Qualla: Diocese of Sodor and Man https://qualla.com/diocese-of-sodor-and-man en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/diocese-of-sodor-and-man-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Diocese of Sodor and Man https://qualla.com/diocese-of-sodor-and-man Diocese of Sodor and Man: Introduction https://qualla.com/diocese-of-sodor-and-man/ Photo credit Petepetepete at English Wikipedia, Public domain. When the Reverend W. Awdry was thinking up stories about a friendly steam locomotive in the 1940s, he needed a setting. He chose the name Sodor for his imaginary island, knowing exactly what he was doing - there was already a real Diocese of Sodor and Man in the Church of England, and the half of the name that referred to the Southern Isles of the old Norse kingdom had never been firmly attached to a particular geography. He took the name and gave it to a fictional island somewhere between the real Isle of Man and Cumbria. Decades later, generations of children would grow up thinking of Sodor as the home of Thomas and his friends, never knowing the name belonged to one of only two Church of England dioceses not in the United Kingdom.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/diocese-of-sodor-and-man-wp/gcsu-diocese-of-sodor-and-man-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Diocese of Sodor and Man: The Suðreyjar, the Southern Isles https://qualla.com/diocese-of-sodor-and-man/ Photo credit Petepetepete at English Wikipedia, Public domain. In 1154 the Norwegian church created a diocese for its overseas holdings in the Irish Sea - the Hebrides, the islands along the west coast of Scotland, and the Isle of Man. The Norse name was Suðreyjar, meaning the southern isles, in contrast to the Norðreyjar, the northern isles...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/diocese-of-sodor-and-man-wp/gcsu-diocese-of-sodor-and-man-sodor-as-mannin.mp3 0:06 3 full Diocese of Sodor and Man: A Cathedral That Took Two Hundred Years to Move https://qualla.com/diocese-of-sodor-and-man/ Photo credit Petepetepete at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The original cathedral, on St Patrick's Isle at Peel, fell into disuse during the eighteenth century. The site was a small island connected to the mainland by a causeway, exposed to the weather, and steadily ruinous. For most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the diocese ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/diocese-of-sodor-and-man-wp/gcsu-diocese-of-sodor-and-man-a-cathedral-that-took-two-hundred-years-to-move.mp3 0:06 4 full Diocese of Sodor and Man: Outside the Lords, Inside Tynwald https://qualla.com/diocese-of-sodor-and-man/ Photo credit Petepetepete at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Because the Isle of Man is not part of the United Kingdom, the Bishop of Sodor and Man cannot sit in the House of Lords as a Lord Spiritual, unlike the senior diocesan bishops of England. Instead, the bishop is an ex officio member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man, t...

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