Bishop of Exeter
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The Bishop of Exeter is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury.
The diocese covers the County of Devon. The see is in the City of Exeter where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter which was founded as an abbey possibly before 690.
The Bishop's residence is The Palace, Exeter.
Devon (/Wessex) has held a bishopric since about 905 when, on the division of the Diocese of Sherborne, the first cathedral was founded at Tawton (now Bishop's Tawton). In 912 the seat was moved to the Collegiate Holy Cross Church at Crediton. Lyfing became Bishop of Crediton in 1027 and shortly afterwards became Bishop of St. Germans. It was he who united the two sees covering Cornwall and Devon.
The seat was transferred again to the City of Exeter in 1050 under Edward the Confessor by Bishop Leofric. The diocese was redivided in 1877 along the Devon-Cornwall border by Henry Phillpotts, creating the Diocese of Truro.
The current bishop is the Right Reverend Michael Laurence Langrish, the 70th Lord Bishop of Exeter, who signs Michael Exon.
List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Exeter, England and its precursor offices
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
Template:Anglican Bishops & Archbishops - Great Britain
Sources
- Haydn's Book of Dignities (1894) Joseph Haydn/Horace Ockerby, reprinted 1969
- Whitaker's Almanack 1883 to 2004, Joseph Whitaker and Sons Ltd/A&C Black, London
See also