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| image = Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire.jpg
| caption = [[Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire|Ely Cathedral]]
| Province = Canterbury
| Archdeaconries   = Cambridge, Huntingdon and Wisbech
| Bishops Court = Court of the Bishop of Ely (Episcopal Consistory) 
| Archive = [[Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies]]
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The '''Diocese of Ely''' forms part of the [[Province of Canterbury]] of the [[Church of England]]. 

=== History ===
The diocese was created in 1109 out of part of the [[Diocese of Lincoln]] to cover the historic county of [[Cambridgeshire Genealogy|Cambridgeshire]] and the [[Isle of Ely]]. The boundaries have been subsequently altered various times. [[Bedfordshire Genealogy|Bedfordshire]] and [[Huntingdonshire Genealogy|Huntingdonshire]] were added in 1837 from the [[Diocese of Lincoln]], as was the Sudbury archdeaconry in [[Suffolk Genealogy|Suffolk]], from the [[Diocese of Norwich]]. In 1914 [[Bedfordshire Genealogy|Bedfordshire]] became part of the [[Diocese of St Albans]], and western [[Suffolk Genealogy|Suffolk]] became part of the [[Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich]], whilst Ely took the western part of the [[Diocese of Norwich]]. [[Peterborough, Cambridgeshire|Peterborough]] remains the seat of the [[Diocese of Peterborough]].

The present area of the diocese covers:
* [[Cambridgeshire Genealogy|Cambridgeshire]] (except the [[Soke of Peterborough]]) 
* [[Norfolk Genealogy|Norfolk]] west of the River Great Ouse

=== Archdeaconries and deaneries ===

The diocese is divided into two [[Archdeaconry (England)|Archdeaconries]] containing a total of fourteen [[Rural Deanery (England)|deaneries]]:
*the '''Archdeaconry of Cambridge'''
**comprises the Deaneries of Bourn; Cambridge; Fordham and Quy; Granta; North Stowe; and Shingay
*the '''Archdeaconry of Huntingdon and Wisbech'''
**comprises the Deaneries of Ely; Fincham and Feltwell; Huntingdon; March; St. Ives; St. Neots; Wisbech Lynn Marshland; and Yaxley

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