Bishop of Coventry

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The Bishop's House, Coventry

The Bishop of Coventry is the Anglican Spiritual Head of the Diocese of Coventry . In the Middle Ages, the Bishop of Coventry was at times the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry .

The current diocese spans much of Warwickshire . The seat of the bishop is in Coventry in Coventry Cathedral of the Cathedral Church of Saint Michael . The Bishop's official residence is The Bishop's House in Coventry.

history

From 1102 to 1238, the former Benedictine Abbey and Cathedral of St Mary in Coventry was the seat of the early Bishops of Coventry, also known as the Bishop of Chester or Bishop of Lichfield. Until the dissolution of the monasteries , it was one of the seats of the Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield. The cathedral was destroyed in 1538 and the bishopric was thereafter alone in Lichfield . In 1837 Coventry was assigned to the Diocese of Worcester .

Suffragan bishops

In the late 19th century there were two suffragan bishops from Coventry, both assigned to John Perowne as Bishop of Worcester.

Suffragan Bishops of Coventry
From To Surname Remarks
1891 1894 Henry Bowlby
1894 1903 Edmund Knox Later Bishop of Manchester.
1903 1918 No suffragan bishop called
In 1918 the suffragan bishops ended with the creation of the modern diocese.
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Bishops of the modern diocese

The Diocese of Coventry was revived under King George V in 1918 when the parish church of Saint Michael was elevated to the status of cathedral. The cathedral was badly damaged by fire bombs from the German Air Force on the night of November 14, 1940 and is now a ruin memorial right next to the new cathedral, which was consecrated on May 25, 1962.

Christopher Cocksworth is the current Bishop of Coventry. He was ordained bishop on July 3, 2008 and inducted into office in Coventry on November 1, 2008. Previously, he was director of Ridley Hall , Cambridge.

Bishops of Coventry
From To Surname Remarks
1918 1922 Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs Previously Bishop of Worcester.
1922 1931 Charles Carre Later Bishop of Hereford.
1931 1943 Mervyn Haigh
1943 1952 Neville Gorton
1952 1976 Cuthbert Bardsley Previously Bishop of Croydon.
1976 1985 John Gibbs Previously Bishop of Bradwell.
1985 1998 Simon Barrington-Ward
1998 2008 Colin Bennetts Previously Bishop of Buckingham.
2008 present Christopher Cocksworth
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmund B. Fryde et al. (Ed.): Handbook of British Chronology . Cambridge 2003, p. 253-255 .
  2. ↑ a b Crockford’s Clerical Directory . London 2007, p. 946 .
  3. ^ Welcome to the new Bishop of Coventry . In: Coventry Telegraph , November 3, 2008. Retrieved November 18, 2008. 
  4. ↑ Edmund B. Fryde et al. (Ed.): Handbook of British Chronology . Cambridge 2003, p. 241 . Historical successions: Coventry . In: Crockford's Clerical Directory . Retrieved January 6, 2012.

literature

  • Crockford's Clerical Directory. A Directory of the Clergy of the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Church of Ireland . 100th edition. Church House Publishing, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0 .
  • Edmund B. Fryde et al. (Ed.): Handbook of British Chronology . Reprint of the 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 0-521-56350-X .

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