The diocese began life as the Archdeaconry of Derby and was originally part of the Diocese of Lichfield.

It was moved to form part of the Diocese of Southwell, when that diocese was created in 1884.

In 1927 the Archdeaconries of Derby and Chesterfield became the new Diocese of Derby, as a response to population growth. 

All Saints Derby was hallowed as the Cathedral on the 28th October 1927 and the next day the first Bishop of Derby, Edmund Pearce, was installed.   

Although only founded as a separate diocese in 1927, the county has a long and rich Christian history.

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Here are some facts and figures about the Diocese of Derby.

• All the Anglican (Church of England) churches in the UK fall into either the province of Canterbury, or the province of York. The Diocese of Derby is in the Canterbury province. Read more about the Church of England and how it is structured on www.cofe.anglican.org
• The geographical boundaries of the Diocese of Derby and the County of Derbyshire are virtually identical.
• The geographical area of the Diocese is around 997 square miles.
• Its population is around 1,056,000 (the City of Derby is around 261,400).
  (Source- Population of local authorities from Census date 2021)
• There are 255 parishes.
• There are 330 Church of England churches in the diocese.
• There are 220 licensed clergy (150 stipendiary 70 NSM).
• There are 70+ licensed lay readers.
• Derby was founded as a city in 1977.
• The Collegiate and Parish Church of All Saints became a Cathedral on Thursday, 7 July, 1927, although not hallowed until Friday, 27 October, 1927. It cost £10,000 to adapt the church into a Cathedral.
• The Diocese is divided into three Archdeaconries: Derbyshire Peak and Dales, East Derbyshire and Derby City and South Derbyshire.
• The Diocese is divided further into eight Deaneries: Peak, Carsington, and Dove and Derwent in Derbyshire Peak and Dales; North East, Hardwick, and South East in East Derbyshire; Derby City and Mercia in the Archdeaconry of Derby City and South Derbyshire. 
• Since the Diocese was legally inaugurated in 1927, there have been eight diocesan bishops
  • Edmund Pearce - 1927 - 1936
  • Alfred Rawlinson - 1936- 1959
  • Geoffrey Allen - 1959 - 1969
  • Cyril Bowles - 1969 - 1988
  • Peter Dawes - 1988 - 1995
  • Jonathan Bailey - 1995 - 2005
  • Alastair Redfern - 2005 - 2018
  • Libby Lane - 2019 - present
• There have been two suffragan (or assistant) Bishops of Derby (when Derby was part of the Southwell Diocese before 1927):
  • Edward Ash Were - appointed 1889
  • Charles Thomas Abraham - appointed 1909
• There have been seven Bishops of Repton:
  • William Warren Hunt - 1965 - 1977
  • Stephen Edmund Verney - 1977 - 1985
  • Francis Henry Arthur Richmond -1986 - 1999
  • David Christopher Hawtin - 1999 - 2007
  • Humphrey Southern -  2007 - 2015
  • Jan McFarlane -  2016 - 2020
  • Malcolm Macnaughton -  2021 - present

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The Capability Procedure enables the bishop to address, through a fair and transparent process, the problems that arise when clergy fail, for whatever reason, to perform their duties to an acceptable standard. The procedure is designed to be supportive and to give clergy the time, training and resources they need to improve. If in the last resort an officeholder is removed under this procedure, he or she will have the right to bring a claim of unfair dismissal to an independent employment tribunal.

Copies of the Code of Practice and the guidelines can be obtained from https://www.churchofengland.org/search-results?keys=common+tenure

It is important to note that the purpose of the capability procedure is improvement. It is also appropriate to draw your attention to the words in Part I Introductory note of the Code of Practice (Page3) which makes it clear that it is expected that most performance related matters will be identified and addressed informally without engaging the procedure. Nevertheless there will be times when informal steps will not be appropriate and in these instances the procedure will be used.

The Diocese undertakes to train all those who will be involved in capability panels so that they may properly fulfill the requirements of the procedure and the principles that underlie it. Further detail of the Diocesan approach may be found in Section 9 of the Clergy Handbook (Common Tenure)