Bishop of Gloucester

Diocesan bishop in the Church of England

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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);^[4] she legally became the bishop of Gloucester with the confirmation of her election on 15 June 2015.^[5]

List of bishops

Chronological list of the bishops of the Diocese of Gloucester.

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

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^[12]
• 1929 – 1954 (d.): James Palmer, former Bishop in Bombay^[13]
• Lumsden Barkway, former Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, undertook some bishop's duties in Gloucestershire around 1954^[14]
• 1955–1956 (res.): Ronald O'Ferrall, Rector of Cranham; former Bishop in Madagascar and Assistant Bishop of Derby^[15]

Among those who have served as (honorary) assistant bishops in retirement have been:

• 2005 – 2020 (d.): Patrick Harris, retired Bishop of Southwell^[16]
• 2005 – 2011 (res.): Peter Vaughan, retired Bishop suffragan of Ramsbury^[16]
• 2005 – 2008 (d.): Jonathan Bailey, retired Bishop of Derby^[16]

References

1. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 492
2. "Rachel Treweek". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
3. Diocese of Gloucester – Letter from the Bishop of Tewkesbury Archived 2014-08-08 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 7 August 2014)
4. Diocese of Gloucester – The Bishop of Gloucester Designate Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 26 March 2015)
5. Archbishop of Canterbury – Diary: Bishop of Gloucester – Confirmation of Election (Accessed 27 May 2015)
6. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 7, 1992, pp. 105–109
7. Plant, David (2002). "Episcopalians". BCW Project. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
8. King, Peter (July 1968). "The Episcopate during the Civil Wars, 1642–1649". The English Historical Review. 83 (328). Oxford University Press: 523–537. doi:10.1093/ehr/lxxxiii.cccxxviii.523. JSTOR 564164.
9. "Historical successions: Gloucester". Crockford's Clerical Directory. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
10. 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 978-0-521-56350-5.
11. 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.
12. "Marsden, Samuel Edward". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
13. "Palmer, Edwin James". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
14. "Ordinations on Trinity Sunday". Church Times. No. 4767. 18 June 1954. p. 477. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 4 December 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
15. "O'Ferrall, Ronald Stanhope More". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
16. "Gazette: appointments". Church Times. No. 7447. 2 December 2005. p. 27. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 13 February 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.

External links

• Bishop of Gloucester's homepage