Bedford
Bishops Suffragan of Bedford
Bedford is among the twenty-six places listed in the Suffragan Bishops Act, 1534,to "be taken and accepted for Sees of Bishops Suffragan to be made in this realm, and the Bishops of such Sees shall be called Suffragans of this Realm". John Hodgkins thus became Bishop Suffragan of the See of Bedford in 1537. After 1592 the Act ceased to be used until 1870, although the Canons of 1604 assume the existence of suffragans. In 1879, William Walsham How (translated to Wakefield), and in 1888, Robert Claudius Billing (died 1898) were appointed suffragans to the Bishop of London, with the title Bishop of Bedford. Suffragan bishops at this period - and until 1914 - in the Diocese of St. Albans were the Bishops of Colchester (from 1882) and of Barking (from 1901).
In 1935 the Bishop of St. Albans petitioned the Crown to call out of abeyance the ancient Suffragan Bishopric of Bedford and to appoint a suffragan bishop to give episcopal assistance in the Diocese of St. Albans. Since then, the Suffragan Bishops of Bedford have been:
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1935 James Lumsden Barkway (translated to St. Andrew's) |
1963 Albert John Trillo (translated to Hertford) |
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1939 Henry Aylmer Skelton (translated to Lincoln) | 1968 John Tyrrell Holmes Hare |
| 1942 Vacancy |
1977 Andrew Alexander Kenny Graham (translated to Newcastle) |
| 1948 Claud Thomas Thellusson Wood | 1981 David John Farmbrough |
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1953 Angus Campbell MacInnes (translated to Jerusalem) | 1994 John Henry Richardson |
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1957 Basil Tudor Guy (translated to Gloucester) | 2003 Richard Neil Inwood |
