Bishop of Taunton

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The Suffragan Bishop of Taunton is a post in the Church of England. The Bishop of Taunton is suffragan to the Bishop of Bath and Wells.

The current bishop is The Right Revd Peter Maurice. Peter was vicar of All Saints, Tooting for seven years before his appointment as archdeacon and is a graduate of St Chad's, Durham, and was trained for the ministry at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield. He was ordained deacon in 1972 and priest in 1976. He had a wide-ranging parish ministry in Diocese of Southwark and was at one time Rural Dean of Bermondsey and was also the local ministry adviser.^[1]

[edit] List of holders of the office

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
1911 to 1931	Charles Fane de Salis
1931 to 1945	George Arthur Hollis
1945 to 1955	Harry Thomas
1955 to 1962	Mark Allin Hodson
1962 to 1977	Francis Horner West
1977 to 1986	Peter John Nott
1986 to 1992	The Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch
1992 to 1997	The Rt Revd Will Stewart
1997 to May 2006	The Rt Revd Andrew Radford
2006 to present	The Rt Revd Peter Maurice

[edit] References

1. ^ The Good News

[edit] External links

• Bishop of Taunton

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