HC Deb 21 January 1997 vol 288 cc576-8W
Mr. William Powell

To ask the right hon. Member for Selby, representing the Church Commissioners if he will list(a) those suffragan bishops for whose salaries the commissioners are responsible, with their dates of appointments, (b) such suffragan sees as are currently vacant and (c) those assistant bishops for whose salaries the commissioners are responsible. [11071]

Mr. Alison

The suffragan and full-time assistant bishops whose stipends the commissioners are empowered to pay and their dates of appointment are as follows:

See Suffragan see Bishop's name Date of appointment
Birmingham Aston John Austin 3 September 1992
Blackburn Burnley Martyn Jarrett 2 February 1994
Lancaster John Nicholls 25 April 1990
Bristol Swindon Michael Doe 29 September 1994
Canterbury Dover Richard Llewellin 9 October 1992
Maidstone Gavin Reid 9 October 1992
Ebbsfleet John Richards 29 April 1994
Richborough Edwin Barnes 20 July 1995
Carlisle Penrith Richard Garrard 21 September 1994
Chelmsford Barking Roger Sainsbury 17 January 1991
Colchester Edward Holland 5 January 1995
Bradwell Laurie Green 23 February 1993
Chester Birkenhead Michael Langrish 2 March 1993
Stockport Geoffrey Turner 21 September 1994
Chichester Horsham Lindsay Urwin 30 November 1993
Coventry Warwick Anthony Priddis 3 July 1996
Derby Repton Henry Richmond 30 January 1986
Durham Jarrow Alan Smithson 21 September 1990
Ely Huntingdon John Flack 8 January 1997
Exeter Crediton Richard Hawkings 2 July 1996
Plymouth John Garton 3 July 1996
Glucester Tewkesbury John Went 25 January 1996
Gildford Dorking Ian Brackley 25 January 1996
Hereford Ludlow John Saxbee 29 April 1994
Lichfield Shrewsbury David Hallatt 22 July 1994
Stafford Christopher Hill 7 March 1996
Wolverhampton Michael Bourke 29 September 1993
Lincoln Grantham William Ind 23 October 1987
Grimsby David Tustin 25 January 1979
Liverpool Warrington John Packer 13 November 1996
London Fulham John Broadbent 25 September 1996
Kensington Michael Colclough 25 September 1996
Stepney John Sentamu 25 September 1996
Willesden Graham Dow 22 May 1992
Edmonton Brian Masters 20 December 1984
Manchester Hulme Colin Scott 13 September 1984
Middleton Stephen Venner 2 February 1994
Bolton David Bonser 13 September 1991
Newcastle Assistant Bishop Kenneth Gill 1 September 1980
Norwich Lynn David Conner 2 February 1994
Thetford Hugo de Waal 17 January 1992
Oxford Buckingham Colin Bennetts 29 April 1994
Dorchester Anthony Russell 2 February 1988

1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
Diocesan bishops 482,087 706,433 494,322 469,947 645,155 660,897 314,192 480,653 732,103 678,457
Suffragan and full-time assistant bishops 136,160 427,608 204,161 684,680 591,468 80,323 2,557 3,815 31,113 27,202

No new moneys were made available for grants for the housing of suffragan and full-time assistant bishops from 1991.

See Suffragan see Bishop's name Date of appointment
Peterborough Brixworth Paul Barber 25 January 1989
Ripon Knaresborough Malcolm Menin 2 December 1986
Rochester Tonbridge Brian Smith 2 November 1993
St. Albans Bedford John Richardson 23 February 1994
Hertford Robin Smith 25 January 1990
St. Edmunds and Ipswich Dunwich Tim Stevens 17 November 1995
Salisbury Ramsbury Peter Vaughan 21 April 1989
Sherborne John Kirkham 1 December 1976
Sheffield Doncaster Michael Gear 2 March 1993
Southwark Kingston Martin Wharton 3 November 1992
Woolwich Colin Buchanan 1 December 1996
Croydon Wilfred Wood 25 July 1985
Southwell Sherwood Alan Morgan 1 September 1989
Truro St. Germans Graham James 23 February 1993
Wakefield Pontefract John Finney 14 May 1993
Winchester Basingstoke Geoffrey Rowell 2 February 1994
Southampton Jonathan Gledhill 20 November 1996
Worcester Dudley Rupert Hoare 29 September 1993
York Hull James Jones 2 November 1994
Selby Humphrey Taylor 1 September 1991
Whitby Gordon Bates 9 June 1983
Beverley John Gaisford 7 March 1994
Europe in Europe Henry Scriven 9 February 1995

The following suffragan sees are currently vacant, one of which will be filled by the person named:

See Suffragan See Bishop's name
Bath and Wells Taunton Not yet announced
Chichester Lewes Not yet announced
Oxford Reading Canon Dominic Walker