The Bishop of Peterborough is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Peterborough in the Province of Canterbury.
The diocese covers the counties of Northamptonshire, Rutland and the Soke of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. Its see is centred the City of Peterborough, where the bishop's seat (cathedra) is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Andrew.
The bishop's residence is Bishop's Lodging at The Palace in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
The office has been in existence since the foundation of the diocese on 4 September 1541 under King Henry VIII. The most recent and 37th Bishop of Peterborough was the Right Reverend Ian Patrick Martyn Cundy DD, who signed as Ian Petriburg. Cundy died on 7 May 2009.
Cundy was one of the 26 diocesan bishops who sit in the House of Lords as Lords Spiritual.
On 5 November 2009 it was announced by 10 Downing Street that the next Bishop of Peterborough is to be the Venerable Donald Allister who since 2002 has been the Archdeacon of Chester in the Diocese of Chester.[1]
As parts of the City of Peterborough are actually in the Diocese of Ely (those parishes south of the River Nene), the last Bishop of Peterborough was appointed as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Ely with pastoral care for these parishes delegated to him by the Bishop of Ely.[2][3]
References
- ^ "Diocese of Peterborough". Website of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 5 November 2009. http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page21214. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
- ^ "Religion: Bishops bridge boundaries aboard boat". Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Johnston Press). 2 August 2004. http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=845&ArticleID=832244. Retrieved 8 March 2007.
- ^ "Bridging the divide in a city". Diocesan website - press releases (Diocese of Ely). 29 July 2004. http://www.ely.anglican.org/news_events/media/press/details.html?id=26. Retrieved 9 March 2007.
- Haydn, Joseph and Ockerby, Horace Haydn's Book of Dignities W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd., London, 1894 reprinted 1969
- Whitaker's Almanack Joseph Whitaker & Sons Ltd. and A&C Black Publishers Ltd., London, 1883 to 2004
- King, Richard John Handbook to the Cathedrals of England (Part II: History of the See, with Short Notices of the principal Bishops) John Murray, London, 1862
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