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unusual facts about Assistant Bishop



Colin Docker

A keen photographer, he retired to Bovey Tracey in 1991, where he continues to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop within the Diocese of Exeter.

David Farrer

In 2008 Farrer was appointed vicar of the combined parishes of St Nicholas' Church, Arundel and St Leonard's Church, South Stoke, West Sussex and as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chichester in England.

Hamilton Baynes

After returning to England from Natal, Baynes was Vicar of St Mary's Church, Nottingham (also an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Southwell and an honorary canon of Southwell Minster from 1905) until 1913; then Provost of Birmingham Cathedral (and an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Birmingham) until his retirement in 1937.

James Leftwich

James Randolph (Jim) Leftwich was the national Aboriginal bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia, licensed as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of North Queensland.

John Flack

Flack is now priest in charge of Nassington, Apethorpe, Woodnewton and Yarwell and additionally an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Peterborough.

Philip Wheeldon

In retirement he served as an Assistant Bishop, firstly in the Diocese of Worcester and latterly at Wakefield.

Suffragan bishop

The dioceses of Leicester and Newcastle do not have suffragan bishops, but each has one stipendiary assistant bishop with very little difference from a suffragan bishop, except that they do not have a see.


see also

Church of St. John the Evangelist, Hucknall

It was dedicated on 6 March 1877 by Bishop Tozer, an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Lincoln.

Lenox School for Boys

Rev. William Benjamin Spofford, Jr., (1938), Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon (1969-1979), Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington (1979-1984, 1990), b.

Nigel Cornwall

He returned to England where he served as Commissary to the Bishop of Kuching, and as Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Winchester, and Canon Residentiary of Winchester Cathedral from 1963-73.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011, Vatican Information Service (VIS) and Catholic News Service (CNS), announced that Pope Benedict XVI had named the 53-year-old Bishop Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, until then an Auxiliary Bishop (assistant bishop) of Quebec (since 2009), as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec and Primate of Canada.

Santosh Marray

In September, 2012, Bishop Marray accepted the call to the position of Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, under the Right Reverend John McKee Sloan.

Stephen H. Jecko

In 2004, he "retired" as Bishop of Florida and moved to Plano, Texas where he accepted an offer to be Assistant Bishop at the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas.

Trevor Mwamba

On 13 November 2013 he was made assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chelmsford.