Bishop of Maidstone

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The Bishop of Maidstone is a title given to a suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Canterbury, which is within the Province of Canterbury, England.^[1] The title takes its name after the county town of Maidstone in Kent. The Bishop of Maidstone has a similar though subordinate role to that of the Bishop of Dover.

[edit] List of the Bishops of Maidstone

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
1944 to 1946	Leslie Owen	Translated to Lincoln
1946 to 1956	no appointment
1956 to 1966	Stanley Woodley Betts
1966 to 1969	no appointment
1969 to 1976	Geoffrey Lewis Tiarks
1976 to 1980	Richard Henry McPhail Third	Translated to Dover
1980 to 1987	Robert Maynard Hardy	Translated to Lincoln
1987 to 1992	David James Smith	Translated to Bradford
1992 to 2001	Gavin Hunter Reid[2]
2001 to Present	Graham Alan Cray

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings

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