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{{Short description|Diocesan bishop in the Church of England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
{{For|the Canadian Roman Catholic prelate|Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough}}
{{Infobox diocese
| bishopric         = [[Peterborough]]
| border            = anglican
| image             = 
| coat              = Diocese of Peterborough arms.svg
| coat_size         = 200
| coat_caption      = Arms of the Bishop of Peterborough: ''Gules, two keys in saltire addorsed the wards upwards between four cross-crosslets fitchée or''<ref>Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.882, with added "the wards upwards" for clarity, as Debrett's blazon for Bishop of Gloucester</ref>
| incumbent         = [[Debbie Sellin]]
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| province          = [[Province of Canterbury|Canterbury]]
| residence         = {{nowrap|Bishop's Lodging,}} {{nowrap|The Palace,}} Peterborough
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| established       = 1541
| cathedral         = [[Peterborough Cathedral|Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, Peterborough]]
| first_incumbent   = [[John Chambers (bishop)|John Chambers]]
| diocese           = [[Anglican Diocese of Peterborough|Peterborough]]
<!---- Website ---->
}}
The '''Bishop of Peterborough''' is the [[Ordinary (officer)|ordinary]] of the [[Church of England]] [[Anglican Diocese of Peterborough|Diocese of Peterborough]] in the [[Province of Canterbury]].

The diocese covers the counties of [[Northamptonshire]] (including the [[Soke of Peterborough]]) and [[Rutland]].  The [[Episcopal see|see]] is in the City of [[Peterborough]], where the bishop's seat (''[[cathedra]]'') is located at the [[Peterborough Cathedral|Cathedral Church]] of [[Saint Peter]], [[Paul of Tarsus|Saint Paul]] and [[Saint Andrew]]. The bishop's residence is Bishop's Lodging, The Palace, Peterborough. The office has been in existence since the foundation of the diocese on 4 September 1541 under [[Henry VIII of England|King Henry VIII]].

The current Bishop of Peterborough is [[Debbie Sellin]], since the [[confirmation of election|confirmation]], on 13 December 2023 at [[Lambeth Palace Chapel]], of her [[canonical election|election]].<ref name="sellin-cofe">{{Cite tweet |user=Peterborodio |number=1735011812402237675 |date=13 December 2023 |title=This evening Bishop Debbie was confirmed as the 39th Bishop of Peterborough... |access-date=21 December 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231221172526/https://twitter.com/Peterborodio/status/1735011812402237675 |archive-date=21 December 2023 }}</ref>

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|assistant bishop]] in the Diocese of Ely with pastoral care for these parishes delegated to him by the [[Bishop of Ely]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Religion: Bishops bridge boundaries aboard boat |url=http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=845&ArticleID=832244 |work=Peterborough Evening Telegraph |publisher=Johnston Press |date=2 August 2004 |access-date=8 March 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070826202101/http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?sectionid=845 |archive-date=26 August 2007 }}
</ref><ref>{{cite news
 | title = Bridging the divide in a city
 | url = http://www.ely.anglican.org/news_events/media/press/details.html?id=26
 | work = Diocesan website - press releases
 | publisher = [[Diocese of Ely]]
 | date = 29 July 2004
 | access-date = 9 March 2007
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070307175451/http://www.ely.anglican.org/news_events/media/press/details.html?id=26
 | archive-date = 7 March 2007
 | url-status = dead
 }}</ref>

==List of bishops==
Chronological list of the Bishops of Peterborough:

{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;" border="1" cellpadding="2"
! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Peterborough
|-valign=center
! 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

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1541
| align="center"| 1556
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[John Chambers (bishop)|John Chambers]]'''
| Last [[Abbot of Peterborough]] Abbey.  Died in office

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1557
| align="center"| 1559
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[David Pole (bishop)|David Pole]]'''
| Deposed 

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1560
| align="center"| 1585
| [[File:Bp Edmund Scambler.jpg|60px]] '''[[Edmund Scambler]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Norwich|Norwich]] 

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1585
| align="center"| 1600
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Richard Howland]]'''
| Died in office

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1601
| align="center"| 1630
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Thomas Dove]]'''
| Died in office

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1630
| align="center"| 1632
| [[File:Bp William Piers.jpg|60px]] '''[[William Piers (bishop)|William Piers]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Bath and Wells|Bath & Wells]]

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1633
| align="center"| 1634
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Augustine Lindsell]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Hereford|Hereford]] 

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1634
| align="center"| 1638
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Francis Dee (bishop)|Francis Dee]]'''
| Died in office

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1639
| align="center"| 1646
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[John Towers (bishop)|John Towers]]'''
| Deprived of the see when the English episcopacy was abolished by Parliament on 9 October 1646; died 1649.

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1646
| align="center"| 1660
| colspan=2| The see was abolished during the [[Commonwealth of England|Commonwealth]] and the [[The Protectorate|Protectorate]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Plant |first=David |year=2002 |url=http://bcw-project.org/church-and-state/sects-and-factions/episcopalians |title=Episcopalians |website=BCW Project |access-date=25 April 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=King |first=Peter |date=July 1968 |title=The Episcopate during the Civil Wars, 1642-1649 |journal=[[The English Historical Review]] |volume= 83 |issue= 328 |pages=523–537 |publisher=Oxford University Press |jstor=564164 |doi=10.1093/ehr/lxxxiii.cccxxviii.523}}</ref>

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1660
| align="center"| 1663
| [[File:Bp Benjamin Laney.png|60px]] '''[[Benjamin Lany]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Lincoln|Lincoln]]

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1663
| align="center"| 1679
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Joseph Henshaw]]'''
| Died in office

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1679
| align="center"| 1685
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[William Lloyd (bishop of Norwich)|William Lloyd]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Llandaff|Llandaff]]; translated to [[Bishop of Norwich|Norwich]] 

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1685
| align="center"| 1690
| [[File:Bp Thomas White.jpg|60px]] '''[[Thomas White (bishop)|Thomas White]]'''
| Deprived of office

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1691
| align="center"| 1718
| [[File:Richard Cumberland.jpg|60px]] '''[[Richard Cumberland (philosopher)|Richard Cumberland]]'''
| Died in office

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1718
| align="center"| 1728
| [[File:WhiteKennett.jpg|60px]] '''[[White Kennett]]'''
| Died in office

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1729
| align="center"| 1747
| [[File:Bp Robert Clavering by Thomas Gibson.jpg|60px]] '''[[Robert Clavering]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Llandaff|Llandaff]]; died in office

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1747
| align="center"| 1757
| [[File:John Thomas, Bishop of Winchester.jpg|60px]] '''[[John Thomas (bishop of Winchester)|John Thomas]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Salisbury|Salisbury]] 

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1757
| align="center"| 1764
| [[File:Richard Terrick (1710-1777), Bishop of London, by Nathaniel Dance Holland.jpg|60px]] '''[[Richard Terrick]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of London|London]] 

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1764
| align="center"| 1769
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Robert Lamb (bishop)|Robert Lamb]]'''
| Died in office

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1769
| align="center"| 1794
| [[File:John Hinchliffe by MW Peters.jpg|60px]] '''[[John Hinchliffe]]'''
| Died in office

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1794
| align="center"| 1813
| [[File:Spencer Madan Bishop of Peterborough.jpg|60px]] '''[[Spencer Madan]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Bristol|Bristol]]; died in office

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1813
| align="center"| 1819
| [[File:Bp John Parsons by William Owen.jpg|60px]] '''[[John Parsons (bishop)|John Parsons]]'''||Died in office

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1819
| align="center"| 1839
| [[File:Herbert Marsh by John Ponsford.jpg|60px]] '''[[Herbert Marsh]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Llandaff|Llandaff]]; died in office

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1839
| align="center"| 1864
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[George Davys]]'''
| Died in office

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1864
| align="center"| 1868
| [[File:Dr Francis Jeune.jpg|60px]] '''[[Francis Jeune]]'''
| Died in office

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1868
| align="center"| 1891
| [[File:William Connor Magee portrait.jpg|60px]] '''[[William Connor Magee]]'''
| Translated to [[Archbishop of York|York]] 

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1891
| align="center"| 1897
| [[File:Mandell Creighton by Sir Hubert von Herkomer.jpg|60px]] '''[[Mandell Creighton]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of London|London]] 

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1897
| align="center"| 1916
| [[File:Edward Carr Glyn.jpg|60px]] '''[[Edward Carr Glyn]]'''
| John Mitchinson, [[#Assistant bishops|assistant bishop]] once acted diocesan&nbsp;bishop during Carr-Glyn's illness.<ref>{{Church Times | title = in memoriam: John Mitchinson, Bishop. | archive = 1918_09_27_225 | issue = 2905 | date = 27 September 1918 | page = 225 | accessed = 25 May 2019 }}</ref>

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1916
| align="center"| 1923
| [[File:FrankTheodoreWoods.jpg|60px]] '''[[Theodore Woods]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Winchester|Winchester]] 

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1924
| align="center"| 1927
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Cyril Bardsley]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Leicester|Leicester]]

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1927
| align="center"| 1949
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Claude Blagden]]'''
|	

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1949
| align="center"| 1956
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Spencer Leeson]]'''
| Died in office

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1956
| align="center"| 1961
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Robert Stopford (bishop)|Robert Stopford]]'''
| Previously [[Bishop of Fulham]]; translated to [[Bishop of London|London]] 

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1961
| align="center"| 1972
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Cyril Easthaugh]]'''
| Previously [[Bishop of Kensington]]

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1972
| align="center"| 1984
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Douglas Feaver]]'''
|

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 1984
| align="center"| 1995
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Bill Westwood]]'''
| Previously suffragan [[Bishop of Edmonton (London)]]

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 1996
| align="center"| 2009
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Ian Cundy]]'''
| Died in office

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 2010
| align="center"| 2023
| [[File:Official portrait of The Lord Bishop of Peterborough crop 2.jpg|60px]] '''[[Donald Allister]]'''
| Previously [[Archdeacon of Chester]].<ref>{{cite web |website=Diocese of Peterborough |title=Bishop of Peterborough announces retirement |url=https://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/aboutus/news/bishop-of-peterborough-announces-retirement.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724214750/https://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/aboutus/news/bishop-of-peterborough-announces-retirement.php |archive-date=24 July 2022 |access-date=3 August 2022 }}</ref>

|-bgcolor="white"
| align="center"| 2023
| align="center"| 2023
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] ''[[John Holbrook (bishop)|John Holbrook]] (acting)''
| [[Bishop of Brixworth]].

|-bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align="center"| 2023
| align="center"| ''present''
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Debbie Sellin]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Southampton|Southampton]], 13 December 2023.<ref name="sellin-cofe" />

|}

==Assistant bishops==
Among those called "Assistant Bishop of Peterborough" were:
*August 1881<ref name="jm">{{Church Times | title = Church News (col. 4) | archive = 1881_12_30_914 | issue = 988 | date = 30 December 1881 | page = 914 | accessed = 25 May 2019 }}</ref>{{snd}}November 1900:<ref>{{Church Times | title = Personal (col. 1) | archive = 1900_11_09_514 | issue = 1972 | date = 9 November 1900 | page = 514 | accessed = 25 May 2019 }}</ref> [[John Mitchinson (bishop)|John Mitchinson]] (Rector of [[Sibstone]]<ref name="jm" /> then [[Master of Pembroke College, Oxford]])<ref>{{Church Times | title = Preferments and Appointments | archive = 1899_02_17_190 | issue = 8829 | date = 17 February 1899 | page = 190 | accessed = 25 May 2019 }}</ref>
*1912–1917 (d.): [[Lewis Clayton]], [[Canon residentiary]] of [[Peterborough Cathedral]] and former [[Bishop&nbsp;suffragan of Leicester]]<ref>{{Church Times | title = Church news | archive = 1912_12_27_880 | issue = 2605 | date = 27 December 1912 | page = 880 | accessed = 20 September 2020 }}</ref>
*1926{{snd}}1945 (ret.): [[Norman Lang (bishop)|Norman Lang]], [[Canon residentiary]] of [[Peterborough Cathedral]]; Archdeacon [[Archdeacon of Northampton|of Northampton]] (until 1936), [[Archdeacon of Oakham|of Oakham]] (thereafter); and former [[Bishop suffragan of Leicester]]<ref>{{Who's Who |id=U239639 |title=Lang, Norman Macleod}}</ref> (resigned his suffragan See due to the erection of the [[Diocese of Leicester]], but continued in essentially the same role)<ref>{{Church Times | title = in memoriam: Norman Lang, Brother of Cosmo | archive = 1956_05_11_007 | issue = 4865 | date = 11 May 1956 | page = 7 | accessed = 1 June 2019 }}</ref>
*1950{{snd}}1963: [[Charles Aylen]], Vicar of [[Flore, Northamptonshire|Flore]] (1945–58) and non-residentiary Canon of Peterborough (1946–61); former [[Bishop of St&nbsp;Helena]]<ref>{{Who's Who | id=U151898 | title=Aylen, Charles Arthur William }}</ref>
*1952–1957 (res.): [[Gerald Vernon]], Vicar of [[Finedon]] and former [[Anglican Bishop of Madagascar|Bishop of Madagascar]]<ref>{{Who's Who | id= U51627 | title=Vernon, Gerald Richard }}</ref>
*1957–1969 (d.): [[Weston Stewart]], Rector of [[Cottesmore, Rutland]] until 1964 and former [[Bishop in Jerusalem]]<ref>{{Who's Who | id= U47621 | title=Stewart, Weston Henry }}</ref>
*1978{{snd}}1986 (ret.):<ref>{{Church Times | title = Assistant Bishop of Peterboro' | archive = 1978_08_25_002 | issue = 6028 | date = 25 August 1978 | page = 2 | accessed = 1 June 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Church Times | title = Retirement of Bishop Franklin | archive = 1986_07_11_002 | issue = 6439 | date = 11 July 1986 | page = 2 | accessed = 1 June 2019 }}</ref> [[William Franklin (Assistant Bishop of Peterborough)|William Franklin]]. former [[Episcopal Diocese of Colombia|Bishop of Colombia]]<ref>{{Who's Who | title=Franklin, William Alfred | id = U178507 | doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U178507 }}</ref>

[[Honorary assistant bishop]]s — retired bishops taking on occasional duties voluntarily — have included:
*1974–1978 (d.): [[Guy Marshall]], Vicar of [[Blakesley]] with [[Adstone]],<ref>{{Who's Who | title=Marshall, Guy | id = U157211 | doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U157211 }}</ref> former suffragan Bishop in Venezuela ([[Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago]])<ref>{{Church Times | title = Death of Bishop Guy Marshall | archive = 1978_08_11_002 | issue = 6026 | date = 11 August 1978 | page = 2 | accessed = 1 June 2019 }}</ref>
*1975–1984 (res.): [[Alan Rogers (bishop)|Alan Rogers]], retired Bishop [[Bishop of Fulham|of Fulham]] and [[Bishop of Edmonton, London|of Edmonton]]<ref>{{Who's Who | title=Rogers, Alan Francis Bright | id = U33014 | doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U33014 }}</ref><ref>{{Church Times | title = Clerical Appointments | archive = 1978_01_27_013 | issue = 5998 | date = 27 January 1978 | page = 13 | accessed = 1 June 2019 }}</ref>
*1981–1985 [[Paul Burrough]], Rector of [[Empingham]], Rutland and retired [[Bishop of Mashonaland]].<ref name="www">[[Who's Who|"Who was Who" 1897–2007]] London, [[A & C Black]], 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} [https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U9557]</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of abbots of Peterborough]]
*[[Dean of Peterborough]]

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

==References==
{{refbegin}}
*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
* [[Richard John King|King, Richard John]] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Great_Britain/England/_Topics/churches/_Texts/KINCAT*/Peterborough/2.html ''Handbook to the Cathedrals of England''] (Part II: History of the See, with Short Notices of the principal Bishops) John Murray, London, 1862
{{refend}}

==External links==
*[http://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/ Diocese of Peterborough website]

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