Bishop of Gloucester
Bishop of Gloucester | |
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Bishopric | |
anglican | |
Arms of the Bishop of Gloucester: Azure, two keys addorsed in saltire the wards upwards or[1] | |
Incumbent: Rachel Treweek | |
Province | Canterbury |
Diocese | Gloucester |
Cathedral | Gloucester Cathedral |
First incumbent | John Wakeman |
Formation | 1541 |
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.
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.[2]
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);[3] she legally became the Bishop of Gloucester with the confirmation of her election on 15 June 2015.[4]
List of bishops
Chronological list of the bishops of the Diocese of Gloucester.
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
Bishops of Gloucester | |||
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From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
1541 | 1549 | ![]() |
Previously last Abbot of Tewkesbury. |
1550 | 1554 | ![]() |
Also Bishop of Worcester (1550–1554); deprived of both sees. |
1554 | 1558 | ![]() |
Died in office. |
1558 | 1562 | See vacant | |
1562 | 1579 | ![]() |
Formerly a Prebendary of Westminster Abbey. Also held Bristol in commendam (1562–1579); died in office. |
1579 | 1581 | See vacant | |
1581 | 1598 | ![]() |
Also Bishop of Bristol (1581–1589). |
1598 | 1604 | ![]() |
Formerly a Prebendary of Worcester. |
1604 | 1607 | ![]() |
Formerly Dean of Queen's College, Oxford; elected 4 March 1604; translated to London. |
1607 | 1610 | ![]() |
Formerly Dean of Chester; translated to Worcester. |
1610 | 1612 | ![]() |
Formerly Dean of Windsor; consecrated 9 June 1611; died in office. |
1612 | 1624 | ![]() |
Formerly a Canon-resident of Hereford. |
1625 | 1646 | ![]() |
Formerly Dean of Rochester; sequestrated 1640 and formally deprived 1646; converted to Roman Catholicism and died in Rome in 1655. |
1646 | 1660 | See was abolished during the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.[5][6] | |
1660 | 1672 | ![]() | Formerly Archdeacon of Brecon. |
1672 | 1681 | ![]() |
Formerly Vicar of St Giles, Cripplegate. |
1681 | 1690 | ![]() |
Formerly Dean of Gloucester; deprived in 1690. |
1691 | 1714 | ![]() |
Formerly a Prebendary of Gloucester; died in office. |
1715 | 1722 | ![]() |
Formerly Dean of Lincoln; translated to Salisbury. |
1722 | 1731 | ![]() |
Formerly a Prebendary of Westminster; translated to Rochester. |
1731 | 1733 | ![]() |
Translated from St David's. |
1734 | 1752 | ![]() |
Formerly a Prebendary of Durham. |
1752 | 1759 | ![]() |
Formerly a Canon-resident of St Paul's, London. |
1759 | 1779 | ![]() |
Formerly Dean of Bristol and preacher of Lincoln's Inn. |
1779 | 1781 | ![]() |
Translated from St David's; translated to Ely. |
1781 | 1789 | ![]() |
Translated to St Asaph. |
1789 | 1802 | ![]() |
Formerly Archdeacon of London; translated to Bath & Wells. |
1802 | 1815 | ![]() |
Formerly Warden of Winchester College; translated to Hereford. |
1815 | 1824 | ![]() |
Translated to Lichfield & Coventry. |
1824 | 1830 | ![]() |
Translated to Exeter. |
1830 | 1836 | ![]() |
Translated to Gloucester and Bristol. |
Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol Merged as a single see and diocese, 1836–1897 | |||
From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
1836 | 1856 | ![]() |
Translated from Gloucester; died in office. |
1856 | 1861 | ![]() |
Translated to Durham. |
1861 | 1863 | ![]() |
Previously Dean of Queen's College, Oxford; translated to York. |
1863 | 1897 | ![]() |
Previously Dean of Exeter; translated to Gloucester. |
Bishops of Gloucester | |||
From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
1897 | 1905 | ![]() |
Hitherto Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol. |
1905 | 1923 | ![]() |
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1923 | 1945 | ![]() |
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1946 | 1953 | ![]() |
Translated from Bristol. |
1954 | 1962 | ![]() |
Translated from Blackburn. |
1962 | 1975 | ![]() |
Translated from Bedford. |
1975 | 1992 | ![]() |
Translated from Whitby. |
1992 | 1993 | ![]() |
Translated from Lewes. |
1993 | 2003 | ![]() |
Translated from Lynn. |
2004 | 2014 | ![]() |
Formerly Dean of Derby. |
2014 | 2015 | ![]() |
Acting diocesan bishop, as Bishop suffragan of Tewkesbury.[2] |
2015 | incumbent | ![]() |
[3]Election confirmed 15 June 2015.[4] |
Source(s):[7][8][9] |
References
- ↑ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.492
- 1 2 Diocese of Gloucester – Letter from the Bishop of Tewkesbury (Accessed 7 August 2014)
- 1 2 Diocese of Gloucester — The Bishop of Gloucester Designate (Accessed 26 March 2015)
- 1 2 Archbishop of Canterbury — Diary: Bishop of Gloucester — Confirmation of Election (Accessed 27 May 2015)
- ↑ Episcopy. British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638–60. Retrieved on 20 August 2011.
- ↑ King, Peter (July 1968). "The Episcopate during the Civil Wars, 1642-1649". The English Historical Review. Oxford University Press. 83 (328): 523–537. doi:10.1093/ehr/lxxxiii.cccxxviii.523. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- ↑ "Historical successions: Gloucester". Crockford's Clerical Directory. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 248–249. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ↑ Horn, J. M. (1996). "Bishops of Gloucester". Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 8: Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough Dioceses. British History Online. pp. 40–44.