Bishop of Gloucester#Assistant bishops
{{Short description|Diocesan bishop in the Church of England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox diocese
| bishopric = Gloucester
| border = anglican
| coat = Diocese of Gloucester arms.svg
| coat_size = 200
| coat_caption = Arms of the Bishop of Gloucester: Azure, two keys addorsed in saltire the wards upwards orDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 492
| incumbent = Rachel Treweek
| province = Canterbury
| residence = Bishopscourt, Gloucester
| established = 1541
| cathedral = Gloucester Cathedral
| first_incumbent = John Wakeman
| diocese = Gloucester
}}
The Bishop of Gloucester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester in the Province of Canterbury.
The diocese covers the County of Gloucestershire and part of the County of Worcestershire. The see's centre of governance is the City of Gloucester where the bishop's chair (cathedra) is located in the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity.
The bishop's residence is Bishopscourt, Gloucester; very near the Cathedral.{{Crockford| surname =Treweek | forename = Rachel | id =581 | accessed = 30 November 2015}}
The office has been in existence since the foundation of the see in 1541 under King Henry VIII from part of the Diocese of Worcester. On 5 August 2014, Martyn Snow, the suffragan Bishop of Tewkesbury, became acting bishop of Gloucester.[http://gloucester.anglican.org/letter-from-the-bishop-of-tewkesbury.php Diocese of Gloucester – Letter from the Bishop of Tewkesbury] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808044502/http://gloucester.anglican.org/letter-from-the-bishop-of-tewkesbury.php |date=2014-08-08 }} (Accessed 7 August 2014)
On 26 March 2015, it was announced that Rachel Treweek was to become the next bishop of Gloucester (and the first woman to serve as a diocesan bishop in the Church of England);[http://www.gloucester.anglican.org/about/the-bishop-of-gloucester-designate/ Diocese of Gloucester – The Bishop of Gloucester Designate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402114754/http://www.gloucester.anglican.org/about/the-bishop-of-gloucester-designate/ |date=2015-04-02 }} (Accessed 26 March 2015) she legally became the bishop of Gloucester with the confirmation of her election on 15 June 2015.[http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/diary.php/5159/bishop-of-gloucester-confirmation-of-election Archbishop of Canterbury – Diary: Bishop of Gloucester – Confirmation of Election] (Accessed 27 May 2015)
List of bishops
Chronological list of the bishops of the Diocese of Gloucester.
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
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! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Gloucester | |
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| align="center" | 1541 | align="center" | 1549 | Previously last Abbot of Tewkesbury. | |
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| align="center" | 1550 | align="center" | 1552 | Translated to Worcester and Gloucester.{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae|period=1541–1857|volume=7|pages=105–109}} | |
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| align="center" | 1552 | align="center" | 1554 | colspan="2" | See dissolved and returned to Worcester diocese | |
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| align="center" | 1554 | align="center" | 1558 | Died in office. | |
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| align="center"| 1558 |align="center"| 1562 |colspan="2"| See vacant | |
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| align="center" | 1562 | align="center" | 1579 | Formerly a Prebendary of Westminster Abbey. Also held Bristol in commendam (1562–1579); died in office. | |
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| align="center" | 1579 | align="center" | 1581 | colspan="2"| See vacant | |
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| align="center" | 1581 | align="center" | 1598 | Also Bishop of Bristol (1581–1589). | |
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| align="center" | 1598 | align="center" | 1604 | Formerly a Prebendary of Worcester. | |
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| align="center" | 1604 | align="center" | 1607 | Formerly Dean of Queen's College, Oxford; elected 4 March 1604; translated to London. | |
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| align="center" | 1607 | align="center" | 1610 | Formerly Dean of Chester; translated to Worcester. | |
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| align="center" | 1610 | align="center" | 1612 | Formerly Dean of Windsor; consecrated 9 June 1611; died in office. | |
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| align="center" | 1612 | align="center" | 1624 | |
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| align="center" | 1625 | align="center" | 1646 | Formerly Dean of Rochester; sequestrated 1640 and formally deprived 1646; converted to Roman Catholicism and died in Rome in 1655. | |
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| align="center" | 1646 | align="center" | 1660 | colspan="2"| See was abolished during the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.{{cite web |last=Plant |first=David |year=2002 |url=http://bcw-project.org/church-and-state/sects-and-factions/episcopalians |title=Episcopalians |website=BCW Project |access-date=25 April 2021 }}{{cite journal |last=King |first=Peter |date=July 1968 |title=The Episcopate during the Civil Wars, 1642–1649 |journal=The English Historical Review |volume= 83 |issue= 328 |pages=523–537 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ehr/lxxxiii.cccxxviii.523|jstor=564164 }} | |
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| align="center" | 1660 | align="center" | 1672 | Formerly Archdeacon of Brecon. |
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| align="center" | 1672 | align="center" | 1681 | Formerly Vicar of St Giles, Cripplegate. | |
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| align="center" | 1681 | align="center" | 1690 | Formerly Dean of Gloucester; deprived in 1690. | |
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| align="center" | 1691 | align="center" | 1714 | Formerly a Prebendary of Gloucester; died in office. | |
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| align="center" | 1715 | align="center" | 1722 | Formerly Dean of Lincoln; translated to Salisbury. | |
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| align="center" | 1722 | align="center" | 1731 | Formerly a Prebendary of Westminster; translated to Rochester. | |
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| align="center" | 1731 | align="center" | 1733 | Translated from St David's. | |
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| align="center" | 1734 | align="center" | 1752 | Formerly a Prebendary of Durham. | |
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| align="center" | 1752 | align="center" | 1759 | Formerly a Canon-resident of St Paul's, London; translated to Worcester. | |
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| align="center" | 1759 | align="center" | 1779 | Formerly Dean of Bristol and preacher of Lincoln's Inn. | |
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| align="center" | 1779 | align="center" | 1781 | Translated from St David's; translated to Ely. | |
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| align="center" | 1781 | align="center" | 1789 | Translated to St Asaph. | |
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| align="center" | 1789 | align="center" | 1802 | Formerly Archdeacon of London; translated to Bath & Wells. | |
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| align="center" | 1802 | align="center" | 1815 | Formerly Warden of Winchester College; translated to Hereford. | |
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| align="center" | 1815 | align="center" | 1824 | Translated to Lichfield & Coventry. | |
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| align="center" | 1824 | align="center" | 1830 | Translated to Exeter. | |
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| align="center" | 1830 | align="center" | 1836 | Translated to Gloucester and Bristol. | |
| colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;" | Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol Merged as a single see and diocese, 1836–1897 | |
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| style="text-align: center;" | 1836 | style="text-align: center;" | 1856 | Translated from Gloucester; died in office. | |
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| style="text-align: center;" | 1856 | style="text-align: center;" | 1861 | Translated to Durham. | |
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| style="text-align: center;" | 1861 | style="text-align: center;" | 1863 | Previously Dean of Queen's College, Oxford; translated to York. | |
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| style="text-align: center;" | 1863 | style="text-align: center;" | 1897 | Previously Dean of Exeter; translated to Gloucester. | |
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! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Gloucester | |
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| align="center"| 1897 | align="center"| 1905 | Hitherto Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol. | |
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| align="center"| 1905 | align="center"| 1923 | | |
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| align="center"| 1923 | align="center"| 1945 | | |
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| align="center"| 1946 | align="center"| 1953 | Translated from Bristol. | |
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| align="center"| 1954 | align="center"| 1962 | 60px Wilfred Askwith {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG}} | Translated from Blackburn. | |
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| align="center"| 1962 | align="center"| 1975 | Translated from Bedford. | |
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| align="center" | 1975 | align="center" | 1992 | Translated from Whitby. | |
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| align="center"| 1992 | align="center"| 1993 | 60px Peter Ball {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CGA}} | Translated from Lewes. | |
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| align="center"| 1993 | align="center"| 2003 | Translated from Lynn. | |
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| align="center"| 2004 | align="center"| 2014 | Formerly Dean of Derby. | |
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| align="center"| 2014 | align="center"| 2015 | Acting diocesan bishop, as suffragan Bishop of Tewkesbury. | |
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| align="center"| 2015 | align="center"| incumbent | Election confirmed 15 June 2015. | |
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|align=center colspan="4"| Source(s):{{cite web |url=http://www.crockford.org.uk/listing.asp?id=694 |title=Historical successions: Gloucester |work=Crockford's Clerical Directory |access-date=18 July 2012}}{{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=978-0-521-56350-5 |pages=248–249}}{{Cite book |last1=Horn |first1=J. M. |year=1996 |chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35314 |chapter=Bishops of Gloucester |title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 8: Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough Dioceses |publisher=British History Online |pages=40–44}} |
Assistant bishops
Among those who have served as assistant bishops in the diocese were:
- 1892–?: Samuel Marsden (also Assistant Bishop of Bristol after 1897), former Bishop of Bathurst{{Who's Who | id= U188680 | title=Marsden, Samuel Edward }}
- 1929{{snd}}1954 (d.): James Palmer, former Bishop in Bombay{{Who's Who |id=U241538 |title=Palmer, Edwin James}}
- Lumsden Barkway, former Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, undertook some bishop's duties in Gloucestershire around 1954{{Church Times | title = Ordinations on Trinity Sunday | archive = 1954_06_18_477 | issue = 4767 | date = 18 June 1954 | page = 477 | accessed = 4 December 2019 }}
- 1955–1956 (res.): Ronald O'Ferrall, Rector of Cranham; former Bishop in Madagascar and Assistant Bishop of Derby{{Who's Who| id=U158102 | title=O'Ferrall, Ronald Stanhope More}}
Among those who have served as (honorary) assistant bishops in retirement have been:
- 2005{{snd}}2020 (d.): Patrick Harris, retired Bishop of Southwell{{Church Times | title = Gazette: appointments | archive = 2005_12_02_027 | issue = 7447 | date = 2 December 2005 | page = 27 | accessed = 13 February 2021 }}
- 2005{{snd}}2011 (res.): Peter Vaughan, retired Bishop suffragan of Ramsbury
- 2005{{snd}}2008 (d.): Jonathan Bailey, retired Bishop of Derby
References
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External links
- [http://www.gloucester.anglican.org/about/the-bishops/ Bishop of Gloucester's homepage]
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