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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