Bishop of Tewkesbury

The Bishop of Tewkesbury is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester, in the Province of Canterbury, England.^[1] The title takes its name after the town of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.

List of bishops

Bishops of Tewkesbury
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1938	1955	Austin Hodson	(1879–1961)
1955	1960	Edward Henderson	(1910–1986). Translated to Bath and Wells
1960	1973	Forbes Horan	(1905–1996)
1973	1985	Robert Deakin	(1917–1985). Died in office
1986	1995	Jeremy Walsh	(b. 1929)
1996	2013	John Went	(b. 1944) Formerly Archdeacon of Surrey
2013	2016	Martyn Snow	(b. 1968) Formerly Archdeacon of Sheffield and Rotherham; translated to Leicester
Source(s):^[1]

References

1 2 Crockford's Clerical Directory (100th ed.). London: Church House Publishing. 2007. p. 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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