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The Bishop of Sherborne is an episcopal title which takes its name from the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, England. The see of Sherborne was established in around 705 by St Aldhelm, the Abbot of Malmesbury. This see was the mother diocese of the greater part of southwestern England in Saxon times, but after the Norman Conquest was incorporated into the new Diocese of Salisbury. The title Bishop of Sherborne is now used by the Church of England for a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Salisbury.
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The Bishop to Her Majesty's Prisons is an episcopal post in the Church of England relating to the church's chaplaincy to Her Majesty's Prison Service. The bishop holds this role alongside their diocesan or suffragan see and works to support the Chaplain-General of Prisons.
The House of Bishops is the upper house of the tricameral Church of England General Synod legislature. It consists of all 42 Diocesan Bishops of the Church of England's Provinces of Canterbury and York as well as nine elected suffragan bishops. This is not to be confused with the Lords Spiritual, the most senior bishops in the Church of England sitting in the House of Lords ex officio.
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- ↑ Archbishop of Canterbury – Bishop of Rochester to be next Bishop to Prisons (Accessed 18 November 2013)
- ↑ "Bishop of Gloucester takes on new national role for prisons".
- ↑ Church of England – Bishop of Carlisle appointed as Lead Bishop on Healthcare Issues (Accessed 7 March 2014)
- ↑ Towards Acknowledgement (Accessed 16 June 2015)
- ↑ Church of England – The Church Commissioners (Accessed 7 March 2014)
- ↑ "Bishop of Salisbury takes leading role in ministry of and among Deaf and disabled people". Church of England. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ↑ "Rt Rev Richard Atkinson | University of Bedfordshire". Archived from the original on 3 August 2020.
- ↑ Church of England Higher Education Bulletin – May 2013
- ↑ "Bishop of Coventry to lead Further and Higher Education work". Church of England. 3 December 2021.
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