Diocese of Sodor and Man
Diocese of Sodor and Man Dioecesis Sodorensis et Monensis Aspickys Sodor as Vannin | ||
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Archdeaconries Man | | |
Deaneries | Castletown, Douglas, Peel, Ramsey | |
Statistics | ||
Parishes | 15 (in 14 benefices) | |
Churches | 43 | |
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Denomination | Church of England | |
Cathedral | Peel Cathedral | |
Current leadership | ||
Bishop | Peter Eagles, Bishop of Sodor and Man | |
Archdeacon | Irene Cowell, Archdeacon of Man | |
Website | ||
sodorandman.im |
The Diocese of Sodor and Man is a diocese of the Church of England. Originally much larger, today it covers just the Isle of Man and its adjacent islets. Today, the bishop's office is in Douglas and the cathedral is in Peel. The diocese is not generally called either "Sodor diocese" or "Man diocese".
Structure
The diocese administers 40 churches, which are organised in 15 ecclesiastical parishes. Formerly there were 27 such parishes, but their number has been reduced by extensive pastoral reorganisation between 2012 and 2015.
The Cathedral Church of St German at Peel (informally styled Cathedral Isle of Man) is one of five churches in the parish of the West Coast, the incumbent (vicar) of which is ex officio Dean of the Cathedral.[4]
The parishes are grouped into four "Mission Partnerships" (Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern) for purposes of mission and inter-parochial co-operation. Originally informal (from 2010), these mission partnerships became legal entities on 1 January 2013 under the Mission and Pastoral Measure (Isle of Man) 2012.
In addition to the parish clergy, the bishop licenses a few ordained
Early history
The Norwegian diocese of Sodor was formed in 1154, covering the Hebrides and the other islands along the west coast of Scotland. The name in the original Norse was Suðreyjar (Sudreys or "southern isles"), in contrast to the Norðreyjar, the "northern isles" of Orkney and Shetland. The Isle of Man was included in with these southern isles. This diocese was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Nidaros (Trondheim).[9]
Norway
Usage of Sodor and Man
As stated above, the Isle of Man was included in the Southern islands ("Sudreys"); the addition of "and Man" may have been made in the 17th century in ignorance of the proper application of the name of Sodor to the bishopric of Man.[12] It is suggested that St Patrick's Isle, being the location of the cathedral for the Norse diocese of Sodor, by some confusion itself became known as Sodor.[13] By the late 16th century the terms "Sodor" and "Man" had become interchangeable, the bishopric being named in legal documents as "Sodor" or "Man" or "Sodor and Man", or sometimes all three, for the avoidance of doubt (e.g. the grant of the lordship of the Island to the Earl of Derby in 1610 included "the Patronage of the Bishopricke of the said Isle of Mann, and the Patronage of the Bishopricke of Sodor, and the Patronage of the Bishopricke of Sodor and Mann").[14]
Until 1604 the bishops signed themselves "Sodorensis"; from 1604 to 1684, sometimes they used "Soderensis" and sometimes "Sodor and Man"; between 1684 and 2007 all bishops signed "Sodor and Man" or "Sodor and Mann". However, the present bishop signs "Sodor as Mannin", the Manx Gaelic equivalent, as did his predecessor.
Later history
The original
An 1836 proposal to subsume the diocese into the Diocese of Carlisle was defeated, as was the 1875 proposal that the Diocese of Liverpool (then at the planning stage, founded 1880) should include the Isle of Man.[16]
Since the Isle of Man is not part of the United Kingdom, the bishop is never a
The name of the diocese served as inspiration for the fictional Island of Sodor, the primary setting of Wilbert Awdry's The Railway Series and the later Thomas the Tank Engine TV series, which place the island in the Irish Sea.[19]
List of churches
Last fully updated 18 September 2018.
Statistics
Paid clergy | Churches | Population served | People/clergy | People/church | Churches/clergy |
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17 | 36 | 83,314 (2016 census) | 4,900 | 2,314 | 2.11 |
Eastern Mission Partnership
Benefice | Churches | Link | Clergy |
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Braddan |
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St George and All Saints, Douglas | [3] |
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St Matthew, Douglas |
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[4] |
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St Ninian, Douglas |
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[5] |
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St Thomas, Douglas |
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Onchan, Lonan and Laxey |
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[6] |
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Northern Mission Partnership
Benefice | Churches | Link | Clergy |
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The Northern Plain |
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Bride, Lezayre and North Ramsey |
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Maughold and South Ramsey |
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Southern Mission Partnership
Benefice | Churches | Link | Clergy |
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Arbory and Castletown |
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Malew and Santan |
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Rushen |
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Western Mission Partnership
Benefice | Churches | Link | Clergy |
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Marown, Foxdale and Baldwin |
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[7] |
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The West Coast |
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See also
- List of churches on the Isle of Man
- Bishop of Sodor and Man
- Bishop of the Isles
- List of Church of England dioceses
- Sodor (fictional island)
References
- ^ Isle of Man parishes and their churches and chapels
- ^ Onchan, Lonan and Laxey Pastoral Scheme 2012 (SD 392/12)
- ^ "Next Archdeacon Announced". Diocese of Sodor and Man. 4 February 2022. Archived from the original on 7 February 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ Church Act 1895 (of Tynwald) section 4(2)
- ^ SD 654/12
- ^ Gumbley, K F W (2014) Mission partnerships: the legal background (Diocesan Registry)
- ^ Chapel outlined, with pictures, at the website[permanent dead link].
- ^ Hospital Chapel and current Chaplains on the Government website
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 343.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26280. Retrieved 14 October 2008. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29691. Retrieved 18 October 2007. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Moore, A W (1909) History of the Isle of Man (London), p.178
- ^ Moore, A W (1893) Sodor and Man (London), p.42
- ^ Mills, M A (1821) Ancient Ordinances and Statute Laws of the Isle of Man (Douglas) p.517
- ^ Cathedral Church Act 1980 (of Tynwald)
- ^ Bray, G. L. (2005) Records of Convocation: Sodor and Man 1229-1877 (London: Boydell and Brewer), p. 406; Anon. ed. (1875) Diocese of Sodor and Mann: Documents relating to the proposed amalgamation of that diocese with Carlisle in 1836, and with Liverpool in 1874 (London: Hatchards)
- ^ Hill M. (2007), Ecclesiastical Law (3rd ed, Oxford), paras.4.57-4.59
- ^ Gumbley, K F W (1994), Church Legislation in the Isle of Man, 3 Eccles. L.J. at p.294 [1]
- ISBN 0-434-96909-5.
- Church of England Statistics 2002 Archived 3 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- Manx Church Legislation