List of the Bishops of Bedford

The list of Bishops of Bedford represents the episcopal titleholders of the Church of England , the diocese of Saint Albans, in the Province of Canterbury . The title was named after the city of Bedford .

List of the Bishops of Bedford
From	To	Surname	Remarks
1537	1560	John Hodgkins
1560	1879	Abeyance
1879	1888	William Walsham How	then Bishop of Wakefield
1888	1898	Robert Billing
1898	1935	Abeyance
1935	1939	Lumsden Barkway	then Bishop of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane
1939	1942	Aylmer Skelton	then Bishop of Lincoln
1942	1948	Abeyance
1948	1953	Thomas Wood	previously Archdeacon of Saint Albans
1953	1957	Campbell MacInnes	then Bishop of Jerusalem
1957	1962	Basil Guy	then Bishop of Gloucester
1963	1968	John Albert Trillo	then Bishop of Hertford and Chelmsford
1968	1976	John Hare	previously Archdeacon of Bedford
1977	1981	Andrew Graham	then Bishop of Newcastle
1981	1993	David Farmbrough	previously Archdeacon of Saint Albans
1994	2002	John Richardson
2003	2012	Richard Inwood	thereafter Bishop of Southwell
2012	present	Richard Atkinson	previously Archdeacon of Leicester

literature

• Church House Publishing (Ed.): Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/09 (=  Crockford's Clerical Directory . No. 100 ). London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0 , pp. 1145 (English).
• Pryde, Greenway, Porter, and Roy: Handbook of British Chronology . (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks). No. 3 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5 , pp. 645 (English).