View source for Anglican Bishop of Lancaster

{{Short description|Suffragan bishop in the Church of England}}
{{For|the Roman Catholic Bishop|Roman Catholic Bishop of Lancaster}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Portal|Christianity}}
The '''Bishop of Lancaster''' is a [[suffragan bishop]] of the [[Church of England]] [[Diocese of Blackburn]], in the [[Province of York]], [[England]].<ref name=crockfords947/> The title takes its name after the traditional [[county town]] of [[Lancaster, Lancashire|Lancaster]] in [[Lancashire]]; the See was erected under the [[Suffragans Nomination Act 1888]] by [[Order in Council]] dated 24 July 1936.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34308 |pages=4735–6 |date=24 July 1936 }}</ref> The current bishop is [[Jill Duff]].

==List of Anglican bishops==
{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;" border="1" cellpadding="2"
! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Anglican Bishops of Lancaster 
|-valign=top 
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|From 
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|Until 
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="30%"|Incumbent 
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="45%"|Notes 
|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
|align="center"| 1936 ||align="center"| 1954 || '''[[Benjamin Pollard]]''' || [[Translation (ecclesiastical)|Translated]] to [[Bishop of Sodor and Man|Sodor and Man]] 
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
|align="center"| 1955 ||align="center"| 1975 || '''[[Anthony Hoskyns-Abrahall]]''' || 
|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
|align="center"| 1975 ||align="center"| 1985 || '''[[Dennis Page]]''' || 
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
|align="center"| 1985 ||align="center"| 1989 || '''[[Ian Harland]]''' || Translated to [[Bishop of Carlisle|Carlisle]]
|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
|align="center"| 1990 ||align="center"| 1997 || '''[[Jack Nicholls]]''' || Translated to [[Bishop of Sheffield|Sheffield]]
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
|align="center"| 1998 ||align="center"| 2006 || '''[[Stephen Pedley]]''' ||
|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
|align="center"| 2006 ||align="center"| 2017 || '''[[Geoff Pearson]]''' || Retired 31 July 2017.<ref name="gp-ret">[http://www.blackburn.anglican.org/news_more.asp?news_id=1441 Diocese of Blackburn — The Anglican Bishop of Lancaster announces his retirement] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118033647/http://www.blackburn.anglican.org/news_more.asp?news_id=1441 |date=2017-01-18 }} (Accessed 16 January 2017)</ref><ref name="gprd">[http://www.blackburn.anglican.org/news/32/bishop-geoff-s-retirement-reflections-in Diocese of Blackburn — Bishop Geoff's retirement reflections] (Accessed 26 July 2017)</ref>
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
|align="center"| 2018 ||align="center"| ''present'' || '''[[Jill Duff]]''' || Since consecration, 29 June 2018.<ref>[https://www.blackburn.anglican.org/news/107/next-anglican-bishop-of-lancaster-is-rev Diocese of Blackburn — Next Bishop of Lancaster is Jill Duff] (Accessed 13 March 2018)</ref>
|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
|align="center" colspan="4"| Source(s):<ref name=crockfords947>{{cite book |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory |edition=100th |location=London |publisher=Church House Publishing |year=2007 |page=947 |isbn=978-0-7151-1030-0}}</ref> 
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.crockford.org.uk/section.asp?id=9 Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings]

{{-}}
{{Anglican Bishops of Lancaster}}
{{Anglican Suffragan Bishops}}

[[Category:Anglican bishops of Lancaster]]
[[Category:Anglican suffragan bishops in the Diocese of Blackburn]]