The diocese of Truro is one of the younger dioceses of the Church of England having been formed in 1876. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ...
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The present Bishop of Truro is Bishop Bill Ind. He is the Church of England’s spiritual leader in the Diocese.
The Bishop’s chair, known as a ‘Cathedra’, is the reason this building is known as a Cathedral Church.
Bishop Bill, who loves cricket, poetry and bird watching, has been known to paddle a coracle, scale church towers, and even shepherd sheep through the city.
Truro Cathedral was built in the 19th century on the site of a 16th century parish church (St Mary the Virgin) to a design by church architect John Loughborough Pearson, heavily influenced by Gothic architecture.
The present Bishop of Truro is Bishop Bill Ind. He is the 14th Bishop to hold this office.
Truro Methodist Church in Union Place has been the Methodist chapel since 1830 and the building was virtually unchanged until 2000 when substantial repair work and changes to the interior were carried out.
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