The Church of England Year Book 2004 (120th edition)

Unlike Crockford's Clerical Directory (RR 2004/179), its recently acquired stablemate, The Church of England Year Book, says nothing about itself – no index entry even – though I did find its e‐mail address under “Church House Publishing” on page 38, where there was also a note that “corrections are welcome”. Not that the C of E Year Book requires much explanation: it is an annual directory of information about the contemporary structure of the institution that is the Church of England.

After the preliminaries – a review of the year 2003 and a selection of statistical tables, we...