Bishop of Ebbsfleet

The see was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 8 February 1994{{London Gazette |issue=53585 |page=2143 |date=11 February 1994 }} and licensed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a "flying bishop" to provide episcopal oversight for parishes throughout the province which do not accept the sacramental ministry of bishops who have participated in the ordination of women. The position is named after Ebbsfleet in Thanet, Kent. In the southern province, the bishops of Ebbsfleet and of Richborough each ministered in 13 of the 40 dioceses; the Bishop of Ebbsfleet served the western 13 dioceses: Bath and Wells, Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry, Derby, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Oxford, Salisbury, Truro and Worcester.[http://www.ebbsfleet.org.uk/ See of Ebbsflett] Until the creation of the suffragan See of Richborough in 1995, the Bishop of Ebbsfleet served the entire area of the Province of Canterbury with the exceptions of the dioceses of London, Rochester and Southwark which came under the oversight of the Bishop of Fulham.

Jonathan Goodall was announced as the fifth Bishop of Ebbsfleet on 2 August 2013.{{Cite web|date=2013-08-02|title=Suffragan See of Ebbsfleet: nomination of Reverend Canon Jonathan Goodall approved|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/suffragan-see-of-ebbsfleet-nomination-of-reverend-canon-jonathan-goodall-approved|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812051632/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/suffragan-see-of-ebbsfleet-nomination-of-reverend-canon-jonathan-goodall-approved|archive-date=2013-08-12|website=gov.uk}} His episcopal consecration took place on 25 September 2013 at Westminster Abbey. He had been the chaplain and ecumenical secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was the fourth of the five bishops to be affiliated with the Society of the Holy Cross. On 3 September 2021 he resigned his episcopacy in order to be received into the Roman Catholic Church.{{Cite web|date=2019-09-15|title=Anglican bishop to step down, join Catholic Church|url=https://cruxnow.com/church-in-uk-and-ireland/2021/09/anglican-bishop-to-step-down-join-catholic-church/|website=cruxnow.com}}

In June 2022, it was announced that, from January 2023, oversight of traditionalist Anglo-Catholics in the west of Canterbury province (formerly the Bishop of Ebbsfleet's area) would be taken by a new Bishop of Oswestry, suffragan to the Bishop of Lichfield. Oversight of conservative evangelicals would be taken by the next Bishop of Ebbsfleet; the See of Maidstone (the original conservative evangelical flying bishop) would be left vacant, available for other uses.{{cite web |website=Diocese of Canterbury |title=Bishops of Maidstone, Ebbsfleet and Oswestry |url=https://canterburydiocese.org/our-life/news-events/news/bishops-of-maidstone-ebbsfleet-and-oswestry.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707135916/https://canterburydiocese.org/our-life/news-events/news/bishops-of-maidstone-ebbsfleet-and-oswestry.php |archive-date=7 July 2022 |access-date=3 August 2022 }} As such, from 2023, the Bishop of Ebbsfleet will provide alternative episcopal oversight to parishes who have passed resolutions that reject the ordination and/or leadership of women due to complementarian beliefs.{{cite news |last1=Thornton |first1=Ed |title=Ebbsfleet to be complementarian Evangelical: new Bishop of Oswestry to serve traditional Catholics |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/8-july/news/uk/ebbsfleet-to-be-complementarian-evangelical-new-bishop-of-oswestry-to-serve-traditional-catholics |access-date=3 December 2022 |work=Church Times |date=1 July 2022}} On 9 December 2022 the appointment was announced of Rob Munro as the next Bishop of Ebbsfleet{{cite web |title=Rob Munro named as the new Bishop of Ebbsfleet |website=Bishop of Ebbsfleet |date=9 December 2022 |url=https://www.bishopofebbsfleet.org/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209203345/https://www.bishopofebbsfleet.org/ |archive-date=9 December 2022 |access-date=9 December 2022 }}{{London Gazette |issue=63943 |page=934 |date=20 January 2023}} and he was consecrated bishop on 2 February 2023.{{cite web |website=Canterbury Cathedral |title=(Order of Service) Eucharist with the Ordination and Consecration... |date=2 February 2023 |url=https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/media/3w0hjliu/230202-consecration-2pm-final.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203194356/https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/media/3w0hjliu/230202-consecration-2pm-final.pdf |archive-date=3 February 2023 |access-date=3 February 2023 }}

==List of bishops==

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• Bishop of Beverley
• Bishop of Richborough
• List of Anglo-Catholic churches in England

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• [http://www.bishopofebbsfleet.org Bishop of Ebbsfleet website]
• [http://www.crockford.org.uk/section.asp?id=9 Crockford's Clerical Directory – listings]

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