Bishop of Peterborough
Bishop of Peterborough | |
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Bishopric | |
anglican | |
Arms of the Bishop of Peterborough: Gules, two keys in saltire addorsed the wards upwards between four cross-crosslets fitchée or[1] | |
Incumbent: Donald Allister | |
Province | Canterbury |
Diocese | Peterborough |
Cathedral | Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, Peterborough |
First incumbent | John Chambers |
Formation | 1541 |
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, Rutland and the Soke of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. 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 at The Palace in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. 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 Donald Allister. He succeeded Ian Cundy, who died in post on 7 May 2009 (two months before his announced resignation). Cundy was one of the 26 diocesan bishops who sat in the House of Lords as Lords Spiritual.
Donald Allister, who was the Archdeacon of Chester in the Diocese of Chester from 2002 to 2010, was consecrated as a bishop on 25 March 2010 at St Paul's Cathedral by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and was installed at Peterborough Cathedral on 17 April 2010.[2]
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.[3][4]
List of bishops
Chronological list of the bishops of the Diocese of Peterborough, England
Bishops of Peterborough | |||
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From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
1541 | 1556 | ![]() |
Last Abbot of Peterborough Abbey. Died in office |
1557 | 1559 | ![]() |
Deposed |
1560 | 1585 | ![]() |
Translated to Norwich |
1585 | 1600 | ![]() |
Died in office |
1601 | 1630 | ![]() |
Died in office |
1530 | 1632 | ![]() |
Translated to Bath & Wells |
1533 | 1634 | ![]() |
Translated to Hereford |
1634 | 1638 | ![]() |
Died in office |
1639 | 1646 | ![]() |
Deprived of office |
1646 | 1660 | See vacant (English Interregnum) | |
1660 | 1663 | ![]() |
Translated to Lincoln |
1663 | 1679 | ![]() |
Died in office |
1679 | 1695 | ![]() |
Translated from Llandaff; translated to Norwich |
1685 | 1690 | ![]() |
Deprived of office |
1691 | 1718 | ![]() |
Died in office |
1718 | 1728 | ![]() |
Died in office |
1729 | 1747 | ![]() |
Translated from Llandaff; died in office |
1747 | 1757 | ![]() |
Translated to Salisbury |
1757 | 1764 | ![]() |
Translated to London |
1764 | 1769 | ![]() |
Died in office |
1769 | 1794 | ![]() |
Died in office |
1794 | 1813 | ![]() |
Translated from Bristol; died in office |
1813 | 1819 | ![]() | Died in office |
1819 | 1839 | ![]() |
Translated from Llandaff; died in office |
1839 | 1864 | ![]() |
Died in office |
1864 | 1868 | ![]() |
Died in office |
1868 | 1891 | ![]() |
Translated to York |
1891 | 1897 | ![]() |
Translated to London |
1897 | 1916 | ![]() |
|
1916 | 1923 | ![]() |
Translated to Winchester |
1924 | 1927 | ![]() |
Translated to Leicester |
1927 | 1949 | ![]() |
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1949 | 1956 | ![]() |
Died in office |
1956 | 1961 | ![]() |
Previously Bishop of Fulham; translated to London |
1961 | 1972 | ![]() |
Previously Bishop of Kensington |
1972 | 1984 | ![]() |
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1984 | 1995 | ![]() |
Previously Suffragan Bishop of Edmonton (London) |
1996 | 2009 | ![]() |
Died in office |
2010 | incumbent | ![]() |
Previously Archdeacon of Chester |
See also
Notes
- ↑ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.882, with added "the wards upwards" for clarity, as Debrett's blazon for Bishop of Gloucester
- ↑ "Diocese of Peterborough". Website of the Diocese of Peterborough. 8 August 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
- ↑ "Religion: Bishops bridge boundaries aboard boat". Peterborough Evening Telegraph. Johnston Press. 2 August 2004. Archived from the original on August 26, 2007. Retrieved 8 March 2007.
- ↑ "Bridging the divide in a city". Diocesan website - press releases. Diocese of Ely. 29 July 2004. Retrieved 9 March 2007.
References
- 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 Handbook to the Cathedrals of England (Part II: History of the See, with Short Notices of the principal Bishops) John Murray, London, 1862