Diocese of Salisbury

The Diocese of Salisbury (Latin: Dioecesis Saresberiensis ) is an Anglican diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury Church of England, based in Salisbury. Until the English Reformation, it was a Roman Catholic diocese.

History

The Diocese of Salisbury was born in 1075 as a result of the merger of the diocese of Sarum dioceses Ramsbury and Sherborne. On March 29, 1218 the Diocese of Sarum was by Pope Honorius III. renamed the Diocese of Salisbury.

The last Roman Catholic bishop, Francis Mallet, fled in 1559 from England.

The Diocese of Salisbury was the archbishopric of Canterbury, is a suffragan.