What is Diocese of Truro?
{{Coord|50.240|-5.018|display=title|region:GB_scale:500000}} [[Image:Truro stmarysst.jpg|thumb|Truro Cathedral from St Mary's Street]] The '''Diocese of Truro''' is a [[Church of England]] diocese in the [[Province of Canterbury]]. The area included in the diocese is that of the county of [[Cornwall]] including the [[Isles of Scilly]]. It was formed in 1876 from the western parts of the [[Diocese of Exeter]] and the first bishop was appointed in 1877.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/24394/pages/6933 ''London Gazette'', 15 December 1876.]</ref> The Christian faith has been alive in the region since at least the 4th century AD. Many of the communities in the diocese, as well as the parish churches, bear a Celtic saint's name, which is a reminder of the links with other Celtic lands. The head of the diocese is the bishop of Truro, Tim Thornton, and the [[Truro Cathedral|cathedral]] is in [[Truro]]. There are 225 parishes with a little more than 300 church buildings in the diocese. ==Notes== <references/> ==Further information== *[http://www.truro.anglican.org/ truro.anglican.org Diocese of Truro] [[Category:Anglicanism]] [[Category:Organisations based in Cornwall]] [[Category:1876 establishments in England]]