Editing Wakefield (section)

==Religion==
[[File:Wakefield - Cathedral.jpg|thumb|right|[[Wakefield Cathedral]]]]
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|+Religion in Wakefield 2001<ref name="York2001">{{cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=276811&c=Wakefield&d=13&e=16&g=384621&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1258711463404&enc=1 |title=2001 Census: Census Area Statistics: Key Figures: Area: Wakefield (Local Authority) |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]] |access-date=20 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613081510/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=276811&c=Wakefield&d=13&e=16&g=384621&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1258711463404&enc=1 |archive-date=13 June 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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![[United Kingdom Census 2001|UK Census 2001]] || Wakefield || [[Yorkshire]]|| England
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|Christian||78.21%||73.07%||71.74%
|-
|No religion||11.74%||14.09%||14.59%
|-
|Muslim||1.14%||3.81%||3.1%
|-
|Buddhist||0.10%||0.14%||0.28%
|-
|Hindu||0.20%||0.32%||1.11%
|-
|Jewish||0.04%||0.23%||0.52%
|-
|Sikh||0.08%||0.38%||0.67%
|-
|Other religions||0.18%||0.19%||0.29%
|-
|Religion not stated||7.57%||7.77%||7.69%
|}
Wakefield's oldest church is All Saints, now [[Wakefield Cathedral]], a 14th-century parish church built on the site of earlier Saxon and Norman churches, restored by Sir [[George Gilbert Scott]] in the 19th&nbsp;century, and raised to cathedral status in 1888. The first [[Bishop of Wakefield (diocese)|Bishop of Wakefield]] was [[Walsham How|William Walsham How]].
In 1356 the [[Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield|Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin]] on Wakefield bridge was built originally in wood, and later in stone. This chapel is one of four chantry chapels built around Wakefield and the oldest and most ornate of the four surviving in England.<ref name="Historic Wakefield 1066-1600"/><ref name="Bridge Chapels">{{cite web |title=Bridge Chapels |url=http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/bridgechapels/bridgechapels.htm |first=Edward |last=Green |publisher=buildingconservation.com |access-date=18 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091216151649/http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/bridgechapels/bridgechapels.htm |archive-date=16 December 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>
Wakefield is also known for the [[Wakefield Mystery Plays|Wakefield Cycle]], a collection of 32 [[mystery play]]s, dating from the 14th&nbsp;century, which were performed as part of the summertime religious festival of [[Feast of Corpus Christi|Corpus Christi]] and revived in recent times.<ref name="MysteryPlays">{{cite web |title=MysteryPlays |url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/MysteryPlays/default.htm |publisher=Wakefield Council |access-date=21 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508110337/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/MysteryPlays/default.htm |archive-date=8 May 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[St John the Baptist's Church, Wakefield, West Yorkshire|St John's Church]] was built in 1795 in the [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] style. Three new Anglican [[Commissioners' church]]es, partly financed by the "Million Fund" were built as chapels of ease in the surrounding districts and were St Peter at Stanley in 1824, St Paul at Alverthorpe in 1825, and St James at Thornes in 1831.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2008|p=103}}</ref><ref name="MillionAct">{{cite web |title=The 'Million Act' Churches |work= Yorkshire Parish Registers |first1=Colin |last1=Blanshard Withers |date=6 September 2008 |url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/CBW/YPRsMillionAct.html |publisher=GENUKI |access-date=25 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091217115247/http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/CBW/YPRsMillionAct.html |archive-date=17 December 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Holy Trinity in George Street was built in 1838–9.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2008|p=106}}</ref> St Andrew's Church opened on Peterson Road in 1846 and St Mary's Church on Charles Street was consecrated in 1864. St Michael's was consecrated in 1861.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2008|p=109}}</ref>

The [[Westgate Unitarian Chapel]] dates from 1752. In the 19th&nbsp;century Wesleyan, Primitive and Independent Methodist chapels were opened and the Baptists opened a chapel in George Street in 1844.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2008|pp=99–103}}</ref><ref name="Churchpics">{{cite web |title=Church Photographs |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~framland/CHURCH/church.htm |first=Guy |last=Etchells |publisher=rootsweb.ancestry.com |access-date=25 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100317142431/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~framland/CHURCH/church.htm |archive-date=17 March 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[William Swinden Barber#Church of St John the Divine, Calder Grove, 1892|St John the Divine]] was built at Calder Grove in 1892.<ref name="LT 27 May 1893" >''[[Leeds Times]]'' Saturday 27 May 1893: "Chat in the porch"</ref><ref>''Leeds Mercury'' 24 May 1893: "The Mackie memorial church, Calder Grove"</ref>

The [[Church of England]] [[diocese]] of Wakefield covered parishes mainly in West Yorkshire, parts of South Yorkshire and five parishes in North Yorkshire.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wakefield.anglican.org/people/page/churches_and_clergy |title=Wakefield Diocese |publisher=Wakefield Diocesan Board of Finance |access-date=20 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110404211712/http://www.wakefield.anglican.org/people/page/churches_and_clergy |archive-date=4 April 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was dissolved on Easter Sunday 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales |publisher=Wakefield Diocesan Board of Finance |url=http://www.wakefield.anglican.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120918102414/http://www.wakefield.anglican.org/ |archive-date=18 September 2012}}</ref> [[Stephen Platten]] was the 12th and last [[Bishop of Wakefield (diocese)|Bishop of Wakefield]]. The [[Anglican Diocese of Leeds|Diocese of Leeds]]<ref>{{cite web |title=the Diocese of Leeds |url=http://www.leeds.anglican.org/ |access-date=13 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730171120/http://leeds.anglican.org/ |archive-date=30 July 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> now covers Wakefield.

Wakefield has two Catholic parishes – in the north [[Martin de Porres|St Martin de Porres]] incorporates the churches of [[St Austin's Church, Wakefield|St Austin's]], Wentworth Terrace, opened in 1828, and English Martyrs, opened in 1932, on Dewsbury Road, Lupset,<ref name="St Austins">{{cite web |title=St Austins |url=http://www.staustins.co.uk/pnw/ |publisher=staustins.co.uk |access-date=25 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121121230930/http://www.staustins.co.uk/pnw/ |archive-date=21 November 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and in the south, St Peter and St Paul's off Standbridge Lane which has a modern church built in 1991. Wakefield is in the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/ |title=Welcome to the Diocese of Leeds |publisher=Diocese of Leeds |access-date=20 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091121202936/http://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/ |archive-date=21 November 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Agbrigg Muslim Association have a Zakaria Masjid Mosque in Wakefield.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tijarapages.com/details.asp?bid=1973867286 |title=Agbrigg Muslim Association Zakaria Masjid |publisher=Tijarapages.com |access-date=20 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717055231/http://www.tijarapages.com/details.asp?bid=1973867286 |archive-date=17 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>