Bishop of Ebbsfleet

The Bishop of Ebbsfleet is a suffragan bishop who fulfils the role of a provincial episcopal visitor (also known as a "flying bishop") for the western half of the Province of Canterbury in the Church of England.^[1]

The position was created in 1994 and licensed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a "flying bishop" to provide episcopal oversight for parishes throughout the province which do not accept the sacramental ministry of bishops who have participated in the ordination of women. The position is named after Ebbsfleet in Thanet, Kent. In the southern province, the Bishops of Ebbsfleet and of Richborough each minister in thirteen of the 40 dioceses. The Bishop of Ebbsfleet serves the western thirteen dioceses (Bath and Wells, Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry, Derby, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Oxford, Salisbury, Truro and Worcester).^[2] Until the creation of the suffragan See of Richborough in 1995, the Bishop of Ebbsfleet served the entire area of the Province of Canterbury with the exceptions of the Dioceses of London, Rochester and Southwark which came under the oversight of the Bishop of Fulham.

Jonathan Goodall was announced as the fifth Bishop of Ebbsfleet on 2 August 2013.^[3] His episcopal consecration took place on 25 September 2013 at Westminster Abbey. He had been the chaplain and ecumenical secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

List of Bishops of Ebbsfleet

Bishops of Ebbsfleet
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
29 April 1994	31 October 1998	John Richards
December 1998	18 December 1999	Michael Houghton SSC	Died in office
30 November 2000	31 December 2010	Andrew Burnham SSC	Resigned to become a Roman Catholic^[4]
16 June 2011	13 February 2013	Jonathan Baker SSC	Translated to Fulham
25 September 2013	present	Jonathan Goodall SSC
Source(s): ^[1]

References

1 2 Crockford's Clerical Directory (100th ed.). London: Church House Publishing. 2007. p. 946. ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0.
↑ See of Ebbsflett
↑ Suffragan See of Ebbsfleet: nomination of Reverend Canon Jonathan Goodall approved. 2 August 2013.
↑ The Resignation of Bishop Andrew. 24 November 2010.

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Bishops suffragan in the Church of England

Active suffragan sees

Province of Canterbury	Aston Barking Basingstoke Bedford Bradwell Brixworth Buckingham Colchester Crediton Croydon Dorchester Dorking Dover Dudley Dunwich Ebbsfleet Edmonton Europe Fulham Grantham Grimsby Hertford Horsham Huntingdon Islington Kensington Kingston-upon-Thames Lewes Ludlow Lynn Maidstone Plymouth Ramsbury Reading Repton Richborough Sherborne Shrewsbury Southampton St Germans Stafford Stepney Swindon Taunton Tewkesbury Thetford Tonbridge Warwick Willesden Wolverhampton Woolwich

Province of York	Beverley Birkenhead Bolton Burnley Doncaster Hull Jarrow Lancaster Middleton Penrith Richmond Ripon Selby Sherwood Stockport Wakefield Warrington Whitby

Former suffragan sees

Abeyant	Barrow-in-Furness Berwick Bristol Coventry Derby Guildford Hulme Ipswich Leicester Marlborough Nottingham Penrydd Shaftesbury Sheffield Southwark Whalley

Translated	Knaresborough (to Ripon) Malmesbury (to Swindon) Pontefract (to Wakefield)

See also: Suffragan Bishops Act 1534; Assistant Bishop of Leicester; Assistant Bishop of Newcastle; Bishop for the Falkland Islands; Bishop to the Forces; spokesperson bishops; Bishop at Lambeth

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