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 Bishop's residence is Bishopscourt, Gloucester.

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 Perham MA, the 40th Lord Bishop of Gloucester, who signs Michael Gloucestr.

List of bishops

Chronological list of the Bishops of the Diocese of Gloucester, England

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
Diocese of Gloucester
1541 to 1550	John Wakeman	Last abbot of Tewkesbury
1550 to 1553	John Hooper	Deprived
1554 to 1558	James Brooks	Died in office
1558 to 1562	vacant
1562 to 1579	Richard Cheyney	Translated from Bristol
1579 to 1581	vacant
1581 to 1598	John Bullingham	Translated from Bristol
1598 to 1604	Godfrey Goldsborough	Prebendary of Worcester
1604 to 1607	Thomas Ravis	Dean of Christ College, Oxford; elected 4 March 1604; translated to London
1607 to 1610	Henry Parry	Dean of Chester; translated to Worcester
1610 to 14 June 1612	Giles Thomson	Dean of Windsor; consecrated 9 June 1611; died in office
1612 to 1624	Miles Smith	Canon-resident of Hereford
1625 to 1655	Godfrey Goodman	Dean of Rochester; sequestrated 1640; died in communion with Rome, 1655
1655 to 1660	vacant
1660 to 1672	William Nicholson	Archdeacon of Brecknock
1672 to 1681	John Pritchett	Vicar of St Giles, Cripplegate
1681 to 1691	Robert Frampton	Dean of Gloucester; deprived
1691 to 26 August 1714	Edward Fowler	Prebendary of Gloucester; died in office
1715 to 1722	Richard Willis	Dean of Lincoln; translated to Salisbury
1722 to 1731	Joseph Wilcocks	Prebendary of Westminster; translated to Rochester
1731 to 1733	Elias Sydall	Translated from St David's
1734 to 1752	Martin Benson	Prebendary of Durham
1752 to 1759	James Johnson	Canon-resident of St Paul's
1759 to 1779	William Warburton	Dean of Bristol, preacher of Lincoln's Inn
1779 to 1781	The Hon. James Yorke	Translated from St David's; translated to Ely
1781 to 1789	Samuel Hallifax	Translated to St Asaph
1789 to 1802	Richard Beadon	Archdeacon of London; translated to Bath & Wells
21 April 1802 to 1815	George Huntingford	Warden of Winchester College
8 July 1815 to 1824	The Hon. Henry Ryder	Translated to Lichfield & Coventry
11 March 1824 to 1830	Christopher Bethell	Translated to Exeter
11 July 1830 to 1836	James Monk	Translated to Gloucester and Bristol
Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol
1836 to 6 June 1856	James Monk	Translated from Gloucester; died in office.
9 July 1856 to 1861	Charles Baring	Translated to Durham
December 1861 to 1863	William Thomson	Previously Dean of Queen's College, Oxford; translated to York.
30 January 1863 to 1897	Charles Ellicott DD	Previously Dean of Exeter; translated to Gloucester.
Diocese of Gloucester
1897 to 1905	Charles Ellicott DD	Hitherto Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol
1905 to 1924?	Edgar Gibson DD
1924 to 1945	Arthur Headlam
1946 to 1953	Clifford Woodward
1954 to 1962	Wilfred Askwith KCMG DD	Translated from Blackburn
1962 to 1975	Basil Guy MA
1975 to 1992	John Yates MA
1992 to 1993	Peter Ball MA CGA
December 1993 to 31 December 2003	David Bentley BA
2004 to present	Michael Perham MA

References

• Haydn's Book of Dignities (1894) Joseph Haydn/Horace Ockerby, reprinted 1969
• Whitaker's Almanack 1883 to 2004, Joseph Whitaker and Sons Ltd/A&C Black, London

External links

• Bishop of Gloucester's homepage