The Bishop of Willesden 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

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 Diocese of London

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, in the Province of Canterbury

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, England

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. The title takes its name after Willesden

Willesden

Willesden is an area in North West London which forms part of the London Borough of Brent. It is situated 5 miles north west of Charing Cross...

, an area of the London Borough of Brent

London Borough of Brent

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The post was created in 1911, and was the fourth suffragan bishopric in the diocese. The new bishop was given oversight of four rural dean

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eries: Hampstead

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, Hornsey

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, St Pancras

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 and Willesden previously the responsibility of the Bishop of Islington

Bishop of Islington

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The bishop now has responsibility for the Willesden Episcopal Area, comprising four deaneries

Deanery

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: Brent, Ealing, Harrow and Hillingdon.

List of the Bishops of Willesden

No.	Incumbent	From	Until	Notes
1	William Perrin William Perrin (bishop) William Willcox Perrin was an Anglican bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Perrin was born on 11 August 1848 and uneducated . Ordained in 1870, he began his ministry with a curacy at St Mary's Southampton and was then vicar of St Luke’s in the same city before his ordination to the...	1911	1929
2	Guy Smith Guy Smith (bishop) Guy Vernon Smith MC was an Anglican bishop in the mid 20th century.Smith was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Ordained in 1907 he began his ministry with a curacy at Romford and was then chaplain to Arthur Winnington-Ingram, the Bishop of London, before World War I service as a...	1929	1940	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 Leicester Bishop of Leicester The Bishop of Leicester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Leicester in the Province of Canterbury.The first bishops of Leicester were originally prelates who administered an Anglo-Saxon diocese between the 7th and 9th centuries...
3	Henry Campbell Henry Campbell Henry Colville Montgomery Campbell MC KCVO PC was a Church of England clergyman and Bishop of London from 1956–1961.-Early life and career:...	1940	1942	Translated to Kensington Bishop of Kensington The Bishop of Kensington is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London, in the Province of Canterbury, England...
4	Edward Jones	1942	1950	Translated to St Albans Bishop of St Albans The Bishop of St Albans is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of St Albans in the Province of Canterbury. The bishop is supported in his work by two suffragan bishops, the Bishop of Hertford and the Bishop of Bedford, and three archdeacons....
5	Gerald Ellison Gerald Ellison Gerald Ellison KCVO PC was an Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Chester from 1955 to 1973 and the Bishop of London from 1973 to 1981.-Early life and career:...	1950	1955	Translated to Chester Bishop of Chester The Bishop of Chester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chester in the Province of York.The diocese expands across most of the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, including the Wirral Peninsula and has its see in the City of Chester where the seat is located at the Cathedral...
6	George Ingle	1955	1964	Formerly Bishop of Fulham Bishop of Fulham The Bishop of Fulham is a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of London in the Church of England. The bishopric is named after Fulham, an area of south-west London....
7	Graham Leonard Graham Leonard Graham Douglas Leonard KCVO was a British priest. His principal ministry was as a bishop of the Church of England but, after his retirement as the Bishop of London, he became a Roman Catholic, becoming the most senior Anglican cleric to do so since the English Reformation...	1964	1973	Translated to Truro Bishop of Truro The Bishop of Truro is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Truro in the Province of Canterbury.The present diocese covers the county of Cornwall and it is one of the most recently created dioceses of the Church of England...
8	Hewlett Thompson	1974	1985	Translated to Exeter Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Exeter is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. The incumbent usually signs his name as Exon or incorporates this in his signature....
9	Thomas Butler	1985	1991	Translated to Leicester Bishop of Leicester The Bishop of Leicester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Leicester in the Province of Canterbury.The first bishops of Leicester were originally prelates who administered an Anglo-Saxon diocese between the 7th and 9th centuries...
10	Graham Dow Graham Dow Geoffrey Graham Dow was the Anglican Bishop of Carlisle from 2000-2009, the 66th holder of the office. He is a well-known Evangelical.-Early life:...	1992	2000	Translated to Carlisle Bishop of Carlisle The Bishop of Carlisle is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Carlisle in the Province of York.The diocese covers the County of Cumbria except for Alston Moor and the former Sedbergh Rural District...
11	Pete Broadbent	2001	present	Effectively suspended 23 November 2010–10 January 2011.

External links

• Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings

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