of Ely, March and Wisbech.
  • In 1914 the deaneries of Fincham and Lynn Marshland were transferred from the Archdeaconry of Lynn in the Diocese of Norwich to the Diocese of Ely.
  • in 1976 the deanery of Shelford was established among others.
  • In 2002 the deaneries of Fordham and Quy merged in 2002 to form the deanery of Fordham and Quy, and the deaneries of Wisbech and Lynn Marshland merged to form the deanery of Wisbech Lynn Marshland
  • in 2004, the deaneries of Fincham and Feltwell were merged to form the deanery of Fincham and Feltwell, and the deanery of Leightonstone was merged into the deanery of Huntingdon.
  • in 2006, the deanery of Cambridge was split in 2006 into the deaneries of Cambridge North and Cambridge South.
  • In 2009 the deaneries of Shelford and Linton were merged to form the deanery of Granta.

Deaneries in 1851

In 1851 the diocese had the following rural deaneries:[13]

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Churches

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Extra-parochial places

Archdeaconry of Cambridge

Deanery of Bourn

  • Benefice and Parish of Cambourne (population 12,088): Cambourne Church Local Ecumenical Partnership (1999)
  • Benefice of Lordsbridge
    • Parish of Barton (population 851): St Peter's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Caldecote (population 2,034): St Michael and All Angels' Church (medieval) --- St Mary's Church, Childerley (medieval, closed C16th)
    • Parish of Comberton (population 2,266): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Coton (population 944): St Peter's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Dry Drayton (population 700): SS Peter & Paul's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Great Eversden (population 235): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Hardwick (population 2,678): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Harlton (population 311): Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Haslingfield (population 1,546): All Saints' Church (medieval) --- St Mary's Chapel, White Hill, Haslingfield (medieval, closed C16th)
    • Parish of Little Eversden (population 567): St Helen's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Toft (population 563): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of Papworth:
    • Parish of Bourn (population 988): SS Helena & Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Boxworth (population 215): St Peter's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Caxton (population 600): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Conington (population 138): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Croxton (population 160): St James's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Elsworth (population 689): Holy Trinity Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Eltisley (population 386): SS Pandionia & John the Baptist's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Graveley (population 276): St Botolph's Church (medieval) --- St John the Baptist's Church, Papworth St Agnes (medieval, closed 1976)
    • Parish of Kingston (population 236): All Saints & St Andrew's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Knapwell (population 88): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Lolworth (population 161): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Longstowe (population 207): St Mary the Virgin's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Papworth Everard (population 3,840): St Peter's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Toseland (population 89): St Michael's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Yelling (population 323): Holy Cross Church (medieval)

Deanery of Cambridge North

  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge Holy Cross (population 4,452): Christ the Redeemer Church (C20th)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St Andrew the Great (population 3,193): St Andrew the Great (medieval, rebuilt 1843) --- Holy Sepulchre Church (The Round Church) (medieval, out of regular use c. 1994) --- All Saints' Old Church (medieval, demolished 1863) --- All Saints' New Church (1863, redundant 1973)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St Clement (population 469): St Clement's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St Mary the Great with St Michael (population 730): St Mary the Great (medieval) --- St Michael's Church (medieval, closed for worship C20th)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St Matthew (population 3,930): St Matthew's Church (1866)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge Ascension (population 18,783): St Giles' Church (medieval) --- St Augustine of Canterbury's Church (1898) --- St Luke the Evangelist's Local Ecumenical Partnership (1863, rebuilt 1874) --- St Peter's Church (by the Castle) (medieval, redundant C20th) --- All Saints by the Castle (medieval, closed 1365)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge Christ Church with St Andrew the Less (population 5,758): Christ Church (1839) --- St Andrew the Less (medieval, closed 1839) --- Leper Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, Barnwell (medieval, closed C16th) --- St John's Mission Chapel, Wellington Street (1874, closed c. 1940)
  • Benefice and Parish of Chesterton Good Shepherd (population 15,578): Good Shepherd Church (1958) --- St John's Church, Orchard Park (2013, in primary school)
  • Benefice and Parish of Chesterton St Andrew (population 9,535): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Chesterton St George (population 9,214): St George's Church (1938)
  • Benefice and Parish of Fen Ditton (population 3,763): St Mary the Virgin's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Horningsea (population 328): St Peter's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Teversham (population 1,097): All Saints' Church (medieval)

Deanery of Cambridge South

  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge Holy Trinity (population 1,883): Holy Trinity Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St Barnabas (population 3,287): St Barnabas' Church (1869)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St Benedict (population 988): St Bene't's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St Botolph (population 2,082): St Botolph's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St Edward (Proprietary Chapel) (population 1,339): St Edward King and Martyr's Church (medieval) --- St John the Baptist's Church (St John Zachary) (medieval, closed C15th)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St James (population 6,630): St James's Church (1955)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St John the Evangelist (population 11,385): St John the Evangelist's Church (1896)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St Martin (population 6,891): St Martin's Church (1932, rebuilt 1961) --- St Thomas's Church (1980)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St Mary the Less (population 1,366): St Mary the Less (medieval, rededicated and rebuilt 1352; previously St Peter's-outside-Trumpington-Gates) --- St Anne's Chapel (medieval, closed 1546)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St Paul (population 5,665): St Paul's Church (1841)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cambridge St Philip (population 9,835): St Philip's Church (1891) --- St Stephen's Church (1940s, rebuilt 1962, sold 2010)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cherry Hinton (population 10,099): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Grantchester (population 534): SS Andrew & Mary's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Newnham (population 3,050): St Mark's Church, Newnham, Cambridge (1870, rebuilt 1901)
  • Benefice and Parish of Trumpington (population 13,343): SS Mary & Michael's Church (medieval)

Deanery of Fordham and Quy

  • Benefice of Anglesey
    • Parish of Bottisham (population 2,476): Holy Trinity Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Lode with Longmeadow (population 848): St James's Church, Lode (1853)
    • Parish of Stow cum Quy (population 548): St Mary's Church, Stow (medieval) --- St Nicholas' Church, Quy (medieval, closed Middle Ages)
    • Parish of Swaffham Bulbeck (population 820): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Swaffham Prior (population 884): St Mary's Church (medieval) --- SS Cyriac & Julitta's Church (medieval, rebuilt 1809, closed 1903)
  • Benefice and Parish of Ashley with Silverley (population 583): St Mary's Church, Ashley (medieval, rebuilt 1845) --- All Saints' Church, Silverley (medieval, closed C16th) --- St John's Chapel, Ashley (medieval, parish church C16th, closed 1845, demolished 1956)
  • Benefice and Parish of Burwell with Reach (population 6,753): St Mary's Church, Burwell (medieval) --- St Etheldreda & Holy Trinity Church, Reach (medieval chapel to St John the Baptist, rebuilt and rededicated 1861) --- St Andrew's Church, Burwell (medieval, closed c. 1600) --- St Etheldreda's Chapel, Reach (medieval, closed C16th)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cheveley (population 1,100): St Mary & the Holy Host's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Fulbourn (population 4,144): St Vigor's Church (medieval) --- All Saints' Church (medieval, closed 1766)
  • Benefice and Parish of Great Wilbraham (population 606): St Nicholas' Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Kirtling (population 365): All Saints' Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Little Wilbraham (population 438): St John the Evangelist's Church (medieval) --- St George's Church, Six Mile Bottom (1890s, rebuilt 1933)
  • Benefice of Raddesley
    • Parish of Brinkley (population 359): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Burrough Green (population 514): St Augustine of Canterbury's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Carlton (population 183): St Peter's Church (medieval) --- All Saints' Church, Willingham-next-Carlton (medieval, closed C16th)
    • Parish of Dullingham (population 759): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Stetchworth (population 625): St Peter's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Westley Waterless (population 73): St Mary the Less's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of Three Rivers
    • Parish of Chippenham (population 533): St Margaret of Antioch's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Fordham (population 2,867): SS Peter & Mary Magdalene's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Isleham (population 2,663): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Kennett (population 384): St Nicholas' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Snailwell (population 179): St Peter's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Wicken (population 841): St Laurence's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Wood Ditton with Saxon Street (population 829): St Mary's Church, Woodditton (medieval) --- Holy Trinity Church, Saxon Street (1877, closed c. 1986)

All Saints' church, Newmarket, was in this portion of the diocese until it was transferred to Suffolk in 1889.[14] It was a chapelry to Woodditton until the 19th century.[15] The chapelry of St Nicholas, Landwade, was also in this portion of the diocese until it was transferred to Suffolk.[16]

Deanery of Granta

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Granta deanery parishes. (1) Great Shelford (2) Harston (3) Hauxton (4) Newton (5) Little Shelford (6) Stapleford (7) Sawston (8) Babraham (9) Whittlesford (10) Duxford (11) Ickleton (12) Pampisford (13) Hinxton (14) Great & Little Abington (15) Hildersham (16) Balsham (17) West Wratting (18) Weston Colville (19) West Wickham (20) Linton (21) Bartlow (22) Horseheath (23) Shudy Camps (24) Castle Camps
  • Benefice and Parish of Babraham (population 337): St Peter's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Duxford (population 1,965): St Peter's Church (medieval) --- St John the Baptist's Church (medieval, closed 1874)
  • Benefice of Granta Vale
    • Parish of Balsham (population 1,636): Holy Trinity Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Great and Little Abington (population 1,521): St Mary the Virgin's Church, Great Abington (medieval) --- St Mary's Church, Little Abington (medieval)
    • Parish of Hildersham (population 197): Holy Trinity Church (medieval)
    • Parish of West Wickham (population 403): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of West Wratting (population 466): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Weston Colville (population 437): St Mary's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Great Shelford (population 4,667): St Mary the Virgin's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of Harston with Hauxton and Newton
    • Parish of Harston (population 1,664): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Hauxton (population 1,496): St Edmund's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Newton (population 362): St Margaret of Antioch's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Hinxton (population 328): SS Mary & John the Evangelist's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Ickleton (population 797): St Mary Magdalene's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of Linton
    • Parish of Bartlow (population 222): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Castle Camps (population 645): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Horseheath (population 459): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Linton (population 4,423): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Shudy Camps (population 300): St Mary's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Little Shelford (population 770): All Saints' Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Pampisford (population 344): St John the Baptist's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Sawston (population 7,300): St Mary the Virgin's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Stapleford (population 1,975): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Whittlesford (population 1,856): SS Mary & Andrew's Church (medieval)

Deanery of North Stowe

  • Benefice of 5Folds
    • Parish of Longstanton (population 5,712): All Saints' Church (medieval) --- Pathfinder Church, Northstowe (2021) --- St Michael's Church, Longstanton (medieval, closed 1973)
    • Parish of Over (population 2,881): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Swavesey (population 2,749): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Willingham (population 4,363): St Mary & All Saints' Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Bar Hill (population 3,899): Bar Hill Church Local Ecumenical Partnership (1967, rebuilt 1991)
  • Benefice and Parish of Cottenham with Rampton (population 6,766): All Saints' Church, Cottenham (medieval) --- All Saints' Church, Rampton (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Girton (population 4,392): St Andrew's Church (medieval) --- St James's Chapel, Howes (medieval, closed 1558)
  • Benefice and Parish of Histon (population 5,389): St Andrew's Church (medieval) --- St Etheldreda's Church (medieval, closed 1599)
  • Benefice and Parish of Impington (population 3,061): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Landbeach (population 952): All Saints' Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Madingley (population 181): St Mary Magdalene's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Milton (population 4,176): All Saints' Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Oakington (population 1,497): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Waterbeach (population 5,546): St John the Evangelist's Church (medieval)

Deanery of Shingay

  • Benefice and Parish of Bassingbourn (population 3,251): SS Peter & Paul's Church (medieval) --- St Mary Magdalene's Church, Kneesworth (medieval, closed 1549)
  • Benefice of Fowlmere, Foxton, Shepreth and Thriplow
    • Parish of Fowlmere (population 1,149): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Foxton (population 1,276): St Laurence's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Shepreth (population 788): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Thriplow (population 1,231): St George's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Melbourn (population 4,905): All Saints' Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Meldreth (population 2,074): Holy Trinity Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of Orwell
    • Parish of Arrington (population 408): St Nicholas' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Barrington (population 1,198): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Croydon (population 205): All Saints' Church (medieval) --- St Mary's Church, Clopton (medieval, closed C17th)
    • Parish of Orwell (population 1,138): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Wimpole (population 288): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of Shingay
    • Parish of Abington Pigotts (population 147): St Michael & All Angels' Church (medieval) --- St Swithin's Chapel (medieval, closed C16th)
    • Parish of Guilden Morden with Tadlow (population 1,115): St Mary's Church, Guilden Morden (medieval) --- St Giles' Church, Tadlow (medieval, closed 2020s) --- St James's Chapel, Redreth (medieval, closed C16th)
    • Parish of Litlington (population 851): St Catherine's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Steeple Morden (population 1,194): SS Peter & Paul's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Wendy with Shingay (population 94): All Saints' Church, Wendy (medieval, rebuilt 1867, 1980s) --- St Mary's Church, Shingay (medieval, rebuilt 1697, closed C18th)
  • Benefice and Parish of Whaddon (population 517): St Mary's Church (medieval)

Archdeaconry of Huntingdon and Wisbech

Deanery of Ely

  • Benefice of Ely
    • Parish of Chettisham (population 150): St Michael & All Angels' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Ely (population 20,283): St Mary's Church (medieval) --- Christ Church North Ely (2016) --- St Etheldreda's Church, Queen Adelaide (1883, closed 1968) --- St Peter's Church, Prickwillow (1866, closed 2008)
    • Parish of Stuntney (population 300): Holy Cross Church (medieval, rebuilt 1876)
  • [Proprietary Chapel of St Peter-in-Ely (outside parish structures) (1890)]
  • Benefice of Isle of Ely Villages
    • Parish of Coveney (population 436): St Peter ad Vincula's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Downham (population 2,587): St Leonard's Church (medieval) --- Holy Trinity Church, Pymoor (1865, closed 1981) --- St Owen's Church, Downham Fen (1895, closed C20th)
    • Parish of Haddenham (population 3,474): Holy Trinity Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Little Thetford (population 715): St George's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Mepal (population 961): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Stretham (population 2,090): St James's Church (medieval, rebuilt 1876)
    • Parish of Sutton (population 4,043): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Wentworth (population 230): St Peter's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Wilburton (population 1,067): St Peter's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Witcham (population 464): St Martin's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Witchford (population 2,498): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Littleport (population 9,997): St George's Church (medieval) --- St Matthew's Church (1878, closed) --- St John the Evangelist's Church, Little Ouse (1866, closed 1976)
  • Benefice and Parish of Soham (population 12,321): St Andrew's Church (medieval) --- St Nicholas' Chapel, Barway (medieval, closed 1965)

Deanery of Fincham and Feltwell

  • Benefice of Downham Market and Stradsett
    • Parish of Downham Market (population 9,682): St Edmund's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Stradsett (population 87): St Mary's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of Grimshoe
  • Benefice of Ouse Valley
    • Parish of Bexwell (population 82): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Crimplesham (population 263): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Denver (population 1,899): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Hilgay (population 1,371): All Saints' Church, Hilgay (medieval) --- St Mark's Church, Ten Mile Bank (1847)
    • Parish of Ryston with Roxham (population 40): St Michael's Church, Ryston (medieval) --- St Michael's Church, Roxham (abandoned C16th)
    • Parish of Southery (population 1,395): St Mary's Church (medieval, rebuilt 1858)
  • Benefice of West Norfolk Priory
    • Parish of Fincham (population 514): St Martin's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Marham (population 2,609): Holy Trinity Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Nordelph (population 966): Holy Trinity Church (1865, parish church 1909, closed, services in village hall)
    • Parish of Runcton Holme with South Runcton (population 624): St James's Church, Runcton Holme (medieval) --- St Andrew's Church, South Runcton (medieval, rebuilt 1839, closed 2010s)
    • Parish of Shouldham (population 651): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Shouldham Thorpe (population 150): St Mary the Virgin's Church (medieval, rebuilt 1858)
    • Parish of Stow Bardolph (population 882): Holy Trinity Church (medieval) --- St Peter's Mission Church, Stow Bridge (1908)
    • Parish of Tottenhill (population 200): St Botolph's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Watlington (population 2,567): SS Peter & Paul's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Wimbotsham (population 1,619): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Wormegay (population 399): St Michael & All Angels & Holy Cross Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of Wissey Valley
    • Parish of Barton Bendish (population 207): St Andrew's Church (medieval) --- St Mary's Church (medieval, closed 1967) --- All Saints' Church (medieval, demolished 1788)
    • Parish of Beachamwell with Shingham (population 348): St Mary's Church, Beachamwell (medieval) --- All Saints' Church, Beachamwell (medieval, collapsed 1688) --- St John the Baptist's Church, Beachamwell (medieval, closed 1540s) --- St Botolph's Church, Shingham (medieval, closed 1941)
    • Parish of Boughton (population 234): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Methwold (population 1,521): St George's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Wereham (population 718): St Margaret of Antioch's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of West Dereham (population 471): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Whittington (population 420): Christ Church (1874)
    • Parish of Wretton with Stoke Ferry (population 1,593): All Saints' Church, Wretton (medieval) --- All Saints' Church, Stoke Ferry (medieval, rebuilt 1848, closed)

Deanery of Huntingdon

  • Benefice and Parish of East Leightonstone (population 7,787): St Mary Magdalene's Church, Brampton (medieval) --- All Saints' Church, Ellington (medieval) --- All Saints' Church, Grafham (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Fen Drayton with Fenstanton (population 4,652): St Mary's Church, Fen Drayton (medieval) --- SS Peter & Paul's Church, Fenstanton (medieval)
  • Benefice of Godmanchester and Hilton
  • Benefice of Hartford and Houghton with Wyton
    • Parish of Hartford (population 4,599): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Houghton with Wyton (population 3,471): St Mary's Church, Houghton (medieval) --- All Saints' Church, Wyton (medieval, closed 1980s)
  • Benefice and Parish of Hemingford Abbots (population 624): St Margaret of Antioch's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Hemingford Grey (population 2,964): St James's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Huntingdon (population 20,847): All Saints' Church (medieval) --- St Mary's Church (medieval) --- St Barnabas' Church (1969) --- Cambridgeshire Deaf Church (2021) --- Christ Church (2018, left to join AMiE) --- Holy Trinity Church (medieval, closed C14th) --- St Andrew's Church (medieval, closed C16th) --- St Benedict's Church (medieval, closed 1668) --- St Botolph's Church (medieval, closed Middle Ages) --- St Clement's Church (medieval, closed C14th) --- St Edmund's Church (medieval, closed 1312) --- St George's Church (medieval, closed C17th) --- St Germain's Church (medieval, closed C17th) --- St John the Baptist's Church (medieval, closed 1667) --- St Lawrence's Church (medieval, closed C13th) --- St Martin's Church (medieval, closed 1343) --- St Michael's Church (medieval, closed C16th) --- St Nicholas' Church (medieval, closed Middle Ages) --- St Peter's Church (medieval, closed C16th)
  • Benefice of North Leightonstone
  • Benefice of South Leightonstone
    • Parish of Barham and Woolley (population 59): St Giles' Church, Barham (medieval) --- St Mary's Church, Woolley (medieval, closed 1960)
    • Parish of Covington (population 98): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Easton (population 161): St Peter's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Kimbolton (population 1,360): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Spaldwick (population 609): St James's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Stow Longa (population 150): St Botolph's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Tilbrook (population 244): All Saints' Church (medieval, historically in Bedfordshire)
  • Benefice of West Leightonstone
    • Parish of Brington (population 260): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Bythorn (population 153): St Lawrence's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Great Catworth (population 371): St Leonard's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Keyston (population 179): St John the Baptist's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Leighton Bromswold (population 185): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Molesworth (population 170): St Peter's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Old Weston (population 222): St Swithin's Church (medieval)

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.[17] St James the Great, Thurning, was historically in this area, but moved to the Diocese of Peterborough when the parish was transferred wholly to Northamptonshire (the parish church was always in Northamptonshire).[18]

Deanery of March

  • Benefice and Parish of Chatteris (population 11,166): SS Peter & Paul's Church (medieval) --- St Peter's Mission, Slade End, Chatteris (1906, closed c. 1980)
  • Benefice of March
    • Parish of March St John (population 11,824): St John the Evangelist's Church (1872)
    • Parish of March St Mary (population 476): St Mary the Virgin's Church, Westry (1874) --- St Mary Magdalene's Chapel, West Fen (1891, closed C20th)
    • Parish of March St Peter (population 6,730): St Peter's Church (1880)
    • Parish of March St Wendreda (population 3,937): St Wendreda's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of Six Fen Churches
    • Parish of Doddington with Benwick (population 3,667): St Mary's Church, Doddington (medieval) --- St Mary's Church, Benwick (1854, demolished 1985, services continue in church room within village hall) --- St James's Chapel, Benwick (medieval, closed C16th)
    • Parish of Manea (population 2,607): St Nicholas' Church (medieval, rebuilt 1875)
    • Parish of Upwell Christchurch (population 900): Christ Church (1864)
    • Parish of Welney (population 581): St Mary's Church (C17th, rebuilt 1848, in Norfolk)
    • Parish of Wimblington (population 2,387): St Peter's Church (1874)
  • Benefice of Whittlesey, Pondersbridge and Coates
    • Parish of Coates (population 2,846): Holy Trinity Church (1839) --- Eastrea Chapel (medieval, closed c. C17th) --- Eldernell Chapel (medieval, closed c. C17th)
    • Parish of Pondersbridge (population 408): St Thomas's Church (C19th, rebuilt 1869)
    • Parish of Whittlesey St Andrew (population 5,924): St Andrew's Church (medieval) --- St Guthlac's Mission Church, North Side (1902, closed C20th)
    • Parish of Whittlesey St Mary (population 8,709): St Mary's Church (medieval) --- St Stephen's Chapel, Angle Bridge (1877, closed C20th)

Deanery of St Ives

  • Benefice of Bluntisham cum Earith with Colne and Holywell cum Needingworth
    • Parish of Bluntisham cum Earith (population 3,427): St Mary's Church, Bluntisham (medieval) --- St James's Chapel, Earith (medieval, closed 1571) --- St Mary's Chapel, Earith Bridge (medieval, closed 1571)
    • Parish of Colne (population 952): St Helen's Church (medieval, rebuilt 1900)
    • Parish of Holywell cum Needingworth (population 2,338): St John the Baptist's Church, Holywell (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of St Ives (population 16,678): All Saints' Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of Somersham with Pidley and Oldhurst and Woodhurst
    • Parish of Old Hurst (population 255): St Peter's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Pidley-cum-Fenton (population 414): All Saints' Church (medieval, rebuilt 1865)
    • Parish of Somersham (population 3,750): St John the Baptist's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Woodhurst (population 419): St John the Baptist's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of The Ramseys and Upwood
    • Parish of Ramsey (population 7,125): St Thomas a Becket's Church (medieval) --- St Benet's Church, Ramsey Hollow (1877, closed C20th) --- St Felix's Church, Ramsey Forty Foot (C19th/20th, closed C20th)
    • Parish of Ramsey St Mary's (population 1,513): St Mary's Church (1858)
    • Parish of Upwood (population 1,257): St Peter's Church (medieval) --- St James's Church, Little Raveley (medieval, redundant 1975)
  • Benefice of Warboys with Broughton and Bury with Wistow
    • Parish of Broughton (population 253): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Bury (population 1,808): Holy Cross Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Warboys (population 4,513): St Mary Magdalene's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Wistow (population 604): St John the Baptist's Church (medieval)

Deanery of St Neots

Deanery of Wisbech Lynn Marshland

  • Benefice and Parish of Clenchwarton (population 2,040): St Margaret's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of East Marshland
  • Benefice of Leverington, Newton and Tydd St Giles
    • Parish of Leverington (population 3,537): St Leonard's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Newton in the Isle (population 652): St James's Church (medieval) --- St Mary in the Marsh (medieval, closed C16th)
    • Parish of Tydd St Giles (population 1,222): St Giles' Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Outwell (population 2,247): St Clement's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Terrington St Clement (population 4,562): St Clement's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of The Fen Orchards
    • Parish of Elm (population 2,363): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Emneth (population 4,935): St Edmund's Church (medieval) --- St James's Church, Marshland St James (1837, closed 2002)
    • Parish of Friday Bridge with Coldham (population 1,500): St Mark's Church, Friday Bridge (1860) --- St Etheldreda's Church, Coldham (1876, closed C20th)
  • Benefice and Parish of Upwell (population 2,991): St Peter's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Walpole St Peter with Walpole St Andrew (population 3,406): St Peter's Church, Walpole St Peter (medieval) --- St Andrew's Church, Walpole St Andrew (medieval, closed) --- St Helen's Mission Church, Walpole Cross Keys (1881, closed 1970s) --- St Edmund's Church, Walpole Highway (1844, closed 1984)
  • Benefice and Parish of Walsoken (population 8,766): All Saints' Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of West Walton (population 1,890): St Mary's Church (medieval) --- St Paul's Church, Walton Highway (1850, closed)
  • Benefice and Parish of Wisbech St Augustine (population 8,145): St Augustine's Church (1868)* Benefice of Wisbech St Mary and Guyhirn with Ring's End and Gorefield and Southea with Murrow and Parson Drove
  • Benefice and Parish of Wisbech St Peter and St Paul (population 8,753): SS Peter & Paul's Church (medieval) --- Octagon Chapel (1831, closed 1946)

Deanery of Yaxley

  • Benefice of Alwalton and Chesterton
    • Parish of Alwalton (population 3,898): St Andrew's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Chesterton (population 148): St Michael's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Elton (population 681): All Saints' Church (medieval)
  • Benefice of Fen Edge
    • Parish of Glatton (population 264): St Nicholas' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Holme with Conington (population 880): St Giles' Church, Holme (medieval, rebuilt 1862) --- All Saints' Church, Conington (medieval, closed)
    • Parish of Sawtry (population 5,893): All Saints' Church (medieval, rebuilt 1880) --- St Andrew's Church (medieval, closed 1879) --- St Mary's Church, Sawtry Judith (medieval, closed C16th)
  • Benefice and Parish of Fletton (population 8,106): St Margaret's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Hampton (population 17,920): Christ the Servant King Church (c. 2014)
  • Benefice and Parish of Orton Goldhay and Orton Malborne (population 11,396): Christ Church Local Ecumenical Partnership, Orton Goldhay (c. 2000)
  • Benefice of Stanground and Farcet
    • Parish of Farcet (population 1,553): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Stanground (population 15,843): St John the Baptist's Church (medieval) --- St Michael & All Angels' Church (C20th)
  • Benefice of Stilton with Denton and Caldecote and Folkesworth with Morborne and Haddon
    • Parish of Folkesworth (population 844): St Helen's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Haddon (population 62): St Mary's Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Morborne (population 27): All Saints' Church (medieval)
    • Parish of Stilton with Denton and Caldecote (population 2,367): St Mary Magdalene's Church, Stilton (medieval) --- All Saints' Church, Denton (medieval, closed 1960s) --- St Mary Magdalene's Church, Caldecote (medieval, closed 1970s)
  • Benefice of The Ortons
    • Parish of Orton Longueville with Bottlebridge (population 3,769): Holy Trinity Church, Orton Longueville (medieval) --- All Saints' Church, Botolph Bridge (medieval, closed 1695)
    • Parish of Orton Waterville (population 3,870): St Mary's Church (medieval)
  • Benefice and Parish of Woodston (population 7,227): St Augustine of Canterbury's Church (medieval, rebuilt 1844, closed 2022) --- Mission Church?
  • Benefice and Parish of Yaxley (population 9,387): St Peter's Church (medieval)
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Medieval churches (and chapelries)

  • All Saints: Barrington, Barton Bendish, Beachamwell, Botolph Bridge, Boughton, Brington, Broughton, Buckworth, Cambridge (x2), Castle Camps, Conington (Hunts), Coppingford, Cottenham, Covington, Croydon, Denton, Ellington, Elm, Elton, Fulbourn, Grafham, Hamerton, Harston, Hartford, Haslingfield, Hilgay, Horseheath, Huntingdon, Kirtling, Knapwell, Landbeach, Little Shelford, Lolworth, Longstanton, Melbourn, Milton, Morborne, [Newmarket], Offord Cluny, Pidley-cum-Fenton, Rampton, St Ives, Sawtry, Shepreth, Shouldham, Silverley, Stoke Ferry, Teversham, Thriplow,[22] Tilbrook, Tilney All Saints, Walsoken, Weeting, Willingham (near Carlton), Winwick, Woodditton,[23] Wretton, Wyton
  • All Saints & St Andrew: Kingston
  • Assumption of Mary: Harlton, West Wickham[24]
  • Corpus Christi: Murrow
  • Holy Cross: Bury, Stuntney, Yelling
  • Holy Sepulchre: Cambridge
  • Holy Trinity: Balsham, Bottisham, Cambridge, Elsworth, Ely, Great Paxton, Haddenham, Hildersham, Huntingdon, Marham, Meldreth, Orton Longueville, Stow Bardolph
  • St Andrew: Abbots Ripton, Alwalton, Barton Bendish, Burwell, Cambridge (x2), Caxton, Cherry Hinton, Chesterton (Cambs), Girton, Grantchester,[25] Great Staughton, Histon, Huntingdon, Isleham, Kimbolton, Northwold, Oakington, Orwell, Sawtry, Soham, South Runcton, Stapleford, Steeple Gidding, Sutton, Swavesey, Toft, Walpole St Andrew, West Dereham, West Wratting, Whittlesey, Whittlesford,[26] 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, Shingham, Stow Longa, Tottenhill
  • St Catherine: Litlington, Newton-in-the-Isle[27]
  • St Clement: Cambridge, Huntingdon, Outwell, Terrington St Clement
  • SS Cyriac & Julitta: Swaffham Prior
  • St Denis: East Hatley
  • St Edmund: Downham Market, Emneth, Hauxton, Huntingdon
  • St Edward the Martyr: Cambridge
  • St Etheldreda: Histon, Impington,[28] Reach
  • St George: Hatley St George, Huntingdon, Littleport, Methwold, Thetford
  • St Germain: Huntingdon
  • St Giles: Barham, Cambridge, Holme, Tydd St Giles
  • St Helen: Bourn,[29] Colne, Folksworth, Little Eversden
  • St James: Benwick,[30] Croxton, Earith, Hemingford Grey, Howes, Little Paxton, Little Raveley, Newton,[31] Redreth, Runcton Holme, Spaldwick, Stretham, [Thurning], Waresley, Wilton
  • St John the Baptist: Ashley (hospital chapel), Beachamwell, Cambridge, Duxford, Holywell-cum-Needingworth, Huntingdon, Keyston, Pampisford, Parson Drove, Reach, Somersham, Stanground, Tadlow,[32] Terrington St John, Wistow, Woodhurst
  • St John the Evangelist: Little Gidding, Little Wilbraham, Waterbeach
  • St Lawrence: Bythorn, Diddington, Foxton, Huntingdon, Tilney St Lawrence, Wicken
  • St Leonard: Downham, Great Catworth, Leverington, Southoe
  • St Margaret: Abbotsley, Chippenham, Clenchwarton, Fletton, Hemingford Abbots, Little Staughton,[33] Upton, Wereham
  • St Martin: Fincham, Huntingdon, Little Stukeley, Witcham
  • St Mary: Ashley, Bartlow, Barton Bendish, Beachamwell, Bexwell, Bluntisham, Brinkley, Buckden, Burwell, Cambridge, Cheveley, Childerley, Clopton, Comberton, Conington (Cambs), Crimplesham, Denver, Doddington, Dullingham, Earith Bridge, Ely, Everton, Eynesbury, Farcet, Feltwell, Fen Ditton, Fen Drayton, Fordham,[34] Fowlmere, Gamlingay, Godmanchester, Great Abington, Great Eversden, Great Shelford, Guilden Morden, Haddon, Hardwick, Haslingfield, Hinxton,[35] Houghton, Huntingdon, Ickleton,[36] Islington, Leighton Bromswold, Linton, Little Abington, Longstowe, Mepal, Newton-in-the-Isle, Orton Waterville, Over, St Neots, Sawston, Sawtry Judith, Shingay, Shouldham Thorpe, Shudy Camps, Southery, Stow, Stradsett, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior, Weeting, Wendy,[37] West Walton, Westley Waterless, Weston Colville, Whaddon, Whittlesey, Wiggenhall St Mary the Virgin, Wimbotsham, Wisbech, Woolley
  • St Mary Magdalene: Brampton, Caldecote (Hunts), Hilton, Kneesworth, Madingley, Stilton, Stourbridge, Warboys
  • St Matthew: Willingham[38]
  • St Michael: Abington Pigotts, Caldecote (Cambs), Cambridge, Chesterton (Hunts), Chettisham, Great Gidding, Huntingdon, Longstanton, Roxham, Ryston, Toseland
  • St Michael & Holy Cross: Wormegay
  • St Nicholas: Arrington, Barway, Feltwell, Glatton, Great Wilbraham, Hail Weston, Huntingdon, Kennett, [Landwade], Manea, Quy, [Swineshead], Trumpington[39]
  • St Pandionia: Eltisley[40]
  • St Peter: Babraham, Barton, Boxworth, Cambridge (x2), Carlton, Coton, Duxford, Easton, Hockwold, Horningsea, Huntingdon, Kings Ripton, Molesworth, Offord D'Arcy, Old Hurst, Papworth Everard, Papworth St Agnes,[41] Snailwell, Stetchworth, Upwell, Upwood, Walpole St Peter, Wentworth, Wiggenhall St Peter, Wilburton, Wisbech, Yaxley
  • St Peter-ad-Vincula: Coveney
  • SS Peter & Paul: Alconbury, Bassingbourn, Chatteris, Dry Drayton, Fenstanton, Little Gransden, Steeple Morden, Watlington
  • 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

Post-medieval churches

  • All Saints: Cambridge (1863)
  • Christ Church: Cambridge (1837), Christchurch (1864), Ely (2016), Huntingdon (2018), Whittington (1874), Orton Goldhay (c. 2000)
  • Christ the Redeemer: Cambridge (C20th)
  • Christ the Servant King: Hampton (2014)
  • Emmanuel: Parson Drove (1873)
  • 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 Benedict: Ramsey Hollow (1877)
  • St Eanswyth: Welches Dam (1909)
  • St Edmund: Walpole Highway (1844)
  • St Etheldreda: Coldham (1876), Queen Adelaide (1883)
  • St Felix of Burgundy: Ramsey Forty Foot (C19th/20th)
  • St George: Chesterton (Cambs) (1938), Six Mile Bottom (1890s)
  • St Guthlac: North Side (1902)
  • St Helen: Walpole Cross Keys (1881)
  • St James: Cambridge (1955), Lode (1853), Marshland (1837)
  • 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), Ten Mile Bank (1864)
  • 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), Walton Highway (1850)
  • St Peter: Chatteris (1906), Ely (1890), March (1880), Prickwillow (1866), Stow Bridge (1908), Wimblington (1874)
  • St Philip: Cambridge (1889)
  • St Stephen: Angle Bridge (1877), Cambridge (c. 1940)
  • St Thomas: Cambridge (1980), Pondersbridge (C19th)
  • No dedication/dedication unknown: Alconbury Weald (2020s), Bar Hill (1967), Cambourne (1999), Deaf Church (2021), Wisbech (1831)
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