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 | |||
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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).