List of the bishops of Manchester
The List of Bishops of Manchester represents the episcopal titleholders of the Church of England , the Diocese of Manchester, in the Province of York . The Diocese of Manchester was founded in 1847. Due to the growth of the population in Manchester, the bishop asked in 1924 that the Bishop of Hulme support the diocese. Two new divisions were appointed from Manchester, Middleton and Bolton.
| List of the bishops of Manchester | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Surname | Remarks |
| 1848 | 1869 | James Prince Lee | |
| 1870 | 1885 | James Fraser | |
| 1886 | 1903 | James Moorhouse | previously Bishop of Melbourne |
| 1903 | 1921 | Edmund Knox | previously Bishop of Coventry |
| 1921 | 1929 | William Temple | then Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1929 | 1947 | Guy Warman | previously Bishop of Truro and Bishop of Chelmsford |
| 1947 | 1970 | William Greer | |
| 1970 | 1978 | Patrick Campbell Rodger | then Bishop of Oxford |
| 1979 | 1993 | Stanley Booth-Clibborn | |
| 1993 | 2002 | Christopher Mayfield | previously Bishop of Wolverhampton |
| 2002 | 2013 | Nigel McCulloch | previously Bishop of Taunton and Bishop of Wakefield |
| 2013 | present | David Walker | previously Bishop of Dudley |
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). Ed .: Cambridge University Press. No. 3 .. Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-56350-X , pp. 645 (English).