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Ely Cathedral
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principal church of the Diocese of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Key facts
- Location
- Ely, Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Previous denomination
- Roman Catholic
- Tradition
- Broad church
- Website
- www .elycathedral .org
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Style
- Romanesque , English Gothic
- Years built
- 1083–1375
- Length
- 163.7 m (537 ft)
- Height
- 66 m (217 ft)
- Province
- Canterbury
- Diocese
- Ely
- Bishop s
- Sarah Clark , Dagmar Winter ( Suffragan Bishop )
- Dean
- Mark Bonney
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Holy Trinity
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Ely
- Dedicated to
- Holy Trinity
- Official website
- www.elycathedral.org
- Image
- Ely Cathedral February 2018 021.jpg
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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- Commons category
- Ely Cathedral
- architectural style
- Norman architecture
- diocese
- Anglican Diocese of Ely
- inception
- 1083-00-00
- OS grid reference
- TL5404680281
- native label
- Ely Cathedral
- Christian liturgical rite
- Church of England
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Encyclopedic overview
Ely Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
The cathedral can trace its origin to the abbey founded in Ely in 672 by St Æthelthryth (also called Etheldreda). The earliest parts of the present building date to 1083, and it was granted cathedral status in 1109. Until the Reformation, the cathedral was dedicated to St Etheldreda and St Peter, at which point it was refounded as the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely. It is the cathedral of the Diocese of Ely, which covers most of Cambridgeshire and western Norfolk, and Huntingdonshire. It is the seat of the Bishop of Ely and a suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ely Cathedral” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.