Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury

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The Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire and was first created under the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534. The Bishop of Shrewsbury has particular episcopal oversight of the parishes in the Archdeaconry of Salop. The bishops suffragan of Shrewsbury have been area bishops since the Lichfield area scheme was instituted in 1992.{{cite web|title=4: The Dioceses Commission, 1978–2002 |url=http://www.churchofengland.org/media/40670/chapter4.pdf|publisher=Church of England|access-date=23 April 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401152239/https://churchofengland.org/media/40670/chapter4.pdf|archive-date=1 April 2016}}

The current bishop is Sarah Bullock, since her consecration on 3 July 2019.{{cite web |url=https://www.lichfield.anglican.org/news/2019/05/07/new-bishop-shrewsbury-announced/ |title=Diocese of Lichfield - News - New Bishop of Shrewsbury announced |website=www.lichfield.anglican.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507132810/https://www.lichfield.anglican.org/news/2019/05/07/new-bishop-shrewsbury-announced/ |archive-date=2019-05-07}}

==List of bishops==

class="wikitable" style="width:95%;" border="1" cellpadding="2" ! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Anglican Bishops of Shrewsbury
valign=top ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|From ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|Until ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="30%"|Incumbent ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="45%"|Notes
valign=top bgcolor="white" |align="center"| 1537	align="center"| 1561	Lewis Thomas	Not appointed for diocese of Lichfield, but probably for the diocese of Llandaff.
valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" |align="center"| 1561	align="center"| 1888	colspan="2"| in abeyance
valign=top bgcolor="white" |align="center"| 1888	align="center"| 1905	Sir Lovelace Stamer, Bt
valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" |align="center"| 1905	align="center"| 1940	colspan="2"| in abeyance
valign=top bgcolor="white" |align="center"| 1940	align="center"| 1944	Eric Hamilton
valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" |align="center"| 1944	align="center"| 1959	Robert Hodson
valign=top bgcolor="white" |align="center"| 1959	align="center"| 1970	William Parker
valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" |align="center"| 1970	align="center"| 1980	Francis Cocks
valign=top bgcolor="white" |align="center"| 1980	align="center"| 1987	Leslie Lloyd Rees
valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" |align="center"| 1987	align="center"| 1994	John Davies	First area bishop from 1992.
valign=top bgcolor="white" |align="center"| 1994	align="center"| 2001	David Hallatt
valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" |align="center"| 2001	align="center"| 2009	Alan Smith	Translated to St Albans
valign=top bgcolor="white" |align="center"| 2009	align="center"| 2018	Mark Rylands	Retired July 2018.[https://www.lichfield.anglican.org/news/2018/03/18/bishop-mark/ Diocese of Lichfield — Bishop Mark to bid farewell] (Accessed 22 March 2018)
valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" |align="center"| 2019	align="center"| present	Sarah Bullock	Consecrated 3 July 2019.
valign=top bgcolor="white" |align="center" colspan="4"| Source(s):{{cite book |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory |edition=100th |location=London |publisher=Church House Publishing |year=2007 |page=948 |isbn=978-0-7151-1030-0}}{{cite book |editor1-last=Fryde |editor1-first=E. B. |editor2-last=Greenway |editor2-first=D. E. |editor3-last=Porter |editor3-first=S. |editor4-last=Roy |editor4-first=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd, reprinted 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X |page=288}}