Bishop of Peterborough#Assistant bishops
{{Short description|Diocesan bishop in the Church of England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
{{For|the Canadian Roman Catholic prelate|Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough}}
{{Infobox diocese
| bishopric = Peterborough
| border = anglican
| image =
| coat = Diocese of Peterborough arms.svg
| coat_size = 200
| coat_caption = Arms of the Bishop of Peterborough: Gules, two keys in saltire addorsed the wards upwards between four cross-crosslets fitchée orDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p.882, with added "the wards upwards" for clarity, as Debrett's blazon for Bishop of Gloucester
| incumbent = Debbie Sellin
| province = Canterbury
| residence = {{nowrap|Bishop's Lodging,}} {{nowrap|The Palace,}} Peterborough
| established = 1541
| cathedral = Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, Peterborough
| first_incumbent = John Chambers
| diocese = Peterborough
}}
The Bishop of Peterborough is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Peterborough in the Province of Canterbury.
The diocese covers the counties of Northamptonshire (including the Soke of Peterborough) and Rutland. The see is in the City of Peterborough, where the bishop's seat (cathedra) is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Andrew. The bishop's residence is Bishop's Lodging, The Palace, Peterborough. The office has been in existence since the foundation of the diocese on 4 September 1541 under King Henry VIII.
The current Bishop of Peterborough is Debbie Sellin, since the confirmation, on 13 December 2023 at Lambeth Palace Chapel, of her election.{{Cite tweet |user=Peterborodio |number=1735011812402237675 |date=13 December 2023 |title=This evening Bishop Debbie was confirmed as the 39th Bishop of Peterborough... |access-date=21 December 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231221172526/https://twitter.com/Peterborodio/status/1735011812402237675 |archive-date=21 December 2023 }}
As parts of the City of Peterborough are actually in the Diocese of Ely (those parishes south of the River Nene), the last Bishop of Peterborough was appointed as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Ely with pastoral care for these parishes delegated to him by the Bishop of Ely.{{cite news|title=Religion: Bishops bridge boundaries aboard boat |url=http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=845&ArticleID=832244 |work=Peterborough Evening Telegraph |publisher=Johnston Press |date=2 August 2004 |access-date=8 March 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070826202101/http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?sectionid=845 |archive-date=26 August 2007 }}
| title = Bridging the divide in a city
| url = http://www.ely.anglican.org/news_events/media/press/details.html?id=26
| work = Diocesan website - press releases
| publisher = Diocese of Ely
| date = 29 July 2004
| access-date = 9 March 2007
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070307175451/http://www.ely.anglican.org/news_events/media/press/details.html?id=26
| archive-date = 7 March 2007
| url-status = dead
}}
List of bishops
Chronological list of the Bishops of Peterborough:
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! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Peterborough | |
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| align="center"| 1541 | align="center"| 1556 | Last Abbot of Peterborough Abbey. Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1557 | align="center"| 1559 | Deposed | |
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| align="center"| 1560 | align="center"| 1585 | Translated to Norwich | |
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| align="center"| 1585 | align="center"| 1600 | Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1601 | align="center"| 1630 | Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1630 | align="center"| 1632 | Translated to Bath & Wells | |
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| align="center"| 1633 | align="center"| 1634 | Translated to Hereford | |
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| align="center"| 1634 | align="center"| 1638 | Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1639 | align="center"| 1646 | Deprived of the see when the English episcopacy was abolished by Parliament on 9 October 1646; died 1649. | |
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| align="center"| 1646 | align="center"| 1660 | colspan=2| The 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 |jstor=564164 |doi=10.1093/ehr/lxxxiii.cccxxviii.523}} | |
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| align="center"| 1660 | align="center"| 1663 | Translated to Lincoln | |
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| align="center"| 1663 | align="center"| 1679 | Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1679 | align="center"| 1685 | |
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| align="center"| 1685 | align="center"| 1690 | Deprived of office | |
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| align="center"| 1691 | align="center"| 1718 | Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1718 | align="center"| 1728 | Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1729 | align="center"| 1747 | Translated from Llandaff; died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1747 | align="center"| 1757 | Translated to Salisbury | |
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| align="center"| 1757 | align="center"| 1764 | Translated to London | |
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| align="center"| 1764 | align="center"| 1769 | Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1769 | align="center"| 1794 | Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1794 | align="center"| 1813 | Translated from Bristol; died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1813 | align="center"| 1819 | Died in office |
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| align="center"| 1819 | align="center"| 1839 | Translated from Llandaff; died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1839 | align="center"| 1864 | Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1864 | align="center"| 1868 | Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1868 | align="center"| 1891 | Translated to York | |
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| align="center"| 1891 | align="center"| 1897 | Translated to London | |
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| align="center"| 1897 | align="center"| 1916 | John Mitchinson, assistant bishop once acted diocesan bishop during Carr-Glyn's illness.{{Church Times | title = in memoriam: John Mitchinson, Bishop. | archive = 1918_09_27_225 | issue = 2905 | date = 27 September 1918 | page = 225 | accessed = 25 May 2019 }} | |
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| align="center"| 1916 | align="center"| 1923 | Translated to Winchester | |
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| align="center"| 1924 | align="center"| 1927 | Translated to Leicester | |
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| align="center"| 1927 | align="center"| 1949 | | |
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| align="center"| 1949 | align="center"| 1956 | Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 1956 | align="center"| 1961 | Previously Bishop of Fulham; translated to London | |
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| align="center"| 1961 | align="center"| 1972 | Previously Bishop of Kensington | |
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| align="center"| 1972 | align="center"| 1984 | | |
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| align="center"| 1984 | align="center"| 1995 | Previously suffragan Bishop of Edmonton (London) | |
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| align="center"| 1996 | align="center"| 2009 | Died in office | |
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| align="center"| 2010 | align="center"| 2023 | Previously Archdeacon of Chester.{{cite web |website=Diocese of Peterborough |title=Bishop of Peterborough announces retirement |url=https://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/aboutus/news/bishop-of-peterborough-announces-retirement.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724214750/https://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/aboutus/news/bishop-of-peterborough-announces-retirement.php |archive-date=24 July 2022 |access-date=3 August 2022 }} | |
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| align="center"| 2023 | align="center"| 2023 | 60px John Holbrook (acting) | |
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| align="center"| 2023 | align="center"| present | Translated from Southampton, 13 December 2023. |
Assistant bishops
Among those called "Assistant Bishop of Peterborough" were:
- August 1881{{Church Times | title = Church News (col. 4) | archive = 1881_12_30_914 | issue = 988 | date = 30 December 1881 | page = 914 | accessed = 25 May 2019 }}{{snd}}November 1900:{{Church Times | title = Personal (col. 1) | archive = 1900_11_09_514 | issue = 1972 | date = 9 November 1900 | page = 514 | accessed = 25 May 2019 }} John Mitchinson (Rector of Sibstone then Master of Pembroke College, Oxford){{Church Times | title = Preferments and Appointments | archive = 1899_02_17_190 | issue = 8829 | date = 17 February 1899 | page = 190 | accessed = 25 May 2019 }}
- 1912–1917 (d.): Lewis Clayton, Canon residentiary of Peterborough Cathedral and former Bishop suffragan of Leicester{{Church Times | title = Church news | archive = 1912_12_27_880 | issue = 2605 | date = 27 December 1912 | page = 880 | accessed = 20 September 2020 }}
- 1926{{snd}}1945 (ret.): Norman Lang, Canon residentiary of Peterborough Cathedral; Archdeacon of Northampton (until 1936), of Oakham (thereafter); and former Bishop suffragan of Leicester{{Who's Who |id=U239639 |title=Lang, Norman Macleod}} (resigned his suffragan See due to the erection of the Diocese of Leicester, but continued in essentially the same role){{Church Times | title = in memoriam: Norman Lang, Brother of Cosmo | archive = 1956_05_11_007 | issue = 4865 | date = 11 May 1956 | page = 7 | accessed = 1 June 2019 }}
- 1950{{snd}}1963: Charles Aylen, Vicar of Flore (1945–58) and non-residentiary Canon of Peterborough (1946–61); former Bishop of St Helena{{Who's Who | id=U151898 | title=Aylen, Charles Arthur William }}
- 1952–1957 (res.): Gerald Vernon, Vicar of Finedon and former Bishop of Madagascar{{Who's Who | id= U51627 | title=Vernon, Gerald Richard }}
- 1957–1969 (d.): Weston Stewart, Rector of Cottesmore, Rutland until 1964 and former Bishop in Jerusalem{{Who's Who | id= U47621 | title=Stewart, Weston Henry }}
- 1978{{snd}}1986 (ret.):{{Church Times | title = Assistant Bishop of Peterboro' | archive = 1978_08_25_002 | issue = 6028 | date = 25 August 1978 | page = 2 | accessed = 1 June 2019 }}{{Church Times | title = Retirement of Bishop Franklin | archive = 1986_07_11_002 | issue = 6439 | date = 11 July 1986 | page = 2 | accessed = 1 June 2019 }} William Franklin. former Bishop of Colombia{{Who's Who | title=Franklin, William Alfred | id = U178507 | doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U178507 }}
Honorary assistant bishops — retired bishops taking on occasional duties voluntarily — have included:
- 1974–1978 (d.): Guy Marshall, Vicar of Blakesley with Adstone,{{Who's Who | title=Marshall, Guy | id = U157211 | doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U157211 }} former suffragan Bishop in Venezuela (Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago){{Church Times | title = Death of Bishop Guy Marshall | archive = 1978_08_11_002 | issue = 6026 | date = 11 August 1978 | page = 2 | accessed = 1 June 2019 }}
- 1975–1984 (res.): Alan Rogers, retired Bishop of Fulham and of Edmonton{{Who's Who | title=Rogers, Alan Francis Bright | id = U33014 | doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U33014 }}{{Church Times | title = Clerical Appointments | archive = 1978_01_27_013 | issue = 5998 | date = 27 January 1978 | page = 13 | accessed = 1 June 2019 }}
- 1981–1985 Paul Burrough, Rector of Empingham, Rutland and retired Bishop of Mashonaland."Who was Who" 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} [https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U9557]
See also
Notes
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References
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- Haydn, Joseph and Ockerby, Horace Haydn's Book of Dignities W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd., London, 1894 reprinted 1969
- Whitaker's Almanack Joseph Whitaker & Sons Ltd. and A&C Black Publishers Ltd., London, 1883 to 2004
- King, Richard John [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Great_Britain/England/_Topics/churches/_Texts/KINCAT*/Peterborough/2.html Handbook to the Cathedrals of England] (Part II: History of the See, with Short Notices of the principal Bishops) John Murray, London, 1862
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External links
- [http://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/ Diocese of Peterborough website]
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