Bishop of Chelmsford

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The Bishop of Chelmsford heads the Anglican Diocese of Chelmsford in the Province of Canterbury.

The present diocese covers the County of Essex including those parts of Essex added to Greater London on 1.4.1965 and Ballingdon-with-Brundon, transferred to Suffolk and Great/Little Chishill and Heydon, transferred to Cambridgeshire in 1894. The see is in the town of Chelmsford 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, Margaretting, Ingatestone, Essex.

The diocese was founded in 1914 under King George V from the Diocese of Saint Albans (of which it had been a part since 1877). The current bishop is the Right Reverend John Warren Gladwin, MA, DipTh, the 9th Lord Bishop of Chelmsford, who signs John Chelmsford.

[edit] List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Chelmsford, England

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
24 February 1914 to 14 July 1923	John Edwin Watts Ditchfield	Died in office
1923 to 1929	Frederick Sumpter Guy Warman	Translated from Truro; translated to Manchester
25 January 1929 to 30 November 1950	Henry Albert Wilson	Retired
2 February 1951 to 1961	Sherard Falkner Allison, DD	Translated to Winchester
24 February 1962 to 30 April 1971	John Gerhard Tiarks
1971 to 30 September 1985	Albert John Trillo	Translated from Hertford; retired
1986 to 30 April 1996	John Waine, KCVO,BA	Translated from St Edmundsbury; retired
1996 to June 2003	John Freeman Perry	Translated from Southampton; retired
2003 to present	John Warren Gladwin, MA, DipTh	Translated from Guildford 2004

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