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The '''Diocese of Ysabel''' is one of the nine current [[diocese]]s of the [[Anglican Church of Melanesia]].

It is one of the four original founding dioceses of the Church, erected in 1975<ref>[http://acom.org.sb/dioceses-bishops/diocese-of-malaita Anglican Church of Melanesia — Diocese of Malaita] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128191421/http://acom.org.sb/dioceses-bishops/diocese-of-malaita |date=2020-11-28 }} (Accessed 4 September 2016)</ref> and inaugurated on 1 March 1975 at Jejevo Primary School. The diocese is now divided into four regions and 28 districts or parishes and is based in Jejevo, [[Buala]], a town in the [[Solomon Islands]] located on [[Santa Isabel Island]].

==List of bishops==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;" | Bishops of Ysabel
|-
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB;"| From
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB;" | Until
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB;" | Incumbent
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB;" | Notes

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1975
| style="text-align: center;" | 1980
| '''[[Dudley Tuti]]'''
| First bishop; previously assistant bishop in the [[Diocese of Melanesia]] since 1963; retired in 1980 and knighted.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1981
| style="text-align: center;" | 1994
| '''[[Ellison Pogo]]'''
| Second bishop; consecrated and installed on 1 November 1981;<ref>[http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/COM_archives.pdf List of small publications in the Archives of the Anglican Church of Melanesia (in the National Archives of Solomon Islands)] pp. 9–10. (Accessed 25 August 2016)</ref> became [[Archbishop of Melanesia]] in 1994 and knighted.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1995
| style="text-align: center;" | 1999
| '''[[Walter Siba]]'''
| Third bishop.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 2000
| style="text-align: center;" | 2003
| '''[[Zephaniah Legumana]]'''
| Fourth bishop;  consecrated and installed on 28 January 2000.<ref>Small publications, p. 24. (Accessed 30 August 2016)</ref>

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 2004
| style="text-align: center;" | 2015
| '''[[Richard Naramana]]'''
| Fifth bishop; consecrated and installed on 18 April 2004;<ref>Small publications, p. 29. (Accessed 30 August 2016)</ref> retired September 2015.<ref name="sixth">[http://acom.org.sb/provincial-news/item/798-acom-elects-new-bishop-for-ysabel Anglican Church of Melanesia — ACoM elects new Bishop for Ysabel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916061903/http://acom.org.sb/provincial-news/item/798-acom-elects-new-bishop-for-ysabel |date=2016-09-16 }} (Accessed 4 September 2016)</ref>

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 2015
| style="text-align: center;" | ''present''
| '''[[Ellison Quity]]'''
| Sixth bishop; elected 10 November 2015.<ref name="sixth" />
|}

==References==
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==Sources==
*[http://acom.org.sb/dioceses-bishops/diocese-of-ysabel Anglican Church of Melanesia — Diocese of Ysabel]
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