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The Bishop of Birmingham heads the Church of England Diocese of Birmingham, in the Province of Canterbury, in England.. The diocese covers the North West of the historical county of Warwickshire and has its see in the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, where the seat of the diocese is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Philip which was elevated to cathedral status in 1905.
The Diocese of Birmingham is a diocese founded in 1905 in the Church of England's Province of Canterbury, covering the north-west of the traditional county of Warwickshire, the south-east of the traditional county of Staffordshire and the north-east of the traditional county of Worcestershire (now the central section of the West Midlands and small parts of south Staffordshire, north ...
During the First World War, Wakefield once controversially referred to British Roman Catholics as "guests of the nation". This earned him a rebuke from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton, George Burton. [15] Wakefield's Roman Catholic counterpart at Birmingham at the time was Edward Ilsley, under whose metropolitan jurisdiction Clifton ...
Hugh William Montefiore (born Hugh William Sebag-Montefiore; 12 May 1920 – 13 May 2005) was an English Anglican bishop and academic, who served as Bishop of Kingston from 1970 to 1978 and Bishop of Birmingham from 1978 to 1987.
Michael John Volland (born 2 May 1974) is a British Anglican bishop and academic, specialising in mission and practical theology.Since November 2023, he has been the tenth Bishop of Birmingham, the diocesan bishop of the Church of England's Diocese of Birmingham.
In February 1989 (aged 59 and long before retirement age), he was invited to become an Assistant Bishop of Birmingham and Canon of the Cathedral. [5] In retirement he continued to serve as an honorary assistant bishop in Birmingham. He died on 3 February 2017 at the age of 86. [6]
Bishops of the Anglican diocese of Birmingham, with its seat at St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham. Pages in category "Bishops of Birmingham" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Mark Santer (29 December 1936 – 14 August 2024) was an English Anglican bishop. [1] ... Bishop of Birmingham 1987–2002 Succeeded by. John Sentamu