Bishop of Coventry (suffragan)

The Bishop of Coventry was a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury.

In the late nineteenth century there were two suffragan bishops of Coventry appointed to assist John Perowne, Bishop of Worcester, in overseeing the Diocese of Worcester.^[1]

Bishops of Coventry
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1891	1894	Henry Bowlby
1894	1903	Edmund Knox	Translated to Manchester.
1903	1918	No suffragan bishops appointed.
In 1918, the suffragan see ended with the creation of the diocesan see.
Source(s): ^[1]

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for earlier Bishops of Coventry, of Coventry and Lichfield, and of Lichfield and Coventry, see Bishop of Lichfield
Henry Bowlby Edmund Knox
for modern diocesan bishops, see Bishop of Coventry

Bishops suffragan in the Church of England

Active suffragan sees

Province of Canterbury

Province of York

Former suffragan sees

Abeyant	Alnwick Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Bishopwearmouth Boston Bristol Chelsea Cirencester Coventry Derby Guildford Halifax Hexham Hulme Ipswich Kendal Leicester Leominster Ludlow Maidstone Marlborough Northampton Nottingham Penrydd Rochdale Shaftesbury Sheffield Southwark Swansea Whalley Wigan
Translated	Knaresborough (to Ripon) Malmesbury (to Swindon) Pontefract (to Wakefield) Richmond (to Kirkstall)

See also: Suffragan Bishops Act 1534; Bishop for the Falkland Islands; Bishop to the Forces; spokesperson bishops; Bishop to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York

References

^ ^a ^b Crockford's Clerical Directory, p. 946.

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