The Bishop of Chelmsford is the Ordinary of the

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Diocese of Chelmsford The Diocese of Chelmsford is a Church of England diocese, part of the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers Essex and the five East London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, and Waltham Forest (most of which wer ...

in the

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.'' Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition)'', Church House Publishing (). The current bishop is Guli Francis-Dehqani, since the

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of her

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on 11 March 2021.

History

The diocese was founded in 1914 under

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from the

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(of which it had been a part since 1877). The present diocese covers the County of

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

including those parts of Essex added to

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on 1 April 1965 and Ballingdon-with-Brundon, transferred to

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and Great/Little Chishill and Heydon, transferred to

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in 1894. The

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is in the city of

Chelmsford Chelmsford () is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England. It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Southend-on-Sea and Colchester. It is located north-east of London a ...

where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary, Saint Peter and Saint Cedd which was elevated to cathedral status in 1914. The bishop's residence is Bishopscourt,

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List of bishops

Assistant bishops

Assistant bishops of the diocese have included: *19611966 (res.): Geoffrey Stuart Smith was an assistant bishop; he was also Rector of

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from 1960. *19721974: Br John-Charles SSF, former Assistant Bishop of Adelaide and

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The appointment of Cecil de Carteret,

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, to be an assistant bishop was announced in 1931, but he died before he could take it up.

References

External links

Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings
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