The Bishop of Hulme was an episcopal

Episcopal polity

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 title used by a suffragan bishop

Suffragan bishop

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 of the Church of England

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 Diocese of Manchester

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, in the Province of York

Province of York

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, England

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. The title took its name after Hulme

Hulme

Hulme is an inner city area and electoral ward of Manchester, England. Located immediately south of Manchester city centre, it is an area with significant industrial heritage....

, an area of the city of Manchester

Manchester

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Following the retirement of the Right Reverend Stephen Lowe, the last Suffragan Bishop of Hulme, in July 2009, the post was axed and its duties were divided between the remaining suffragan bishops of Bolton

Bishop of Bolton

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 and Middleton

Bishop of Middleton

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, who assist the Diocesan Bishop of Manchester

Bishop of Manchester

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 in overseeing the diocese.

List of the Bishops of Hulme

No.	Incumbent	From	Until	Notes
1	John Charles Hill John Charles Hill The Rt Rev John Charles Hill was the inaugural Suffragan Bishop of Hulme from 1924 until 1930.He was born on 22 May 1862 and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. After curacies in Kensington and Rotherham he was Rector of Halesowen then Rural Dean of Bury before his...	1924	1930
2	Thomas Sherwood Jones Thomas Sherwood Jones The Rt Rev Thomas Sherwood Jones was the Suffragan Bishop of Hulme from 1930 until 1945. He was born on 4 March 1872 and educated at Durham University and ordained in 1899 . He was curate of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Liverpool then held incumbencies in Toxteth and Birkenhead and then Rural Dean...	1930	1945
3	Hugh Hornby	1945	1953	(father of Richard Hornby Richard Hornby Richard Phipps Hornby was a British Conservative Party politician and businessman. He was Member of Parliament for Tonbridge for over 17½ years, from June 1956 to February 1974, holding a junior ministerial position for a year in the mid-1960s. He worked for the J... )
4	Kenneth Ramsey	1953	1975
5	David Galliford	1975	1984	Translated Translation (ecclesiastical) Translation is the technical term when a Bishop is transferred from one diocese to another.This can be* From Suffragan Bishop status to Diocesan Bishop*From Coadjutor bishop to Diocesan Bishop*From one country's Episcopate to another...  to Bolton Bishop of Bolton The Bishop of Bolton is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Manchester, in the province of York, England. The title takes its name after the town of Bolton in Greater Manchester.-List of the Bishops of Bolton:...
6	Colin Scott Colin Scott (bishop) The Rt Rev Colin John Fraser Scott was the Suffragan Bishop of Hulme from 1984 until 1998. He was born on 14 May 1933 and educated at Berkhamsted School and Queens' College, Cambridge. After curacies at St Barnabas, Clapham Common and St James, Hatcham he was Vicar of St Mark, Kennington...	1984	1999
7	Stephen Lowe	1999	2009
Office abolished in 2009

External links

• Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings

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