bishop of Stepney
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The Bishop of Stepney is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Stepney, an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The post is held by Joanne Grenfell{{Cite web|url=https://www.london.anglican.org/articles/new-bishop-of-stepney-announced/|title=New Bishop of Stepney announced|date=May 7, 2019}} whose consecration as bishop, and start of her tenure as Bishop of Stepney, was on 3 July 2019 at St Paul's Cathedral;{{cite web|url=https://www.london.anglican.org/articles/new-bishop-of-stepney-announced/ |title=New Bishop of Stepney announced | Diocese of London |publisher=London.anglican.org |date=2019-05-07 |access-date=2020-05-14}} the principal consecrator was Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury.{{cite web|url=https://www.london.anglican.org/articles/new-bishop-of-stepney-consecrated-at-st-pauls/ |title=New Bishop of Stepney consecrated at St Paul’s | Diocese of London |publisher=London.anglican.org |date=2019-07-03 |access-date=2020-05-14}}
The first bishop was appointed to take responsibility for North and East London, which had been under the care of the Bishop of Bedford; the new See was erected because the retiring bishop Robert Billing retained the See of Bedford, and Stepney was a more obvious See for the suffragan for the East End.{{Church Times | title = Church news | archive = 1895_04_11_418 | issue = 1681 | date = 11 April 1895 | page = 418 | accessed = 19 September 2020 }} In 1898, the new Bishop of Islington received responsibility for North London.{{Church Times | title = London diocesan conference | archive = 1898_04_29_468 | issue = 1840 | date = 29 April 1898 | page = 468 | accessed = 19 September 2020 }} In the experimental area scheme of 1970, the bishop was given oversight of the deaneries of Tower Hamlets, Hackney, and Islington.{{Church Times | title = Virtual autonomy for London's ‘area bishops’? | archive = 1970_02_20_01 | issue = 5584 | date = 20 February 1970 | page = 1 | accessed = 29 September 2020 }} The Bishops suffragan of Stepney have been area bishops since the London area scheme was founded in 1979.{{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/20120607020502/http://www.churchofengland.org/media/40670/chapter4.pdf|archive-date=7 June 2012}}
List of bishops
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! colspan="5" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Stepney |
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| align="center"| 1895 | align="center"| 1897 | File:GeorgeForrestBrowne2.jpg | (1833–1930). Translated to Bristol |
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| align="center"| 1897 | align="center"| 1901{{London Gazette |issue=27308 |date=26 April 1901 |page=2855}} | File:Arthur Winnington-Ingram before 1939.png | (1858–1946). Translated to London |
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| align="center"| 1909 | (1864–1945). Translated to York, and later to Canterbury |
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| align="center"| 1909 | align="center"| 1919 | File:Henry Luke Paget, Rotary.jpg | (1853–1937). Formerly Bishop of Ipswich. Translated to Chester |
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| align="center"| 1919 | align="center"| 1928 | File:Henry Mosley (bishop) (1).png | (1868–1948). Translated to Southwell |
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| align="center"| 1928 | align="center"| 1936 | File:Charles Edward Curzon.png | (1878–1954). Translated to Exeter |
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| align="center"| 1936 | align="center"| 1952 | File:Robert Hamilton Moberly.png | (1884–1978) |
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| align="center"| 1952 | align="center"| 1957 | | (1908–1968) |
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| align="center"| 1957 | align="center"| 1968 | | (1900–1982) |
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| align="center"| 1968 | align="center"| 1978 | File:TrevorHuddlestonStatueBedford (cropped).JPG | (1913–1998). Translated to Mauritius |
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| align="center"| 1978 | align="center"| 1991 | | (1936–2003). First area bishop from 1979; translated to Bath and Wells |
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| align="center"| 1992 | align="center"| 1995 | File:Richard Chartres Bishop of London.jpg | (b. 1947). Consecrated on 22 May 1992. Translated to London in 1995 |
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| align="center"| 1996 | align="center"| 2002 | File:Official portrait of The Lord Archbishop of York crop 2.jpg | (b. 1949). Translated to Birmingham, and later to York |
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| align="center"| 2003 | align="center"| 2010 | | (b. 1948) Retired 6 July 2010 |
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| align="center"| 2010 | align="center"| 2011 | File:Rose-vestment-bishop-willesden (cropped).jpg | Pete Broadbent | Acted as Bishop of Stepney from 7 July 2010,[http://communications.london.anglican.org/ministrymatters/2010/06/acting-bishop-of-stepney/ Diocese of London — Ad clerum: Acting Bishop of Stepney] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721180749/http://communications.london.anglican.org/ministrymatters/2010/06/acting-bishop-of-stepney/ |date=July 21, 2011 }}[http://communications.london.anglican.org/ministrymatters/2011/01/ad-clerum-the-bishop-of-willesden/ Diocese of London — Ad clerum: The Bishop of Willesden] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721180731/http://communications.london.anglican.org/ministrymatters/2011/01/ad-clerum-the-bishop-of-willesden/ |date=July 21, 2011 }} effectively suspended from 23 November 2010 to 10 January 2011, resumed as Acting Bishop until 22 July 2011. |
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| align="center"| 2011 | align="center"| 2018 | | Adrian Newman{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/suffragan-bishop-of-stepney|title=Suffragan Bishop of Stepney|website=GOV.UK}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.london.anglican.org/news/|title=Latest news}} | (b. 1958) Resigned on 31 October 2018 on health grounds.[https://www.london.anglican.org/articles/bishop-stepney-to-step-down/ Bishop of Stepney to step down] (Accessed 24 July 2018) |
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| align="center"| 2018 | align="center"| 2019 | File:Rose-vestment-bishop-willesden (cropped).jpg | Pete Broadbent | Acting as Bishop of Stepney from 31 October 2018 until Grenfell's consecration. |
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| align="center"| 2019 | align="center"| present | |
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|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}} |
References
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External links
- [http://www.crockford.org.uk/section.asp?id=9 Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings]
- * {{cite web |title=The Bishop of Stepney |url=http://www.stgitehistory.org.uk/bishopofstepney.html |website=St George in the East Church |publisher=St George in the East PCC |access-date=23 October 2019}}
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