The Bishop to His Majesty's Prisons is an episcopal post in the
Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britai ...
relating to the church's
chaplaincy to
His Majesty's Prison Service. The bishop holds this role alongside their
diocesan
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
or
suffragan see
A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. It exists in some Christian denominations, in particular the Catholic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, ...
and works to support the
Chaplain-General of Prisons.
List of bishops
See also
*
Chaplain-General of Prisons
References
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