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 NORWICH.

��III 10 dioce30 of Norwich, prior to the alterations made by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners appointed in 1835, contained the whole county of Norfolk, ex- cept Emneth, which belonged t< the diocese of Ely ; and all Suffolk, excepl Preckenham, which belonged to that of Rochester; and Hadleigh, Monks Illeigh, and Moulton, which wen' peculiars 1 belonging to the see of Canterbury. It also had sixteen churches and chapels in Cambridgeshire.

In it were four archdeaconries, viz. Norwich, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Sudbury.

The members of the cathedral body now are the dean. the three first-mentioned archdeacons, six major ca- nons or prebendaries, six minor canons, &c.

Sigiberht, king of East Anglia, on his return from France, after the death of Earpwald, who had de- posed him. established an episcopal see at Domnoc,

1 The order in council 20th tismere ; and the last-mentioned May 1847 abolished peculiar deanery and the deanery of and exempt jurisdictions in the Stow, also in the archdeaconry diocese of Norwich. of Sudbury, were detached and

2 By order in council 19th dissevered from the said arch- April 1837 the parish of Rick- deaconry of Sudbury, and in- inghall Inferior in the deanery eluded in the archdeaconry of of Blackburne, but united with Suffolk. The archdeaconry of the parish of Rickinghall Supe- Sudbury, with the before-men- rior in the deanery of Harris- tioned exceptions, was also de- mere, both in the archdeaconry tached and dissevered from the of Sudbury, was detached from diocese of Norwich, and perma- the deanery of Blackburne and nently annexed and united to included in the deanery of Har- the diocese of Ely.

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