Bishop of Coventry

"The Bishop's House", Coventry.

The Bishop of Coventry is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Coventry in the Province of Canterbury. In the Middle Ages, the Bishop of Coventry was a title used by the bishops known today as the Bishop of Lichfield.

The present diocese covers most of the County of Warwickshire. The see is in the City of Coventry where the bishop's seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Michael. The Bishop's residence is Bishop's House, Coventry.

History

From 1102 to 1238, the former Benedictine Priory and Cathedral of St Mary in the city was the seat of the early Bishops of Coventry (previously known as Bishops of Chester or of Lichfield). It was, afterwards, one of the two seats of the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield until the Reformation of the 1530s when Coventry (St Mary's) Cathedral was demolished and the bishop's seat moved to Lichfield, though the title remained as Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry until 1837, when Coventry was united with the Diocese of Worcester.

Bishops of the modern diocese

The diocese was revived in 1918 under King George V when the parish church of Saint Michael was elevated to cathedral status. The cathedral suffered under fire-bombing by the Luftwaffe on the night of 14 November 1940 and remains today as a dignified ruin adjacent to the new cathedral building consecrated on 25 May 1962. The 8th Bishop of Coventry was Colin Bennetts, who retired on 31 January 2008.

Christopher Cocksworth was ordained and consecrated as the 9th Bishop of Coventry on 3 July 2008 at Southwark Cathedral. He was enthroned and received into the diocese during a service at Coventry Cathedral on 1 November 2008. Cocksworth was previously Principal of Ridley Hall, part of the Cambridge Federation of Theological Colleges.

Bishops of Coventry
From Until Incumbent Notes
1918 1922 Bishop-Huyshe.jpg Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs Translated from Worcester.
1922 1931 Bishop-Charles-Carre.jpg Charles Lisle Carr Translated to Hereford.
1931 1943 No image.svg Mervyn Haigh Translated to Winchester.
1943 1955 No image.svg Neville Gorton
1956 1976 Bishop Cuthbert Bardsley.jpg Cuthbert Bardsley Translated from Croydon.
1976 1985 No image.svg John Gibbs Translated from Bradwell.
1985 1997 Simon Barrington-Ward 2011 (cropped).jpg Simon Barrington-Ward
1998 2008 No image.svg Colin Bennetts Translated from Buckingham.
2008 incumbent Official portrait of The Lord Bishop of Coventry crop 2.jpg Christopher Cocksworth
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Assistant bishops

Among those who have served as assistant bishops of the diocese have been:


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