Bishop of Leicester | |
|---|---|
| Bishopric | |
| anglican | |
| Incumbent: Martyn Snow | |
| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | Canterbury |
| Residence | Bishop's Lodge, Knighton |
| Information | |
| First holder | Cyril Bardsley |
| Established | 1927 |
| Diocese | Leicester |
| Cathedral | Leicester Cathedral |
The Bishop of Leicester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Leicester in the Province of Canterbury.[1]
Through reorganisation within the Church of England, the Diocese of Leicester was refounded in 1927, and St Martin's Church became Leicester Cathedral.[2][1] The present bishop's residence is Bishop's Lodge, Knighton,[3] south Leicester. Martyn Snow became Bishop of Leicester with the confirmation of his election on 22 February 2016.[4]
Bishops of Leicester
| Bishops of Leicester | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
| 1927 | 1940 | ) Cyril Bardsley | Translated from Peterborough |
| 1940 | 1953 | Guy Smith | Translated from Willesden |
| 1953 | 1979 | Ronald Williams | |
| 1979 | 1991 | Richard Rutt | Translated from St Germans. Converted to Roman Catholicism in 1995. |
| 1991 | 1999 | .jpg')) Tom Butler | Translated from Willesden; later moved to Southwark |
| 1999 | 11 July 2015 | .jpg')) Tim Stevens | Translated from Dunwich[5] |
| 1 September 2015 | 22 February 2016 | John Holbrook | Bishop of Brixworth, acting bishop[6] |
| 22 February 2016 | present | Martyn Snow | [4] Previously Bishop of Tewkesbury.[7] |
| Source(s):[1][2][8] | |||
Assistant bishops
- For those full-time Assistant Bishops of Leicester who preceded the Bishop suffragan of Loughborough, see Bishop of Loughborough.
Other assistant (or coadjutor) bishops of the diocese include:
- 1935 – 1949 (ret.): John Willis, former Bishop of Uganda[9]
- 1949 – 1955 (d.): Francis Hollis, Vicar of Stanford with Swinford, Leicestershire and Senior Canon of Leicester; former Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak[10]
- 1972 – 1997 (d.): John Mort, former Bishop of Northern Nigeria (1952–1969), Canon Treasurer of Leicester Cathedral (1970–1988)[11]
- 1966 – 1973 (ret.): Thomas Geoffrey Stuart Smith (surnamed Smith or Stuart-Smith; 28 February 1901 – 8 December 1981)[12] was an assistant bishop while he was Rector of Swithland. He had previously served as: Chaplain of Ridley Hall, Cambridge (1928–1930); Vice-Principal of the Cambridge Nicholson Institute and Mission, Kottayam (1930–1939); Archdeacon of Mavelikara (1939–1947); Bishop of North Kerala (1947–1954); Vicar of Burwell, Cambridgeshire (1954–1960); and Rector of Danbury (1960–1966) and an assistant bishop in Chelmsford (1961–1966).[13][14]
Cecil de Carteret, former Bishop of Jamaica, was appointed to serve as assistant-bishop from 1932, but he died in ill-health on 3 January, unable to take up the appointment.
Honorary assistant bishops — retired bishops taking on occasional duties voluntarily — have included:
- 1999–2011 (res.): Colin Scott, retired Bishop of Hulme
Sources
- Notes
- ^ a b c "Historical successions: Leicester". Crockford's Clerical Directory. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
- ^ a b Leicester Cathedral: History Archived 25 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 22 November 2008.
- ^ "Martyn James Snow". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^ a b Diocese of Leicester — Martyn confirmed for Leicester Archived 17 March 2016 at Archive.today & photo on Twitter (Accessed 26 February 2016)
- ^ Diocese of Leicester – Bishop Tim announces retirement Archived 19 November 2014 at Archive.today (Accessed 18 November 2014)
- ^ Diocese of Leicester — Interim Bishop of Leicester (Accessed 30 June 2015)
- ^ Diocese of Leicester — Welcome to the New Bishop of Leicester (Accessed 15 December 2015)
- ^ Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 252.
- ^ "Willis, John Jamieson". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ "Hollis, Francis Septimus". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ "Mort, John Ernest Llewelyn". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ "Smith, Thomas Geoffrey Stuart". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ "Assistant bishop of Chelmsford". Church Times (#5122). 14 April 1961. p. 1. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 23 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ "Obituaries". Church Times (#6201). 18 December 1981. p. 4. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 23 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- Bibliography
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.