The Church of England has a system of pastoral oversight, which seeks to ensure that ever individual in England has the opportunity to share in Christian to worship and to receive pastoral care. The method by which this is achieved is by dividing the country into two provinces with their own Archbishop. Dr. David Hope is the Archbishop of York and Dr. Rowan Williams is the Archbishop of Canterbury. There are forty-three dioceses within the two provinces. Each Diocese is divided into a small number of archdeaneries, which are then divided into deaneries. The deaneries contain a small group of individual parishes.      

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