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The '''Bishop of Stepney''' is an [[Episcopal polity|episcopal]] title used by a [[suffragan bishop]] of the [[Church of England]] [[Diocese of London]], in the [[Province of Canterbury]], [[England]].<ref name=crockfords948/> The title takes its name after [[Stepney]], an inner-city district in the [[London Borough of Tower Hamlets]]. The post is held by [[Joanne Grenfell]]<ref name="jg-ann">{{Cite web|url=https://www.london.anglican.org/articles/new-bishop-of-stepney-announced/|title=New Bishop of Stepney announced|date=May 7, 2019}}</ref> whose consecration as bishop, and start of her tenure as Bishop of Stepney, was on 3 July 2019 at [[St Paul's Cathedral]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.london.anglican.org/articles/new-bishop-of-stepney-announced/ |title=New Bishop of Stepney announced &#124; Diocese of London |publisher=London.anglican.org |date=2019-05-07 |access-date=2020-05-14}}</ref> the principal consecrator was [[Justin Welby]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.london.anglican.org/articles/new-bishop-of-stepney-consecrated-at-st-pauls/ |title=New Bishop of Stepney consecrated at St Paul’s &#124; Diocese of London |publisher=London.anglican.org |date=2019-07-03 |access-date=2020-05-14}}</ref>

The first bishop was appointed to take responsibility for North and East London, which had been under the care of the [[Bishop of Bedford]]; the new See was erected because the retiring bishop [[Robert Billing]] retained the See of Bedford, and Stepney was a more obvious See for the suffragan for the East End.<ref>{{Church Times | title = Church news | archive = 1895_04_11_418 | issue = 1681 | date = 11 April 1895 | page = 418 | accessed = 19 September 2020 }}</ref> In 1898, the new [[Bishop of Islington]] received responsibility for North London.<ref>{{Church Times | title = London diocesan conference | archive = 1898_04_29_468 | issue = 1840 | date = 29 April 1898 | page = 468 | accessed = 19 September 2020 }}</ref> In the experimental [[area scheme]] of 1970, the bishop was given oversight of the deaneries of Tower Hamlets, Hackney, and Islington.<ref>{{Church Times | title = Virtual autonomy for London's ‘area bishops’? | archive = 1970_02_20_01 | issue = 5584 | date = 20 February 1970 | page = 1 | accessed = 29 September 2020 }}</ref> The Bishops suffragan of Stepney have been [[episcopal area (Anglicanism)|area bishops]] since the London area scheme was founded in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|title=4: The Dioceses Commission, 1978–2002|url=http://www.churchofengland.org/media/40670/chapter4.pdf|publisher=Church of England|access-date=23 April 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607020502/http://www.churchofengland.org/media/40670/chapter4.pdf|archive-date=7 June 2012}}</ref>

==List of bishops==
{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;" border="1" cellpadding="2"
! colspan="5" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Stepney 
|-valign=top 
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|From 
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|Until 
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="30%" colspan=2|Incumbent 
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="45%"|Notes

|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
| align="center"| 1895
| align="center"| 1897
| [[File:GeorgeForrestBrowne2.jpg|center|60px]]
| '''[[George Forrest Browne]]'''
| <small>(1833–1930). [[Translation (ecclesiastical)|Translated]] to [[Bishop of Bristol|Bristol]]</small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
| align="center"| 1897
| align="center"| 1901<ref name=LG27308>{{London Gazette |issue=27308 |date=26 April 1901 |page=2855}}</ref>
| [[File:Arthur Winnington-Ingram before 1939.png|center|60px]]
| '''[[Arthur Winnington-Ingram]]'''
| <small>(1858–1946). Translated to [[Bishop of London|London]]</small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
| align="center"| 1901<ref name=LG27308/>
| align="center"| 1909
| [[File:Bishop of Stepney.jpg|center|60px]] 
| '''[[Cosmo Gordon Lang]]'''
| <small>(1864–1945). Translated to [[Archbishop of York|York]], and later to [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury]]</small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
| align="center"| 1909
| align="center"| 1919
| [[File:Henry Luke Paget, Rotary.jpg|center|60px]] 
| '''[[Luke Paget]]'''
| <small>(1853–1937). Formerly [[Bishop of Ipswich]]. Translated to [[Bishop of Chester|Chester]]</small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
| align="center"| 1919
| align="center"| 1928
| [[File:Henry Mosley (bishop) (1).png|center|60px]] 
| '''[[Henry Mosley (bishop)|Henry Mosley]]'''
| <small>(1868–1948). Translated to [[Bishop of Southwell|Southwell]]</small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
| align="center"| 1928
| align="center"| 1936
| [[File:Charles Edward Curzon.png|center|60px]] 
| '''[[Charles Curzon]]'''
| <small>(1878–1954). Translated to [[Bishop of Exeter|Exeter]]</small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
| align="center"| 1936
| align="center"| 1952
| [[File:Robert Hamilton Moberly.png|center|60px]] 
| '''[[Robert Moberly (bishop)|Robert Moberly]]'''
| <small>(1884–1978)</small>
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
| align="center"| 1952
| align="center"| 1957
| 
| '''[[Joost de Blank]]'''
| <small>(1908–1968)</small>
|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
| align="center"| 1957
| align="center"| 1968
|  
| '''[[Evered Lunt]]'''
| <small>(1900–1982)</small>
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
| align="center"| 1968
| align="center"| 1978
| [[File:TrevorHuddlestonStatueBedford (cropped).JPG|center|60px]] 
| '''[[Trevor Huddleston]]'''
| <small>(1913–1998). Translated to [[Bishop of Mauritius|Mauritius]]</small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
| align="center"| 1978
| align="center"| 1991
|  
| '''[[Jim Thompson (bishop)|Jim Thompson]]'''
| <small>(1936–2003). First area bishop from 1979; translated to [[Bishop of Bath and Wells|Bath and Wells]]</small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
| align="center"| 1992
| align="center"| 1995
| [[File:Richard Chartres Bishop of London.jpg|center|60px]] 
| '''[[Richard Chartres]]'''
| <small>(b. 1947). Consecrated on 22 May 1992. Translated to [[Bishop of London|London]] in 1995</small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
| align="center"| 1996
| align="center"| 2002
| [[File:Official portrait of The Lord Archbishop of York crop 2.jpg|center|60px]] 
| '''[[John Sentamu]]'''
| <small>(b. 1949). Translated to [[Bishop of Birmingham|Birmingham]], and later to [[Archbishop of York|York]]</small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
| align="center"| 2003
| align="center"| 2010
|  
| '''[[Stephen Oliver (bishop)|Stephen Oliver]]'''
| <small>(b. 1948) Retired 6 July 2010</small>
|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
| align="center"| ''2010''
| align="center"| ''2011''
| [[File:Rose-vestment-bishop-willesden (cropped).jpg|center|60px]] 
| ''[[Pete Broadbent]]<br /><small>[[Bishop of Willesden]]</small>''
| <small>''Acted as Bishop of Stepney'' from 7 July 2010,<ref>[http://communications.london.anglican.org/ministrymatters/2010/06/acting-bishop-of-stepney/ Diocese of London — Ad clerum: Acting Bishop of Stepney] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721180749/http://communications.london.anglican.org/ministrymatters/2010/06/acting-bishop-of-stepney/ |date=July 21, 2011 }}</ref><ref name="cler">[http://communications.london.anglican.org/ministrymatters/2011/01/ad-clerum-the-bishop-of-willesden/ Diocese of London — Ad clerum: The Bishop of Willesden] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721180731/http://communications.london.anglican.org/ministrymatters/2011/01/ad-clerum-the-bishop-of-willesden/ |date=July 21, 2011 }}</ref> effectively suspended from 23 November 2010 to 10 January 2011,<ref name="cler" /> resumed as Acting Bishop until 22 July 2011.</small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
| align="center"| 2011
| align="center"| 2018
| 
| '''[[Adrian Newman (bishop)|Adrian Newman]]'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/suffragan-bishop-of-stepney|title=Suffragan Bishop of Stepney|website=GOV.UK}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.london.anglican.org/news/|title=Latest news}}</ref>
| <small>(b. 1958) Resigned on 31 October 2018 on health grounds.<ref name="an-res">[https://www.london.anglican.org/articles/bishop-stepney-to-step-down/ Bishop of Stepney to step down] (Accessed 24 July 2018)</ref></small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
| align="center"| ''2018''
| align="center"| ''2019''
| [[File:Rose-vestment-bishop-willesden (cropped).jpg|center|60px]] 
| ''[[Pete Broadbent]]<br /><small>[[Bishop of Willesden]]</small>''
| <small>''Acting as Bishop of Stepney'' from 31 October 2018 until Grenfell's consecration.<ref name="an-res" /></small>

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2" 
| align="center"| 2019
| align="center"| ''present''
| 
| '''[[Joanne Grenfell]]'''
| Since 3 July 2019 consecration.<ref name="jg-ann" />

|-valign=top bgcolor="white" 
|align="center" colspan="4"| Source(s):<ref name=crockfords948>{{cite book |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory |edition=100th |location=London |publisher=Church House Publishing |year=2007 |page=948 |isbn=978-0-7151-1030-0}}</ref> 
|}

==References==
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==External links==
{{Portal|Christianity}}
* [http://www.crockford.org.uk/section.asp?id=9 Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings]
* * {{cite web |title=The Bishop of Stepney |url=http://www.stgitehistory.org.uk/bishopofstepney.html |website=St George in the East Church |publisher=St George in the East PCC |access-date=23 October 2019}}
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