Arms of the Bishop of Gloucester: Azure, two keys addorsed in saltire the wards upwards or[1]
Incumbent: Rachel Treweek
Location
Ecclesiastical province
Canterbury
Residence
Bishopscourt, Gloucester
Information
First holder
John Wakeman
Established
1541
Diocese
Gloucester
Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral
The Bishop of Gloucester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester in the Province of Canterbury.
The diocese covers the County of Gloucestershire and part of the County of Worcestershire. The see's centre of governance is the City of Gloucester where the bishop's chair (cathedra) is located in the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity.
The bishop's residence is Bishopscourt, Gloucester; very near the Cathedral.[2]
The office has been in existence since the foundation of the see in 1541 under King Henry VIII from part of the Diocese of Worcester. On 5 August 2014, Martyn Snow, the suffragan Bishop of Tewkesbury, became acting bishop of Gloucester.[3]
On 26 March 2015, it was announced that Rachel Treweek was to become the next bishop of Gloucester (and the first woman to serve as a diocesan bishop in the Church of England);[4] she legally became the bishop of Gloucester with the confirmation of her election on 15 June 2015.[5]
^Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 492
^"Rachel Treweek". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
^Diocese of Gloucester – Letter from the Bishop of Tewkesbury Archived 2014-08-08 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 7 August 2014)
^Diocese of Gloucester – The Bishop of Gloucester Designate Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 26 March 2015)
^Archbishop of Canterbury – Diary: Bishop of Gloucester – Confirmation of Election (Accessed 27 May 2015)
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