Bishop of Edmonton (London)

Last updated

The Bishop of Edmonton is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury, England. [1] The title takes its name after Edmonton, an area in the North of the London Borough of Enfield; the See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 29 May 1970. [2]

Contents

The See was erected in order to take oversight of a new fourth suffragan area (initially the deaneries of North and South Camden, Central and West Barnet, East and West Haringey, and Enfield) [3] created by the diocese's 1970 experimental area scheme; [4] bishops suffragan of Edmonton have been area bishops since the London area scheme was founded in 1979. [5] The See has been vacant since Rob Wickham's resignation on 9 July 2023. [6]

On 20 December 2023 it was announced by the Diocese of London that the role will be filled in 2024 by Anderson Jeremiah, who is currently Associate Dean at Lancaster University and a priest in the Diocese of Blackburn. [7]

The episcopal title of "Bishop of Edmonton" is one of three that are duplicated in the Anglican Communion. The other Bishop of Edmonton is a diocesan bishop in Canada.[ citation needed ]

List of bishops

Bishops of Edmonton
FromUntilIncumbentNotes
19701975 Alan Rogers (1907-2003)
19751984 Bill Westwood (1925-1999). First area bishop from 1979; translated to Peterborough
19851998 Brian Masters (1932-1998). Died in office. Formerly Bishop of Fulham
March 1999 [8] 31 December 2014 [9] Peter Wheatley (b. 1947). Formerly Archdeacon of Hampstead; retired at the end of 2014
20142015 Pete Broadbent, area Bishop of Willesden acting area bishop
23 September 20159 July 2023 Rob Wickham [10] Resigned to become CEO of Church Urban Fund [6]
"spring 2024"bishop-designate Anderson Jeremiah [7]
Source(s): [1]

Related Research Articles

The Bishop of Ripon is an episcopal title which takes its name after the city of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England. The bishop is one of the area bishops of the Diocese of Leeds in the Province of York. The area bishop of Ripon has oversight of the archdeaconry of Richmond and Craven, which consists of the deaneries of Bowland, Ewecross, Harrogate, Richmond, Ripon, Skipton, and Wensley.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diocese of London</span> Diocese of the Church of England

The Diocese of London forms part of the Church of England's Province of Canterbury in England.

The Bishop of Bedford is an episcopal title used by a Church of England suffragan bishop who, under the direction of the Diocesan Bishop of St Albans, oversees 150 parishes in Luton and Bedfordshire.

The Bishop of Kensington is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The Bishop of Kensington is responsible for a part of Greater London, including Kensington, Hounslow, Hampton, Hammersmith and Fulham, plus the Spelthorne district in Surrey.

The Bishop of Stepney is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Stepney, an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The post is held by Joanne Grenfell whose consecration as bishop, and start of her tenure as Bishop of Stepney, was on 3 July 2019 at St Paul's Cathedral; the principal consecrator was Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Bishop of Willesden is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Willesden, an area of the London Borough of Brent; the See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 8 August 1911.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anglican Bishop of Southwark</span> Diocesan bishop in the Church of England

The Bishop of Southwark is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Southwark in the Province of Canterbury.

The Bishop of Tonbridge is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Tonbridge, a market town in Kent; the see was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 11 September 1958. The bishop assists the diocesan Bishop of Rochester as well as having a particular ministry in the Archdeaconry of Tonbridge.

The Bishop of Southampton is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Winchester, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the city of Southampton in Hampshire. The current bishop is Debbie Sellin.

The Bishop of Dunwich is an episcopal title which was first used by an Anglo-Saxons bishop between the 7th and 9th centuries and is currently used by the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The title takes its name after Dunwich in the English county of Suffolk, which has now largely been lost to the sea.

The Bishop of Brixworth is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Peterborough, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the village of Brixworth in Northamptonshire and has shared responsibility over the whole diocese. Following a proposal initiated by Bill Westwood, Bishop of Peterborough in 1985, and with the agreement of the General Synod of the Church of England in July 1987, the See was erected by Queen-in-Council on 26 July 1988.

The Bishop of Dorking is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Guildford, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name from the town of Dorking in Surrey. However, the bishop of Dorking lives in Guildford.

Cecil Henry Boutflower was an Anglican bishop who served both at home and abroad.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anglican Bishop of Nottingham</span>

The Anglican Bishop of Nottingham was an episcopal title used by a Church of England suffragan bishop. The title took its name after the county town of Nottingham and was first created under the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534. Until 1837, Nottingham had been part of the Diocese of York, when it then became part of the Diocese of Lincoln. With the creation of the Diocese of Southwell in 1884, Nottingham became part of that diocese, but the then- bishop remained suffragan to Lincoln. Since 2005, Nottingham gives its name to the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alan Rogers (bishop)</span>

Alan Francis Bright Rogers (1907–2003) was an Anglican bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning over half a century.

Edward Holland is a retired Anglican bishop, who was the Suffragan Bishop in Europe and then the area Bishop of Colchester. He is now an honorary assistant bishop in both the Diocese of London and the Diocese in Europe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alan Winton</span>

Alan Peter Winton is a retired bishop who served as Bishop of Thetford in the Church of England Diocese of Norwich.

Andrew John Proud is a retired British Anglican bishop. He was area Bishop of Reading in the Church of England and previously the area bishop for the Horn of Africa in the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East.

The Bishop of Leicester was a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Peterborough in the Province of Canterbury.

Emma Gwynneth Ineson is a British Anglican bishop and academic, specialising in practical theology. Since 2023, she has served as Bishop of Kensington, the area bishop for West London. From 2014 to 2019, she was Principal of Trinity College, Bristol, an evangelical Anglican theological college; from 2019 to 2021, she was Bishop of Penrith, the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Carlisle; and from 2021 to 2023, she served as "Bishop to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York", i.e. assistant bishop on the staffs of both archbishops.

References

  1. 1 2 Crockford's Clerical Directory (100th ed.). London: Church House Publishing. 2007. p. 946. ISBN   978-0-7151-1030-0.
  2. ↑ "No. 45124". The London Gazette . 11 June 1970. p. 6515.
  3. ↑ "London's new suffragan see" . Church Times . No. 5599. 5 June 1970. p. 2. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 4 January 2021– via UK Press Online archives.
  4. ↑ "Virtual autonomy for London's 'area bishops'?" . Church Times . No. 5584. 20 February 1970. p. 1. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 29 September 2020– via UK Press Online archives.
    nb: the description of the "new suffragan's" area was either misreported in February 1970, or had changed by June.
  5. ↑ "4: The Dioceses Commission, 1978–2002" (PDF). Church of England. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Classified advertisements" . Church Times . No. 8362. 23 June 2023. p. 35. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 6 July 2023– via UK Press Online archives.
  7. 1 2 "New Bishop for North London and for Racial Justice". Diocese of London. 20 December 2023. Archived from the original on 20 December 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  8. ↑ Bishop of Edmonton Archived December 18, 2007, at the Wayback Machine ; retrieved on 16 June 2008.
  9. ↑ Thinking Anglicans – Bishop of Edmonton to retire (Accessed 19 July 2014)
  10. ↑ Diocese of London – Two new bishops and new archdeacon for London announced (Accessed 9 July 2015)


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.