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of 17 December 1540, which reconstituted the former monastery of St Peter, Westminster (today generally known simply as "Westminster Abbey") as a cathedral, with a bishop, dean and twelve canons.
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became Bishop of London and Westminster. In 1552 an act of parliament of confirmed the status of Westminster as a "cathedral church and episcopal see to the
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In 1550 the diocese of Westminster was reunited with that of London. Thirlby surrendered the diocese on 30 March and was made Bishop of Norwich, while
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was appointed as the bishop and William Benson or Boston, who had been abbot of Westminster before the Dissolution, became dean; the
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Westminster Abbey, which served as St Peter's Cathedral of the Diocese of Westminster
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The diocese was one of six founded by Henry VIII in 1539–40, with the churches of
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The ordinary of the diocese throughout its existence was the
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J.S. Cockburn; H.P.F. King; K.G.T. McDonnell, eds. (1969).
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moved into the jurisdiction of the new diocese and bishop.
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General Synod-Dioceses Commission-Background and history
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abbeys serving as their cathedrals. The others were
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster

Ecclesiastical province
Canterbury
Archdeaconries
Middlesex
Westminster Abbey
Church of England
Westminster Abbey
dissolved
Bristol
Chester
Gloucester
Oxford
Peterborough
Diocese of London
city
Middlesex
Fulham
Fulham Palace
Bishop of London
letters patent
Thomas Thirlby
Middlesex archdeaconry
Nicholas Ridley
bishop of London
Diocese of Westminster
Thomas Thirlby
Westminster Abbey
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