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Anglican Bishop of Southwark

Diocesan bishop in the Church of England

Field	Value
bishopric	Southwark
border	anglican
image	Official portrait of The Lord Bishop of Southwark (cropped).jpg
incumbent	Christopher Chessun
province	Canterbury
residence	Bishop's House, Streatham
established	1905
cathedral	St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark
diocese	Southwark

The Bishop of Southwark ( ) is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Southwark in the Province of Canterbury.

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.

On 1 May 1905, the Diocese of Southwark was created and covers Greater London south of the River Thames and east Surrey, broadly defined.

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.

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

Diocesan Bishops of Southwark	From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1905	1911	[[File:Edward Stuart Talbot 001.jpg	60px]] Edward Talbot	Translated from Rochester, translated to Winchester
1911	1919	[[File:Hubert Murray Burge by George Harcourt.jpg	60px]] Hubert Burge	Translated to Oxford
1919	1932	[[File:Cyril-Forster-Garbett.jpg	60px]] Cyril Garbett	Translated to Winchester, and later to York
1932	1941	[[File:No image.svg	60px]] Richard Parsons	Translated from Middleton, translated to Hereford
1942	1959	[[File:No image.svg	60px]] Bertram Simpson	Translated from Kensington
1959	1980	[[File:No image.svg	60px]] Mervyn Stockwood
1980	1991	[[File:No image.svg	60px]] Ronald Bowlby	Translated from Newcastle
1991	1998	[[File:No image.svg	60px]] Roy Williamson	Translated from Bradford
1998	2010	[[File:Thomas Frederick Butler June 20, 2009 by Steve Punter (cropped).jpg	60px]] Tom Butler	Translated from Leicester
2011	incumbent	[[File:Official portrait of The Lord Bishop of Southwark (cropped).jpg	60px]] Christopher Chessun	Translated from Woolwich
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Assistant bishops

Lawrence Barham 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
1968–1972 (d.): John Boys, former Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman
19671971 (ret.): Lawrence Barham, Minister of Emmanuel Church, Wimbledon and former Bishop of Rwanda and Burundi. Edward Lawrence Barham (25 June 19015 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. He was made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1925 (7 June) and ordained priest the following Trinity Sunday (30 May 1926) — both times by Cyril Garbett, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral. 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. He was consecrated a bishop on 8 March 1964, by Leslie Brown, Archbishop of Uganda and Bishop of Namirembe, at Namirembe Cathedral; and served until 1966, when he resigned and returned to London in 1966.
19741975: Br John-Charles SSF, former Assistant Bishop of Adelaide and Bishop of Polynesia
19751987 (ret.): Edward Knapp-Fisher, Canon and Archdeacon of Westminster, Sub-Dean of Westminster (from 1982) and former Bishop of Pretoria

References

"Southwark", in ''The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World'' (1952), New York: Columbia University Press.
[http://www.southwark.anglican.org/who/history Diocese of Southwark: History] {{webarchive. link. (January 13, 2013 . Retrieved on 21 October 2013.)
''Crockford's Clerical Directory'', 100th edition, (2007), Church House Publishing. {{ISBN. 978-0-7151-1030-0.
The bishop's residence is Bishop's House, [[Streatham]].{{Crockford
''[[London Gazette]]''. March 21, 1905.
Petre, Jonathan. (2005-11-04). "Evangelicals defy bishop by holding 'irregular' ordinations". Telegraph.
"A.M.I.E". Co-Mission.
"Historical successions: Southwark". Crockford's Clerical Directory.
(2003). "Handbook of British Chronology". Cambridge University Press.
Blain, Michael. ''Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932'' (2019) p. 268 (Accessed at [http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/blain_directory/directory.pdf Project Canterbury], 26 June 2019)
"Boys, John".
"Barham, Edward Lawrence".
(12 June 1925). "The Trinity ordinations".
(4 June 1926). "Trinity ordinations".
(28 February 1964). "Farewell for new Bishop of Rwanda".
"Vockler, Brother John-Charles".
"Knapp-Fisher, Edward George".

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