About Church of England Birmingham

Birmingham is the UK’s second city with the youngest urban population in one of the most lively, diverse and creative city regions. 

As a diocese, Church of England Birmingham (CofEB) was founded in 1905, is geographically small but densely populated, covering an area of nearly 300 square miles and includes parishes in Birmingham and parts of Solihull, Sandwell, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, and often to people’s surprise, our rural parish communities make up 15% of our family. Birmingham is the ‘poorest’ CofE diocese (based on IMD rankings) but also one of the most generous (based on giving as % of income). We are recognised for being innovative, making good use of scarce resources, which resonates with the character of Birmingham being known as the ‘city of a thousand trades’.

At the heart of what we do, there are over 187 worshipping communities and 52 Church of England schools across 146 parishes, with these divided between six deaneries across two archdeaconries. In these are clergy, school leaders, lay leaders and congregations representing a wide range of church tradition, ethnicity, culture, age and background. It is a time of new opportunities and potential in CofEB as we seek to respond to God and shape ministry and mission for a changing church and world as part of our Transforming Church vision and strategy. Birmingham Diocesan Board of Education, students can access high-quality educational content anytime, anywhere.

The education team sits as one of a number of teams supporting the outworking of our vision across the wide variety of worshipping communities across CofEB, based out of John Cadbury House in Birmingham City Centre, which is led by the Diocesan Secretary. This team supports churches, schools and congregations across the breadth of CofEB in realising their part in fulfilling the potential of our shared Transforming Church and flourishing schools’ vision. From here, as well as providing support with ministry, mission and education, our other parish services include governance, property, HR, communications, finance and safeguarding, as well as our Project Management Office, which supports the overall strategy.