The Bishop of Guildford is the Ordinary of the

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Diocese of Guildford __NOTOC__ The Diocese of Guildford is a Church of England diocese covering eight and half of the eleven districts in Surrey, much of north-east Hampshire and a parish in Greater London. The cathedral is Guildford Cathedral and the bishop is the ...

in the

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. The title had first appeared as a suffragan See in the

Diocese of Winchester The Diocese of Winchester forms part of the Province of Canterbury of the Church of England. Founded in 676, it is one of the older dioceses in England. It once covered Wessex, many times its present size which is today most of the historic enla ...

in 1874. The Bishop suffragan of Guildford assisted the

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in overseeing that diocese. Under

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, the Diocese of Guildford was created out of the north-eastern part of the Diocese of Winchester in 1927. The diocese covers the western half of the County of

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. The

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is in the town of

Guildford Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, around southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The name "Guildf ...

where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit which was built as a cathedral 1936 to 1965. The bishop's residence is

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, Jacobs Well — to the north of Guildford. The incumbent bishop is Andrew Watson, 10th Bishop of Guildford, since the confirmation of his election on 24 November 2014.

List of bishops

Assistant bishops

Among those who have served as assistant bishops of the diocese have been: *19301955 (d.):

Cyril Golding-Bird Cyril Henry Golding-Bird (18 September 1876 – 9 April 1955) was an Anglican bishop in the early decades of the 20th century. He was born on 18 September 1876 and educated at Merchant Taylors' and Lincoln College, Oxford. Ordained in 1897 he w ...

, Archdeacon of Dorking (until 1936), then of Surrey (until 1949); former Bishop of Kalgoorlie and of Mauritius *In 1952, Freddy Hawkes, Bishop suffragan of Kingston, retired to

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. He did some bishop's work in retirement, such as an ordination in 1956. *19551967 (res.): Basil Dale, Rector of

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(1955–1962), full-time assistant bishop (1962–1967) and former

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*19631983 (res.): St John Pike, Vicar of

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(1963–1971), Vicar of Botleys with Lyne and Long Cross (1971–1983) and former Bishop of Gambia and the Rio Pongas *19641972 (ret.):

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, Vicar of

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and former

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References

* ''Whitaker's Almanack'' to 2004, Joseph Whitaker and Sons Ltd/A&C Black, London {{Anglican Bishops & Archbishops - Great Britain

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