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unusual facts about suffragan bishop


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.


Campbell West-Watson

Campbell West-Watson, CMG, was successively an Anglican suffragan bishop, diocesan bishop and archbishop over a 40 year period during the first half of the 20th century.

Kenneth Lamplugh

From 1942 he was Rural Dean of Lyndhurst and then (his final appointment before elevation to the Episcopate) Archdeacon of Lincoln.


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Conrad Gröber

On the other hand, he is still reproached to this day on the ground that he had not sufficiently supported the suffragan bishop Johannes Baptista Sproll who was driven out of his diocese of Rottenburg as early as 1938.

Diocese in Europe

The current suffragan bishop is the Right Reverend David Hamid, who was consecrated bishop on 17 October 2002.

Morris Arnold

Morris F. Arnold (died 1992), American Episcopal suffragan bishop in Massachusetts

Robert Terwilliger

Robert E. Terwilliger (1917–1991), suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas

William P. Remington

He was appointed as missionary bishop of Eastern Oregon in 1922, and later elected as suffragan bishop of Pennsylvania in 1945.