Bishop of Knaresborough

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The Bishop of Knaresborough is a title given to a suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Ripon and Leeds, which is within the Province of York, England.[1] The title takes its name after the historic market town and spa town of Knaresborough in North Yorkshire.

[edit] List of the Bishops of Knaresborough

Tenure Incumbent Notes
1905 to 1934 Lucius Frederick Moses Bottomley Smith (1860-1934)
1934 to 1938 Paul Fulcrand Delacour de Labilliere (1879-1946)
1938 to 1948 John Norman Bateman-Champain (1880-1950)
1948 to 1965 Henry Handley Vully de Candole (1895-1971)
1965 to 1972 John Howard Cruse (1908-1979)
1972 to 1979 Ralph Emmerson (1914-2008)
1979 to 1986 John Dennis (b.1931) . Translated to St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
1986 to 1997 Malcolm James Menin (b.1932)
1997 to 2004 Frank Valentine Weston (1935-2003)
2004 to Present James Harold Bell (b.1950)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing (ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0).

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