bishop of gloucester

The Bishop of Gloucester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester in the Province of Canterbury.

The diocese covers the County of Gloucestershire and part of the County of Worcestershire and has its see in the City of Gloucester where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity.

The office has been in existence since the foundation of the see in 1541 under King Henry VIII from part of the Diocese of Worcester. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Michael Francis Perham, MA, the 40th Lord Bishop of Gloucester, who signs Michael Gloucestr.

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Gloucester, England

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

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small>1541 to 1550	John Wakeman	Last abbot of Tewkesbury
small>1550 to 1553	John Hooper	Deprived
small>1554 to 1558	James Brookes	Died in office
small>1558 to 1562	vacant
small>1562 to 1579	Richard Cheney	Translated from Bristol
small>1579 to 1581	vacant
small>1581 to 1598	John Bullingham	Translated from Bristol
small>1598 to 1604	Godfrey Goldsborough	Prebendary of Worcester
small>1604 to 1607	Thomas Ravis	Dean of Christ College, Oxford; elected 4 March 1604; translated to London
small>1607 to 1610	Henry Barry	Dean of Chester; translated to Worcester
small>1610 to 14 June 1612	Giles Thomson	Dean of Windsor; consecrated 9 June 1611; died in office
small>1612 to 1624	Miles Smith	Canon-resident of Hereford
small>1625 to 1655	Geoffrey Goodman	Dean of Rochester; sequestrated 1640; died in communion with Rome, 1655
small>1655 to 1660	vacant
small>1660 to 1672	William Nicholson	Archdeacon of Brecknock
small>1672 to 1681	John Pritchet (John Pritchard)	Vicar of St Giles, Cripplegate
small>1681 to 1691	Robert Frampton	Dean of Gloucester; deprived
small>1691 to 26 August 1714	Edward Fowler	Prebendary of Gloucester; died in office
small>1715 to 1722	Richard Willis	Dean of Lincoln; translated to Salisbury
small>1722 to 1731	Joseph Wilcocks	Prebendary of Westminster; translated to Rochester
small>1731 to 1734	Elias Sydall	Translated to St David's
small>1734 to 1752	Martin Benson	Prebendary of Durham
small>1752 to 1759	James Johnson	Canon-resident of St Paul's
small>1759 to 1779	William Warburton	Dean of Bristol, preacher of Lincolns Inn
small>1779 to 1781	The Honourable James Yorke	Translated from David's\|St David's; translated to Ely
small>1781 to 1789	Samuel Halifax	Translated from St Asaph
small>1789 to 1802	Richard Beadon	Archdeacon of London; translated to Bath & Wells
small>21 April 1802 to 1815	George Isaac Huntingford	Warden of Winchester College
small>8 July 1815 to 1824	The Honourable Henry Ryder	Translated to Lichfield & Coventry
small>11 March 1824 to 1830	Christopher Bethell	Translated to Exeter
small>11 July 1830 to 1836	James Henry Monk	Becoming Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol
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small>1836 to 6 June 1856	James Henry Monk	Hitherto Bishop of Gloucester
small>9 July 1856 to 1861	Charles Baring	Rector of Limpsfield; translated to Durham
small>December 1861 to 1863	William Thomson	Prior of Queen's College, Oxford; translated to York
small>30 January 1863 to 1897	Charles John Ellicott, DD	Dean of Exeter; becoming Bishop of Gloucester
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small>1897 to 1905	Charles John Ellicott, DD	Hitherto Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol
small>1905 to 1924?	Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson, DD
small>1924 to 1954	...
small>1954 to 1962	Wilfred Marcus Askwith, KCMG, DD	Translated from Blackburn
small>1962 to 1975	Basil Tudor Guy, MA
small>1975 to 1992	John Yates, MA
small>1992 to 1993	Peter John Ball
small>December 1993 to 31 December 2003	David Edward Bentley, BA
small>2004 to present	Michael Francis Perham, MA

Bishop Of Gloucester

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Gloucester, England

See also