The Bishop of Aston is an episcopal

Episcopal polity

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 title used by a suffragan bishop

Suffragan bishop

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 of the Church of England

Church of England

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 Diocese of Birmingham

Anglican Diocese of Birmingham

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, in the Province of Canterbury

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, England

England

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. The title takes its name after Aston

Aston

Aston is an area of the City of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Lying to the north-east of the Birmingham city centre, Aston constitutes an electoral ward within the council constituency of Ladywood.-History:...

, an area of the City of Birmingham. On 28 October 2008 the Rt Revd Andrew Watson was consecrated as the new Bishop of Aston in St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral

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, and subsequently he and his family were installed in Bishop's Lodge, Sutton Coldfield

Sutton Coldfield

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List of Bishops of Aston

No.	Incumbent	From	Until	Notes
1	Clement Parker	1954	1961	Translated Translation (ecclesiastical) Translation is the technical term when a Bishop is transferred from one diocese to another.This can be* From Suffragan Bishop status to Diocesan Bishop*From Coadjutor bishop to Diocesan Bishop*From one country's Episcopate to another...  to Bradford Bishop of Bradford The Bishop of Bradford is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Bradford, in the Province of YorkThe diocese covers the extreme west of Yorkshire, and has its see in the city of Bradford where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter.The Bishop's residence is...
2	David Porter	1962	1972
3	Mark Green Mark Green (bishop) Mark Green MC was the suffragan Bishop of Aston from 1972 to 1982. He was born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Rossall School and Lincoln College, Oxford. He studied for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon before a curacy at St Catherine’s Gloucester...	1972	1982
4	Michael Whinney	1982	1985	Translated to Southwell
5	Colin Buchanan	1985	1989	Translated to Woolwich Bishop of Woolwich The Bishop of Woolwich is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Southwark, in the Province of Canterbury, England....
–	no appointment	1989	1992
6	John Austin John Austin (bishop) John Michael Austin was the Bishop of Aston from 1992 to 2005, filling a post which had been vacant since the previous incumbent Colin Ogilvie Buchanan resigned in 1989. After him the post remained vacant for 3 years until the Diocese announced the appointment of Andrew J Watson to fill the...	1992	2005
–	no appointment	2005	2008
7	Andrew Watson	2008	present

External links

• Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings

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