List of the bishops of Derby
The list of Bishops of Derby represents the episcopal titleholders of the Church of England , the Diocese of Derby, in the Province of Canterbury . This diocese emerged from the Diocese of Southwell in 1927 under the decree of King George V. The title was named after the town of Derby in the county of Derbyshire .
| Suffragan Bishops from Derby | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Surname | Remarks |
| 1889 | 1909 | Edward Were | then Bishop of Stafford |
| 1909 | 1927 | Charles Abraham | |
| Bishops of Derby | |||
| 1927 | 1936 | Edmund Pearce | |
| 1936 | 1959 | Alfred Rawlinson | Previously Archdeacon of Auckland |
| 1959 | 1969 | Geoffrey Allen | previously Bishop of Egypt |
| 1969 | 1988 | Cyril Bowles | previously Archdeacon of Swindon |
| 1988 | 1995 | Peter Dawes | previously Archdeacon of West Ham |
| 1995 | 2005 | Jonathan Bailey | previously Bishop of Dunwich |
| 2005 | present | Alastair Redfern | previously Bishop of Grantham |
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).