Bishop of Pontefract

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The Bishop of Pontefract is a title given to a suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Wakefield, which is within the Province of York, England.^[1] The title takes its name after the town of Pontefract in West Yorkshire.

[edit] List of the Bishops of Pontefract

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
1931 to 1938	Campbell Richard Hone, DD	Domestic Chaplain to Bishop Eden, Wakefield, 1902-5. Vice Principal of Leeds Clergy School, 1905-9. Vicar of Mount Pellon, Halifax, 1909-16. Vicar of Brighouse, 1916-20. Rector and Rural Dean of Whitby, 1920-7. Canon and Prebendary Wistow in York Minster,1927-31. Subsequently to Bishop of Wakefield 1938-46.
1939 to 1949	Tom Longworth, DD	Born 1891. Canon and Archdeacon, 1938. Subsequently Bishop of Hereford 1949-61.
1949 to 1954	Arthur Harold Morris, DD	Born 1898. Canon and Archdeacon, 1946. Subsequently Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, 1954-65
1954 to 1961	George William Clarkson	Born 1897. Canon, 1936. Archdeacon, 1954. Subsequently Dean of Guildford, 1961-68, Assistant Bishop of Lincoln, 1968-77.
1961 to 1968	Eric Treacy	Born 1907. Vicar St Mary's Edge Hill, 1936-41. Chaplain to the Forces, 1940-5. Rector of Keighley, 1945-9. Rural Dean of South Craven, 1947-9. Rural Dean and Vicar of Halifax, 1950-61. Archdeacon of Halifax, 1949-61. Subsequently Bishop of Wakefield, 1968-77.
1968 to 1971	William Gordon Fallows, MA	Born 1913. Canon 1952. Archdeacon 1955. Subsequently Bishop of Sheffield, 1971-79.
1971 to 1992	Thomas Richard Hare, MA	Born 1922. Canon 1959-65. Archdeacon 1965-71.
1993 to 1998	John Thornley Finney	Born 1932. Canon 1984-9. Officer for Decade of Evangelism.
1998 to 2002	David Charles James	Subsequently Bishop of Bradford, 1992-2002.
2002 to Present	Anthony William Robinson

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings

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