Bishop of Swindon

The Bishop of Swindon is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Bristol, in the Province of Canterbury, England.^[1] The title takes its name after the town of Swindon in Wiltshire. The title of Bishop of Malmesbury was the precursor title, named after Malmesbury in Wiltshire.

List of bishops of Swindon

Bishops of Malmesbury
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1927	1946	Ronald Ramsay
1946	1956	Ivor Watkins	Translated to Guildford
1956	1962	Edward Roberts	Translated to Kensington
1962	1973	Jim Bishop
1973	1983	Freddy Temple
1983	1994	Peter Firth
Bishops of Swindon
1994	2005	Michael Doe
2005	present	Lee Rayfield
Source(s): ^[1]

References

1 2 Crockford's Clerical Directory (100th ed.). London: Church House Publishing. 2007. p. 947-949. ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0.

External links

Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings

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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