Bishop of Hull

The Bishop of Hull is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of York, England.^[1] The suffragan bishop, along with the Bishop of Selby and the Bishop of Whitby, assists the Archbishop of York in overseeing the diocese.

The title takes its name after the city of Kingston upon Hull and was first created under the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534.^[2] Today, the Bishop of Hull is responsible for the Archdeaconry of the East Riding.

List of bishops

Bishops of Hull
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1538	1559	Robert Pursglove	Consecrated on 29 December 1538; deprived 1559.
1559	1891	in abeyance
1891	1910	Richard Blunt
1910	1913	John Augustine Kempthorne ^[3]	Translated to Lichfield
1913	1929	Francis Gurdon
1929	1931	no appointment
1931	1934	Bernard Heywood	Translated to Ely
1934	1957	Henry Vodden
1957	1965	George Townley
1965	1977	Hubert Higgs
1977	1981	Geoffrey Paul	Translated to Bradford
1981	1994	Donald Snelgrove
1994	1998	James Jones	Translated to Liverpool
1998	17 October 2014	Richard Frith	Translated to Hereford
3 July 2015	present	Alison White^[4]	Consecrated 3 July 2015.
Source(s):^[1]^[2]

References

1 2 Crockford's Clerical Directory (100th ed.). London: Church House Publishing. 2007. p. 947. ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0.
1 2 Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 287. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
↑ "Historical Pictures". All Saints' Church in Hessle. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2008.
↑ "New Bishop of Hull". Diocese of York. Retrieved 25 March 2015.

External links

Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings

Bishops of Hull

Richard Blunt John Kempthorne Francis Gurdon Bernard Heywood Henry Vodden George Townley Hubert Higgs Geoffrey Paul Donald Snelgrove James Jones Richard Frith Alison White

Diocese of York

York Minster Bishopthorpe Palace Diocesan House, York

Office holders	John Sentamu, Archbishop of York (Primate of England) Paul Ferguson, Bishop suffragan of Whitby John Thomson, Bishop suffragan of Selby Alison White, Bishop suffragan of Hull AEO: the Bishop suffragan of Beverley Vivienne Faull, Dean of York David Butterfield, Archdeacon for Generous Giving and Stewardship Sarah Bullock, Archdeacon of York Andy Broom, Archdeacon of the East Riding Sam Rushton, Archdeacon of Cleveland

Provincial episcopal visitors	Glyn Webster, Bishop suffragan of Beverley

Historic offices	Bishop suffragan of Sheffield (1901–1914; Diocese of Sheffield erected) Archdeacon of Richmond (12th century–1541; became Diocese of Chester) Archdeacon of Nottingham (12th century–1837; transferred to Lincoln) Archdeacon of Sheffield (1884–1914; became Diocese of Sheffield) Archdeacon of Doncaster (1913–1914; transferred to Sheffield)

Historic palaces	Cawood Castle (12th–17th centuries) York Place (13th–16th centuries) Hampton Court Palace (1514–1528) York House, Strand (16th–17th centuries)

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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