Bishop of Truro

The bishop of Truro is the ordinary (diocesan bishop) of the Church of England Diocese of Truro in the Province of Canterbury.<ref>The Diocese of Truro: Homepage. Retrieved on 7 December 2008.</ref>

History

There had been between the 9th and 11th centuries a bishopric of Cornwall until it was merged with Crediton and the sees were transferred to Exeter in 1050.<ref>Template:Harvnb, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 214–215.</ref>

The Diocese of Truro was established by Act of Parliament in 1876 under Queen Victoria. It was created by the division of the Diocese of Exeter in 1876 approximately along the Devon-Cornwall border (a few parishes of Devon west of the River Tamar were included in the new diocese). The bishop's seat is located at Truro Cathedral and the official residence at "Lis Escop" in Feock, south of Truro. The Bishop of Truro is assisted by the suffragan Bishop of St Germans in overseeing the diocese.

Until they moved to Feock the bishops resided in Kenwyn. "Lis Escop" (the Kenwyn vicarage of 1780) became after the establishment of the Diocese of Truro the bishop's residence.<ref>Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed. Penguin Books; pp. 84-85</ref> After the bishops moved out for some years it housed part of Truro Cathedral School (closed 1981) then the Community of the Epiphany (Anglican nuns) and is now, as Epiphany House, a Christian retreat and conference centre. Lis escop is Cornish for "bishop's palace".

List of bishops

Bishops of Truro
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1877	1883	File:Edward Benson.jpg Edward White Benson	Translated to Canterbury
1883	1891	File:Bp George Howard Wilkinson NPG.jpg George Wilkinson	Translated to St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane; later became Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church
1891	1906	File:Bp John Gott NPG.jpg John Gott	Confirmed 28 September 1891.
1906	1912	File:CWStubbs.jpg Charles Stubbs
1912	1919	File:Winfrid O Burrows, Bp Truro.jpg Winfrid Burrows	Translated to Chichester
1919	1923	File:No image.svg Guy Warman	Translated to Chelmsford; later to Manchester
1923	1935	File:Walter Frere consecration (cropped).jpg Walter Frere Template:Post-nominals
1935	1951	File:No image.svg Joseph Hunkin<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1951	1960	File:No image.svg Edmund Morgan	Translated from Southampton
1960	1973	File:No image.svg Maurice Key	Translated from Sherborne
1973	1981	File:No image.svg Graham Leonard	Translated from Willesden; later to London. Ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1994.
1981	1989	File:No image.svg Peter Mumford	Translated from Hertford
1990	1997	File:No image.svg Michael Ball Template:Post-nominals	Translated from Jarrow. Founder of the Community of the Glorious Ascension with his twin brother.
1997	2008	File:No image.svg Bill Ind	Translated from Grantham
2009	2017	File:Bishop at Lambeth at the 2019 Blessing the Thames Ceremony (cropped2).jpg Tim Thornton	Translated from Sherborne; resigned Template:Circa.<ref name="tt-res">Lambeth Palace — Tim Thornton announced as new Bishop at Lambeth (Accessed 4 April 2017)</ref>
2017	2018	File:No image.svg Chris Goldsmith, Bishop of St Germans	Acting diocesan bishop, August 2017Template:Snd30 November 2018
2018	2023	File:Review into Christian persecution (48306616482) (Philip Mounstephen cropped).jpg Philip Mounstephen
2023	2025	File:No image.svg Hugh Nelson, Bishop of St Germans	Acting diocesan bishop, 17 September 2023Template:Snd28 March 2025
2025	present	File:Bishop David Williams (cropped 2).jpg David Williams	Translated from Basingstoke, 28 March 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Source(s):<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation				CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref><ref name=crockfordsweb481>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=handbook275>Template:Harvnb, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 275.</ref>

Assistant bishops

Among those who have served as assistant bishops in the diocese were:

• 1930–1935: Rupert Mounsey CR, previously assisted the Bishop of Truro less formally, since 1925; former Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak (1909–1916)<ref>Template:Who's Who</ref>
• 1938Template:Snd1949 (d.): John Holden, Vicar of St Budock (until 1944), Canon Residentiary of Truro Cathedral (1944–1947), Archdeacon of Cornwall (from 1947) and former Bishop of Kwangsi-Hunan, of Szechwan, and of Western Szechwan<ref>Template:Who's Who</ref>
• 1951Template:Snd1960 (ret.): John Wellington, Vicar of St Germans, Archdeacon of Bodmin (1953–1956) and former Bishop of Shantung<ref>Template:Who's Who</ref>
• 1962Template:Snd1973 (ret.): Bill Lash, Vicar of St  Clement (from 1963) and former Bishop in Bombay<ref>Template:Who's Who</ref>

Honorary assistant bishops — retired bishops taking on occasional duties voluntarily — have included:

• 1949Template:Snd1954 (d.): John Willis, former Bishop of Uganda and Assistant Bishop of Leicester<ref>Template:Church Times</ref>

Bibliography

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External links

• Diocese of Truro
• Truro Cathedral