Welcome...
Welcome to the Bath and Wells 1100th website, the hub of this very special year that will see the Diocese come together to:
- Give thanks for the past
- Celebrate the present
- Challenge the future
Explore...
There are things to explore already, and the site will be updated regularly as plans become confirmed.
Why not take a look at Peter's Progress, and see where +Peter will be each day across May and June?
Or learn more about the major day of celebration being planned for 4th July 2009 in and around Glastonbury Abbey?
1100 years... how it started
The Diocese of Bath and Wells was formed in 909 so this year is its eleven hundredth anniversary. In earlier times, bishops of Sherborne had been the spiritual leaders of all of south-west England.
Sherborne Abbey
It was too large an area to care for properly, and so the huge diocese was divided. In 909 bishops were appointed to Wells and Crediton. So for 1100 years the people of Somerset have had their own bishop. They took different titles as they moved their headquarters but they had a common aim: to proclaim God to each generation.
The Official Charity of the 1100th Celebrations