From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diocesan bishop in the Church of England
The Bishop of Southwark (
SUDH -ərk )
[1] is the
ordinary of the
Church of England
Diocese of Southwark in the
Province of Canterbury .
[2]
[3]
Until 1877, Southwark had been part of the
Diocese of Winchester when it was transferred to the
Diocese of Rochester . In 1891, the
Bishop of Rochester appointed
Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs the only
suffragan bishop of Southwark and an ancient parish church in Southwark was restored to become a
pro-cathedral in 1897, which later became
Southwark Cathedral .
[2] The bishop's residence is Bishop's House,
Streatham .
[4]
On 1 May 1905,
[5] the
Diocese of Southwark was created and covers
Greater London south of the
River Thames and east
Surrey , broadly defined.
[2] The Bishop of Southwark is assisted by the suffragan bishops
of Croydon ,
of Kingston and
of Woolwich who each oversee an
episcopal area of the diocese.
[6]
The current and previous bishops have been cited in
canonical practice in its interpretation as "
valid but irregular " of three ordinations of candidates ordained abroad, associated with a conservative evangelical church-forming group, the Anglican Mission in England, having expressed, in the church's view, extreme views on a complex subject.
[7]
[8]
The current bishop is
Christopher Chessun , the 10th Bishop of Southwark, who signs +Christopher Southwark . He had previously been the area
Bishop of Woolwich (2005–2011). When the post-holder ranks among the longest-serving 21 bishops heading a diocese, he or she will qualify for a place in the
House of Lords , joining the other five who qualify
ex officio , including the two archbishops.
List of bishops
Assistant bishops
Among those who have served as
assistant bishops in the diocese have been:
1964–1968:
Gething Caulton , former
Bishop of Melanesia and
Assistant Bishop of Auckland
[11]
1968–1972 (d.):
John Boys , former
Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman
[12]
1967 – 1971 (ret.): Lawrence Barham, Minister of
Emmanuel Church, Wimbledon and former
Bishop of Rwanda and Burundi . Edward Lawrence Barham (25 June 1901 – 5 June 1973) was a
missionary in
Uganda and
Ruanda-Urundi . He was educated at
Merchant Taylors' and
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge ; and trained for the ministry at
Ridley Hall, Cambridge .
[13] He was made deacon on
Trinity Sunday 1925 (7 June)
[14] and ordained priest the following Trinity Sunday (30 May 1926) — both times by
Cyril Garbett , Bishop of Southwark, at
Southwark Cathedral .
[15] After his curacy in
Hatcham ,
County of London (1925–28), he went as a missionary of the
Church Mission Society , first to Uganda until 1938, then to Ruanda-Urundi, 1938–57. He was additionally made a Canon of the
Diocese of Uganda , 1939; and appointed
Archdeacon of Nkore-Kigezi (in the same diocese), 1957–59. Returning to England, he served as General Secretary of the CMS Ruanda Mission until his appointment as
Bishop of Rwanda and Burundi in 1964.
[13] He was consecrated a bishop on 8 March 1964, by
Leslie Brown ,
Archbishop of Uganda and
Bishop of Namirembe , at
Namirembe Cathedral ;
[16] and served until 1966, when he resigned and returned to London in 1966.
[13]
1974 – 1975:
Br John-Charles SSF , former
Assistant Bishop of Adelaide and
Bishop of Polynesia
[17]
1975 – 1987 (ret.):
Edward Knapp-Fisher ,
Canon and
Archdeacon of Westminster , Sub-
Dean of Westminster (from 1982) and former
Bishop of Pretoria
[18]
References
^ "Southwark", in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World (1952), New York: Columbia University Press.
^
a
b
c
Diocese of Southwark: History
Archived January 13, 2013, at the
Wayback Machine . Retrieved on 21 October 2013.
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory , 100th edition, (2007), Church House Publishing.
ISBN
978-0-7151-1030-0 .
^
"Christopher Thomas James Chessun" .
Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.).
Church House Publishing . Retrieved 2 October 2017 .
^
London Gazette . March 21, 1905.
^
Diocese of Southwark: Bishops and Officers
Archived 2006-10-15 at the
Wayback Machine . Retrieved on 25 November 2008.
^ Petre, Jonathan (4 November 2005).
"Evangelicals defy bishop by holding 'irregular' ordinations" . Telegraph. Retrieved 9 March 2012 .
^
"A.M.I.E" . Co-Mission. Retrieved 9 March 2012 .
^
"Historical successions: Southwark" . Crockford's Clerical Directory . Retrieved 14 July 2012 .
^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (2003) [1986]. Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 274–275.
ISBN
0-521-56350-X .
^ Blain, Michael. Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932 (2019) p. 268 (Accessed at
Project Canterbury , 26 June 2019)
^
"Boys, John" .
Who's Who . A & C Black. (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
a
b
c
"Barham, Edward Lawrence" .
Who's Who . A & C Black. (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
"The Trinity ordinations" .
Church Times . No. 3255. 12 June 1925. p. 715.
ISSN
0009-658X . Retrieved 26 May 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
^
"Trinity ordinations" .
Church Times . No. 3306. 4 June 1926. p. 631.
ISSN
0009-658X . Retrieved 26 May 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
^
"Farewell for new Bishop of Rwanda" .
Church Times . No. 5272. 28 February 1964. p. 16.
ISSN
0009-658X . Retrieved 26 May 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
^
"Vockler, Brother John-Charles" .
Who's Who . A & C Black. (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
"Knapp-Fisher, Edward George" .
Who's Who . A & C Black. (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
External links