Diocese of Southwark

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Diocese of Southwark
Church of England
Province: Canterbury
Arms of the Bishop of Southwark
Southwark Cathedral, 24th floor.jpg

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:

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

  1. London Gazette: no. 27777, p. 2169, 21 March 1905. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  2. London Gazette: no. 27777. p. 2169. 21 March 1905. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
  3. "Historical successions: Southwark". Crockford's Clerical Directory. http://www.crockford.org.uk/listing.asp?id=482. Retrieved 14 July 2012. 
  4. 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. 


Dioceses of the Church of England

Province of Canterbury:
Bath & Wells •
Birmingham • Bristol • Canterbury • Chelmsford • Chichester • Coventry • Derby • Ely • Exeter • Gibraltar in Europe • Gloucester • Guildford • Hereford • Leicester • Lichfield • Lincoln • London • Norwich • Oxford • Peterborough • Portsmouth • Rochester • Saint Albans • Saint Edmundsbury & Ipswich • Salisbury • Southwark • Truro • Winchester • Worcester
Province of York:
Blackburn •
Carlisle • Chester • Durham • Leeds • Liverpool • Manchester • Newcastle • Sheffield • Sodor & Man • Southwell & Nottingham • York