Diocese of Southwark
| Diocese of Southwark Church of England | |
| Province: | Canterbury |
|---|---|
 Southwark Cathedral | |
| Bishop: | Christopher Chessun |
| Cathedral: | Southwark Cathedral |
| Organisation | |
| Suffragan bishop(s): |
Bishops of Kingston-upon-Thames, Croydon, Woolwich |
| Archdeaconries: | Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham & Greenwich Reigate, Southwark, Wandsworth |
| No. of parishes: | 300 |
| No. of churches: | 370 |
| Details | |
| Website: | southwark.anglican.org |
The Diocese of Southwark is a diocese of the Church of England serving eastern Surrey and parts of urban, north-western Kent. It is part of the Province of Canterbury.
The diocese was created on 1 May 1905[1] from part of the ancient Diocese of Rochester that was served by a Suffragan Bishop of Southwark (1891-1905). Before 1877 the area was part of the Diocese of Winchester.[2]
Organisation
The diocese is divided into three episcopal areas each of which has a suffragan bishop to supervise it, and each of which is further divided into two archdeaconries, of which archdeaconries five are in Surrey and one in Kent:
- Croydon Episcopal Area (overseen by the Bishop of Croydon):
- Kingston Episcopal Area (overseen by the Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames):
- Woolwich Episcopal Area (overseen by the Bishop of Woolwich) (Kent):
- Archdeaconry of Lewisham & Greenwich, cointaining the Deaneries of Charlton, Deptford, East Lewisham, Eltham and Mottingham, Plumstead, and West Lewisham
- Archdeaconry of Southwark, containing the Deaneries of Bermondsey, Camberwell, Dulwich, and Southwark and Newington
Within the diocese is the London palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace, which serves also as the records centre of the Church of England.
Bishops of Southwark
| Diocesan Bishops of Southwark | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
| 1905 | 1911 | Edward Talbot | Translated from Rochester, later to Winchester |
| 1911 | 1919 | Hubert Burge | Translated to Oxford |
| 1919 | 1932 | Cyril Garbett | Translated to Winchester, and later to York |
| 1932 | 1942 | Richard Parsons | Translated to Hereford |
| 1942 | 1959 | Bertram Simpson | |
| 1959 | 1980 | Mervyn Stockwood | |
| 1980 | 1991 | Ronald Bowlby | Translated from Newcastle |
| 1991 | 1998 | Robert Williamson | Translated from Bradford |
| 1998 | 2010 | Tom Butler | Translated from Leicester |
| 2011 | present | Christopher Chessun | |
| Source(s): [3][4] | |||
Outside links
References
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 27777, p. 2169, 21 March 1905. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 27777. p. 2169. 21 March 1905. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
- ↑ "Historical successions: Southwark". Crockford's Clerical Directory. http://www.crockford.org.uk/listing.asp?id=482. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S. et al., eds (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 274–275. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
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