Gloucester diocese was briefly dissolved and returned to Worcester again from 20 May 1552[3] until Queen Mary re-divided the two Sees in 1554.

The diocese has twinning links with the dioceses of Dornakal and Karnataka Central in the Church of South India, Västerås in Sweden, El Camino Real in California, USA, and Western Tanganyika in Tanzania.

It is currently supporting the work of the Diocese of Western Tanganyika to build a new high school.

The Archdeaconry of Cheltenham consists of the deaneries of Cheltenham, Cirencester, North Cotswold, and Tewkesbury, and the Archdeaconry of Gloucester consists of the deaneries of Forest South, Gloucester City, Severn Vale, Stroud, and Wotton.

The provincial episcopal visitor (for parishes in this diocese – among twelve others in the western part of the Province of Canterbury – that reject the ministry of priests who are women, since 1994) is the Bishop suffragan of Oswestry,[9] who is licensed as an honorary assistant bishop of the diocese in order to facilitate his work there.