Bishop of Table Bay

The bishop of Table Bay is a suffragan bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town. Since 2004^[1] the incumbent has been The Right Reverend Garth Counsell. Like the bishop of Dover the incumbent is in effect the diocesan bishop as his or her superior is primate of an ecclesiastical province.^[2]

According to the canons of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, the bishop of Table Bay has the rights and powers of a diocesan bishop, and is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Diocese of Cape Town.^[3]

List of bishops

Garth Counsell 2004 - present

Notes

↑ Cape Town Diocesan Newsletter
↑ "Church change to ease work of archbishop". The Times (60641). 3 June 1980. p. 4 col B.
↑ "Canon 5: Of the election and ministry of the Archbishop of Cape Town and of the Bishop of Table Bay". Anglican Church of Southern Africa. Retrieved 2015-11-07.

Bishops and Archbishops of Cape Town

Bishops	Robert Gray William West Jones (became archbishop)

Archbishops	William West Jones William Carter Francis Phelps Russell Darbyshire Geoffrey Clayton Joost de Blank Robert Selby Taylor Bill Burnett Philip Russell Desmond Tutu Njongonkulu Ndungane Thabo Makgoba

Suffragans	James Nash Sidney Lavis Roy Cowdry Walter Wade George Swartz Garth Counsell

Anglican Church of Southern Africa

Dioceses	Angola Cape Town (Metropolitan diocese) Christ the King False Bay Free State George Grahamstown Highveld Johannesburg Kimberley & Kuruman Lebombo Lesotho Matlosane Mbhashe Mpumalanga Mthatha Namibia Natal Niassa Port Elizabeth Pretoria Saldanha Bay St Helena St Mark the Evangelist Swaziland Ukhahlamba Umzimvubu Zululand

Related	College of the Transfiguration Order of Simon of Cyrene Calendar of saints

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