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The diocese covers most of the County of Leicestershire. The see is in the City of Leicester where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Martin, formerly a parish church, which was elevated to cathedral status in 1927.

The area first held a bishopric in 680, and the Saxon cathedral was probably located close to (if not on the site of) the present cathedral. The original diocese fell victim to the invasion by the Danes around 870. At the time of the Reformation, in 1539 a new cathedral was being erected. However this structure was never completed and it was another three centuries before Leicester was finally to regain its see in 1927. Before this time however there had been suffragan bishops of Leicester whilst the bishopric was still within the its parent diocese. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Dr Timothy John Tim Stevens, the 6th Lord Bishop of Leicester, who signs Timothy Leicester.

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Leicester, England and its precursor offices

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
18 June 1888 to ????	Francis Henry Thicknesse, Suffragan Bishop of Leicester	Archdeacon of Northampton
1927 to ????	…, Bishop of Leicester
???? to 1953	…
1953 to 1979	Ronald Ralph Williams, DD
1979 to 1991	Cecil Richard Rutt, CBE
1991 to 1999	Dr Thomas Frederick Butler, BSc	Translated to Southwark
1999 to present	Dr Timothy John Tim Stevens	Suffragan Bishop of Warwick


Anglican Hierarchy in Great Britain
The Church of England
Provinces	Dioceses
Canterbury	Bath & Wells \| Birmingham \| Bristol \| Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich \| Chelmsford \| Chichester \| Coventry \| Derby \| Ely \| Exeter \| Gibraltar in Europe \| Gloucester \| Guildford \| Hereford \| Leicester \| Lichfield \| Lincoln \| London \| Norwich \| Oxford \| Peterborough \| Portsmouth \| Rochester \| Saint Albans \| Salisbury \| Southwark \| Truro \| Winchester \| Worcester
York	Blackburn \| Bradford \| Carlisle \| Chester \| Durham \| Liverpool \| Manchester \| Newcastle \| Ripon and Leeds \| Sheffield \| Sodor & Man \| Southwell \| Wakefield
The Church in Wales
Wales	Bangor \| Llandaff \| Monmouth \| Saint Asaph \| Saint David's \| Swansea & Brecon
The Scottish Episcopal Church
Primus	Aberdeen and Orkney \| Argyll & the Isles \| Brechin \| Edinburgh \| Glasgow & Galloway \| Moray, Ross & Caithness \| Saint Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane
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Leicester - definition of Leicester in Encyclopedia (1464 words)
	In the 9th century, Leicester was captured by the Danes (Vikings) and became one of the five boroughs (fortified towns) of Danelaw although this position was short lived.
	Leicester is expected to become the first major city in England in which the non-white population will form a majority, this is expected to have happened by the year 2012.
	The City of Leicester's coat of arms was first granted to the city at the Heraldic Visitation of 1619, and is based on the arms of the First Earl of Leicester, Robert Beaumont.

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List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Leicester, England and its precursor offices

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