Bishop of Buckingham

The Bishop of Buckingham is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford, in the Province of Canterbury, England.^[1] The title takes its name from the historic county town of Buckingham. The bishops suffragan of Buckingham have been area bishops since the Oxford area scheme was founded in 1984.^[2]

List of bishops

Bishops of Buckingham
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1914	1921	Edward Shaw
1921	1944	Philip Eliot
1944	1960	Robert Hay
1960	1964	Gordon Savage	Translated to Southwell
1964	1974	Christopher Pepys
1974	1994	Simon Burrows	First area bishop from 1984.
1994	1998	Colin Bennetts	Translated to Coventry
1998	2003	Mike Hill	Translated to Bristol
2003	present	Alan Wilson
Source(s): ^[1]

References

1 2 Crockford's Clerical Directory (100th ed.). London: Church House Publishing. 2007. p. 946. ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0.
↑ "4: The Dioceses Commission, 1978–2002" (PDF). Church of England. Retrieved 23 April 2013.

External links

Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings

Bishops suffragan in the Church of England

Active suffragan sees

Province of Canterbury	Aston Barking Basingstoke Bedford Bradwell Brixworth Buckingham Colchester Crediton Croydon Dorchester Dorking Dover Dudley Dunwich Ebbsfleet Edmonton Europe Fulham Grantham Grimsby Hertford Horsham Huntingdon Islington Kensington Kingston-upon-Thames Lewes Ludlow Lynn Maidstone Plymouth Ramsbury Reading Repton Richborough Sherborne Shrewsbury Southampton St Germans Stafford Stepney Swindon Taunton Tewkesbury Thetford Tonbridge Warwick Willesden Wolverhampton Woolwich

Province of York	Berwick Beverley Birkenhead Bolton Burnley Doncaster Hull Jarrow Lancaster Middleton Penrith Richmond Ripon Selby Sherwood Stockport Wakefield Warrington Whitby

Former suffragan sees

Abeyant	Alnwick Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Bishopwearmouth Boston Bristol Chelsea Cirencester Coventry Derby Guildford Halifax Hexham Hulme Ipswich Kendal Leicester Leominster Marlborough Northampton Nottingham Oswestry Penrydd Rochdale Shaftesbury Sheffield Southwark Whalley Wigan

Translated	Knaresborough (to Ripon) Malmesbury (to Swindon) Pontefract (to Wakefield)

See also: Suffragan Bishops Act 1534; Assistant Bishop of Leicester; Assistant Bishop of Newcastle; Bishop for the Falkland Islands; Bishop to the Forces; spokesperson bishops; Bishop at Lambeth

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