Bishop of Kingston

For the Roman Catholic archbishops (and their bishop predecessors), see Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston in Canada and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica. There have also been a bishops suffragan of Kingston, Jamaica and of Kingston, Ontario in the Anglican church.

The Bishop of Kingston (technically of Kingston-upon-Thames or, originally, of Kingston-on-Thames)^[1] is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Southwark, in the Province of Canterbury, England.^[2] The title takes its name after Kingston upon Thames, a settlement in south-west London. The bishops suffragan of Kingston have been area bishops since the Southwark area scheme was founded in 1991.^[3]

List of bishops

Bishops of Kingston
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1905	1915	Cecil Hook
1915	1922	Samuel Taylor
1922	1927	Percy Herbert	Translated to Blackburn
1927	1952	Frederick Hawkes
1952	1970	William Gilpin
1970	1978	Hugh Montefiore	Translated to Birmingham
1978	1984	Keith Sutton	Translated to Lichfield
1984	1992	Peter Selby	First area bishop from 1991; translated to Worcester
1992	1997	Martin Wharton	Translated to Newcastle
1997	2001	Peter Price	Translated to Bath and Wells
2002	present	Richard Cheetham
Source(s): ^[2]

References

↑ The London Gazette: no. 27801. p. 4030. 6 June 1905. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
1 2 Crockford's Clerical Directory (100th ed.). London: Church House Publishing. 2007. p. 947. ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0.
↑ "4: The Dioceses Commission, 1978–2002" (PDF). Church of England. Retrieved 23 April 2013.

External links

Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings

Bishops suffragan in the Church of England

Active suffragan sees

Province of Canterbury	Aston Barking Basingstoke Bedford Bradwell Brixworth Buckingham Colchester Crediton Croydon Dorchester Dorking Dover Dudley Dunwich Ebbsfleet Edmonton Europe Fulham Grantham Grimsby Hertford Horsham Huntingdon Islington Kensington Kingston-upon-Thames Lewes Ludlow Lynn Maidstone Plymouth Ramsbury Reading Repton Richborough Sherborne Shrewsbury Southampton St Germans Stafford Stepney Swindon Taunton Tewkesbury Thetford Tonbridge Warwick Willesden Wolverhampton Woolwich

Province of York	Berwick Beverley Birkenhead Bolton Burnley Doncaster Hull Jarrow Lancaster Middleton Penrith Richmond Ripon Selby Sherwood Stockport Wakefield Warrington Whitby

Former suffragan sees

Abeyant	Alnwick Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Bishopwearmouth Boston Bristol Chelsea Cirencester Coventry Derby Guildford Halifax Hexham Hulme Ipswich Kendal Leicester Leominster Marlborough Northampton Nottingham Oswestry Penrydd Rochdale Shaftesbury Sheffield Southwark Whalley Wigan

Translated	Knaresborough (to Ripon) Malmesbury (to Swindon) Pontefract (to Wakefield)

See also: Suffragan Bishops Act 1534; Assistant Bishop of Leicester; Assistant Bishop of Newcastle; Bishop for the Falkland Islands; Bishop to the Forces; spokesperson bishops; Bishop at Lambeth

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