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See also: List of bishops of Lincoln and precursor offices

The Bishop of Lincoln heads the (Anglican) Diocese of Lincoln in the Province of Canterbury. List of bishops of Lincoln and precursor offices See also Bishop of Dorchester (historic for more of the tangled early history of the see The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican The Diocese of Lincoln forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England. The Province of Canterbury, also called the Southern Province, is one of two Ecclesiastical provinces making up the Church of England. The bishops were in communion with the See of Rome until the English Reformation of the 1530s. The English Reformation was the series of events in 16th century England by which the Church of England first broke away from the authority of the Pope

The present diocese covers the county of Lincolnshire. Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the east of England. The Bishop's seat, or cathedra, is located in the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the city of Lincoln. A cathedra ( Latin, "chair" from Greek, kathedra, "seat" is the Chair or Throne of a Bishop Lincoln Cathedral (in full The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, or sometimes St This was originally a minster church founded around 653 and re-founded as a cathedral in 1072. Events Sigeberht II the Good succeeds Sigeberht I the Little as king of Essex. This article is about the history and organisation of the cathedral

The current bishop of Lincoln is the Right Reverend Dr John Saxbee, the 71st (34th Anglican) Bishop of Lincoln, who signs John Lincoln. His official residence is Bishop's House in Lincoln.

History

Identifying the origin of the diocese has posed some difficulty. The original diocese of Lindsey (Lindine) was founded in 628 by the Roman missionary, Saint Paulinus of York, almost certainly with its seat at the church of St Paul-in-the-Bail in Lincoln. Lindsey was a unit of local government until 1974 in Lincolnshire, England, covering the northern part of the county Events By Place Europe Pippin of Landen becomes Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia. St Paulinus (born c 584 died 10 October 644 was the first Bishop of York and Bishop of Rochester in England This did not outlive Paulinus's flight south in 633. Events By Place Europe Oswald of Bernicia becomes Bretwalda. Osric becomes king of Deira.

A subsequent diocese was considered the foundation of Saint Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, out of the diocese of Lindisfarne. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the The seat of this supposed Bishop of Lindsey at Sidnacester (Syddensis) has been placed, by various commentators, at Caistor, Louth, Horncastle and, most often, at Stow, all in present-day Lincolnshire. See Caistor St Edmund for the Roman settlement in Norfolk or Caister-on-Sea for the town in Norfolk Caistor is a Georgian Town situated in Louth is a Market town within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Horncastle is a Market town of some 6090 residents in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Stow (or archaically Stow-in-Lindsey) is a small village and Civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England More recent research has concluded, however, that the seat was, in fact, the original foundation of 628 in Lincoln itself.

Due to the threat of Viking invasion, the bishop's seat was moved to the cathedral at Dorchester-on-Thames in present-day Oxfordshire in 971. A Viking is one of the Norse ( Scandinavian Explorers Warriors Merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas Dorchester Abbey is a parish church formerly an abbey church in the place of a cathedral situated in the centre of the village of Dorchester-on-Thames in Oxfordshire Dorchester-on-Thames is a Village on the Thames in Oxfordshire, England. History See also History of Oxfordshire The county of Oxfordshire was formed in the early years of the 10th century and is broadly situated in the 971 was a year in the 10th century. Events By Place Europe Kenneth II of Scotland succeeds Culen Each subsequent bishop was called Bishop of Dorchester until the seat returned to Lincoln and the diocese renamed in 1072. See also Area Bishop of Dorchester The Bishop of Dorchester was a bishop in the pre-Reformation Church of England in the Anglo-Saxon period in charge

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