Bishop of Southampton
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The Bishop of Southampton is an episcopal
title used by a suffragan bishop
of the Church of England
Diocese of Winchester
, in the Province of Canterbury
, England
. The title takes its name after the city of Southampton
in Hampshire
. The current bishop is The Rt Revd Jonathan Frost
, who became bishop in 2010.
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Episcopal polity
Episcopal polity is a form of church governance that is hierarchical in structure with the chief authority over a local Christian church resting in a bishop...
title used by a suffragan bishop
Suffragan bishop
A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop. He or she may be assigned to an area which does not have a cathedral of its own.-Anglican Communion:...
of the Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
Diocese of Winchester
Diocese of Winchester
The Diocese of Winchester forms part of the Province of Canterbury of the Church of England.Founded in 676, it is one of the oldest and largest of the dioceses in England.The area of the diocese incorporates:...
, in the Province of Canterbury
Province of Canterbury
The Province of Canterbury, also called the Southern Province, is one of two ecclesiastical provinces making up the Church of England...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The title takes its name after the city of Southampton
Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...
in Hampshire
Hampshire
Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...
. The current bishop is The Rt Revd Jonathan Frost
Jonathan Frost
Jonathan Hugh Frost is the Bishop of Southampton in the Church of England Diocese of Winchester. Frost was previously co-ordinating chaplain at the University of Surrey and a canon residentiary at Guildford Cathedral....
, who became bishop in 2010.
List of the Bishops of Southampton
| No. | Incumbent | From | Until | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | William Awdry William Awdry William Awdry was the inaugural Bishop of Southampton and Osaka who subsequently served South Tokyo.He was the fourth son of Sir John Wither Awdry and his second wife Frances Ellen Carr, second daughter of Thomas Carr Awdry was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford... |
1895 | 1896 | |
| 2 | George Fisher | 1896 | 1899 | Translated Translation (ecclesiastical) Translation is the technical term when a Bishop is transferred from one diocese to another.This can be* From Suffragan Bishop status to Diocesan Bishop*From Coadjutor bishop to Diocesan Bishop*From one country's Episcopate to another... to Ipswich Bishop of Ipswich The Bishop of Ipswich was an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Norwich, in the Province of Canterbury, England.... |
| 3 | The Hon Arthur Lyttelton | 1898 | 1903 | |
| 4 | James Macarthur James Macarthur James Macarthur was an Anglican Bishop in the late 19th and early 20th century.Born on 7 June 1848, Macarthur was educated at the University of Glasgow and studied for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon. From 1878 he was Curate at St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol before Incumbencies in Lamplugh... |
1903 | 1921 | Formerly Bishop of Bombay Bishop of Bombay The Bishop of Bombay was the Ordinary of the Anglican Church in Bombay from its inception in 1837 until the foundation of the Church in India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon in 1927; and since then head of one of its most prominent Dioceses.-External links:*... |
| 5 | Cecil Boutflower | 1921 | 1933 | Formerly Bishop of Dorking Bishop of Dorking The Bishop of Dorking is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Guildford, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the county town of Guildford in Surrey. Until 1927, the suffragan bishops had been appointed for the Diocese... and South Tokyo Bishop of South Tokyo The Bishop of South Tokyo was the title of a bishop of the Anglican Church in Japan.Edward Bickersteth was the Bishop of South Tokyo from 1886 until his premature death. He was born at Banningham, Norfolk, into a noted ecclesiastical family .-External links:****... |
| 6 | Arthur Karney | 1933 | 1943 | Formerly Bishop of Johannesberg Anglican Diocese of Johannesburg The Anglican Diocese of Johannesburg is part of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. It was formed in 1922 from the southern part of the Diocese of Pretoria, and at that time included the whole of the southern Transvaal... |
| 7 | Edmund Morgan | 1943 | 1951 | Translated to Truro Bishop of Truro The Bishop of Truro is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Truro in the Province of Canterbury.The present diocese covers the county of Cornwall and it is one of the most recently created dioceses of the Church of England... |
| 8 | Kenneth Lamplugh | 1951 | 1972 | |
| 9 | John Cavell | 1972 | 1984 | |
| 10 | David Cartwright | 1984 | 1989 | |
| 11 | John Perry John Perry (bishop) The Rt Rev John Freeman Perry was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the last decades of the 20th Century and the very start of the 21st. He was born on 15 June 1935 and educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Nottingham... |
1989 | 1996 | Translated to Chelmsford Bishop of Chelmsford The Bishop of Chelmsford is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chelmsford in the Province of Canterbury.The current bishop is the Right Reverend Stephen Cottrell, the 10th Bishop of Chelmsford, who signs Stephen Chelmsford... |
| 12 | Jonathan Gledhill Jonathan Gledhill Jonathan Michael Gledhill is the 98th Bishop of Lichfield. He was enthroned in Lichfield Cathedral on 15 November 2003.... |
1996 | 2003 | Translated to Lichfield Bishop of Lichfield The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers 4,516 km² of the counties of Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and West Midlands. The bishop's seat is located in the Cathedral Church of the Blessed... |
| 13 | Paul Butler | 2004 | 2009 | Translated to Southwell and Nottingham Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham The Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham is the diocesan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham in the Province of York.The diocese covers including the whole of Nottinghamshire and a small area of South Yorkshire... |
| 14 | Jonathan Frost Jonathan Frost Jonathan Hugh Frost is the Bishop of Southampton in the Church of England Diocese of Winchester. Frost was previously co-ordinating chaplain at the University of Surrey and a canon residentiary at Guildford Cathedral.... |
2010 | present | formerly Co-ordinating Chaplain to the University of Surrey |
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