Bishop of Dover
| Bishop of Dover | |
|---|---|
| Bishopric | |
| anglican | |
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Incumbent: Trevor Willmott | |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Diocese | Canterbury |
| First incumbent | Richard Yngworth |
| Formation | 1536 |
The Bishop of Dover is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Canterbury, England,[1] The title takes its name after the town of Dover in Kent. The Bishop of Dover holds the additional title of "Bishop in Canterbury" and is empowered to act almost as if he were the diocesan bishop of Canterbury, since the actual diocesan bishop (the Archbishop of Canterbury) is based at Lambeth Palace in London, and thus is frequently away from his diocese, fulfilling national and international duties. Among other things, this gives the Bishop of Dover an ex officio seat in the Church's General Synod. Until recently, there was another proper suffragan, the Bishop of Maidstone, who did not have the same extra powers.
The role of the Bishop of Dover in the Diocese of Canterbury is comparable to that of the Cardinal Vicar in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rome, who exercises most functions that the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, formally has in his own diocese. The arrangements by which the Bishop of Dover acts as if he were the diocesan bishop dates from 1980,[2] under provisions in Section 10 of the Dioceses Measure 1978. The 2001 report To Lead and to Serve recommended making these arrangement more permanent and styling the pseudo–diocesan bishop as "Bishop in Canterbury";[3] that style was already in use before the review.[4]
The current Bishop of Dover, since February 2010, is Trevor Willmott; his retirement has been announced for May 2019.[5]
List of Bishops of Dover
| Bishops of Dover | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
| 1536 | 1545 | Richard Yngworth | Consecrated on 9 December 1536; died in 1545. |
| 1545 | 1557 | Richard Thornden | Consecrated in 1545; died in 1557. |
| 1557 | 1569 | no appointment | |
| 1569 | 1597 | Richard Rogers | Consecrated on 15 May 1569; died 19 May 1597. |
| 1597 | 1870 | in abeyance | |
| 1870 | 1890 | Edward Parry | |
| 1890 | 1897 | Rodney Eden | Translated to Wakefield. |
| 1898 | 1916 | William Walsh | |
| 1916 | 1927 | Harold Bilbrough | Translated to Newcastle. |
| 1927 | 1934 | John Macmillan | Translated to Guildford. |
| 1935 | 1957 | Alfred Rose | |
| 1957 | 1964 | Lewis Meredith | |
| 1964 | 1980 | Anthony Tremlett | |
| 1980 | 1992 | Richard Third | Formerly Bishop of Maidstone; first pseudo-diocesan. |
| 1992 | 1999 | Richard Llewellin | Formerly Bishop of St Germans. |
| 1999 | 2009 | Stephen Venner | (b. 1944). Formerly Bishop of Middleton. |
| 2010 | present | Trevor Willmott | (b. 1951). Formerly Bishop of Basingstoke; retiring May 2019.[5] |
| Source(s):[1][6] | |||
References
- 1 2 Crockford's Clerical Directory (100th ed.). London: Church House Publishing. 2007. p. 946. ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0.
- ↑ The Times, 3 June 1980; pg. 4; Issue 60641; col B, Church change to ease work of archbishop
- ↑ To Lead and to Serve: The Report of the Review of the See of Canterbury, p. 5 (Accessed 16 November 2015)
- ↑ Church of England — Review of the See of Canterbury (Accessed 16 November 2015)
- 1 2 Diocese of Canterbury — Bishop of Dover announces retirement (Accessed 12 October 2018)
- ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 287. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
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