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|align="center"| 2005 ||align="center"| present || '''[[Lee Rayfield]]''' || Also Acting Bishop of Bristol, 2017–18.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bristol.anglican.org/senior-clergy/|title=Senior clergy|website=Diocese of Bristol|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109191717/https://www.bristol.anglican.org/senior-clergy/|archive-date=9 November 2017}}</ref> Retiring 30 April 2023. |
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|align="center" colspan="4"| Source(s):<ref name=crockfords949>{{cite book |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory |edition=100th |location=London |publisher=Church House Publishing |year=2007 |pages=947–949 |isbn=978-0-7151-1030-0}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 07:55, 21 April 2023
The Bishop of Swindon is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Bristol, in the Province of Canterbury, England.[1] The title takes its name after the town of Swindon in Wiltshire. The title of Bishop of Malmesbury was the precursor title, named after Malmesbury in Wiltshire; the See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 25 July 1927.[2]
List of bishops of Swindon
| Bishops of Malmesbury | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
| 1927 | 1946 | Ronald Ramsay | |
| 1946 | 1956 | Ivor Watkins | Translated to Guildford |
| 1956 | 1962 | Edward Roberts | Translated to Kensington |
| 1962 | 1973 | Jim Bishop | |
| 1973 | 1983 | Freddy Temple | |
| 1983 | 1994 | Peter Firth | |
| Bishops of Swindon | |||
| 1994 | 2004 | Michael Doe | |
| 2005 | present | Lee Rayfield | Also Acting Bishop of Bristol, 2017–18.[3] Retiring 30 April 2023. |
| Source(s):[1] | |||
References
- ^ a b Crockford's Clerical Directory (100th ed.). London: Church House Publishing. 2007. pp. 947–949. ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0.
- ^ "No. 33299". The London Gazette. 2 August 1927. p. 4979.
- ^ "Senior clergy". Diocese of Bristol. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017.
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