The Anglican Bishop of Ramsbury is an episcopal

Episcopal polity

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 title used by a suffragan bishop

Suffragan bishop

A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop. He or she may be assigned to an area which does not have a cathedral of its own.-Anglican Communion:...

 of the Church of England

Church of England

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 Diocese of Salisbury

Diocese of Salisbury

The Diocese of Salisbury is a Church of England diocese in the south of England. The diocese covers Dorset and most of Wiltshire and is a constituent diocese of the Province of Canterbury. The diocese is led by the Bishop of Salisbury and the diocesan synod...

, in the Province of Canterbury

Province of Canterbury

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, England

England

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. The title takes its name after the town of Ramsbury

Ramsbury

Ramsbury is a village in Ramsbury and Axford civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. The village is in the Kennet Valley near the Berkshire boundary. The nearest towns are Hungerford about east and Marlborough about west. The much larger town of Swindon is about to the north.The civil...

 in Wiltshire

Wiltshire

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, and was first used between the 10th and 11th centuries by the Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxons

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 Bishops of Ramsbury

Bishop of Ramsbury

This page refers to holders of the Saxon bishopric. See Bishop of Ramsbury for the modern suffragan bishop.In Saxon times the village of Ramsbury in Wiltshire was an extremely important location for the Church, and several of the early bishops went on to become Archbishops of Canterbury.The...

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The diocese announced in August 2011 that the Bishop of Salisbury had commissioned (under new national guidelines) a consultation as to whether a new Bishop of Ramsbury should be appointed.

List of the Anglican Bishops of Ramsbury

No.	Incumbent	From	Until	Notes
1	John Neale John Neale (bishop) The Rt Rev John Robert Geoffrey Neale was the inaugural Bishop of Ramsbury from 1974 to 1988. Born on 21 September 1926 he was educated at Felsted School and then served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He completed his studies at King's College London and St Boniface, Warminster and... (b. 1926)	1974	1988
2	Peter Vaughan (b. 1930)	1989	1998
3	Peter Hullah Peter Hullah The Rt Rev Peter Fearnley Hullah is a former Suffragan Bishop of Ramsbury. He was born on 7 May 1949 and educated at Bradford Grammar School and King's College London.Ordained in 1974 he began his career with a curacy at St Michael and All Angels, Summertown, Oxford and was then successively a ... (b. 1949)	1999	2005
4	Stephen Conway Stephen Conway Stephen David Conway is the current Bishop of Ely, and was until 6 December 2010 the Bishop of Ramsbury.Conway was educated at Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School, Keble College, Oxford and Selwyn College, Cambridge. After a period of study at Westcott House, Cambridge he was ordained in 1987... (b. 1957)	2006	2011	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 Ely Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Ely is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire , together with a section of north-west Norfolk and has its see in the City of Ely, Cambridgeshire, where the seat is located at the... .

External links

• Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings

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