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The Bishop's residence is Bishop's House, Chester. Cheshire previously held a bishopric from 1075 when the seat was at the collegiate church of St John the Baptist until 1102. The present diocese was formed in 1541 under King Henry VIII. Mark Tanner's election as Bishop of Chester was confirmed on 15 July 2020. [1] [2]
Mark Simon Austin Tanner (born November 1970) is a British Anglican bishop and academic. Since 2020, he has been the Bishop of Chester; he previously served as Bishop of Berwick, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Newcastle since his 2016 consecration as bishop; and from August 2011 until his consecration, he was the Warden of Cranmer Hall, Durham, a Church of England theological college.
Memorial to William Jacobson in Chester Cathedral Jacobson's shield of arms: Argent a chevron Gules between three trefoils slipped Sable on a chief also Sable an estoile Silver. [1] William Jacobson (18 July 1803 – 13 July 1884) was Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University (1848–1865) and Bishop of Chester (1865–1884).
The Bishop of Chester is assisted by two suffragan bishops, the Bishop of Stockport and the Bishop of Birkenhead. [17] The suffragan See of Stockport was created in 1949 and was the sole suffragan bishopric in the diocese until the See of Birkenhead was created in 1965.
Arms: Sable three horses' heads couped Argent. [1]George Lloyd (1560– 1 August 1615) [2] was born in Wales, and became Bishop of Sodor and Man, then Bishop of Chester.He is remembered for Bishop Lloyd's House in Chester, which he had built in the years before his death, and which is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
Nigel of Cotentin (fl.c. 1071/80), from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, of Halton Castle in Cheshire (situated on the River Mersey, 13 miles (21 km) north-east of Chester Castle), is believed to have been the first Constable of Chester and was the 1st Baron of Halton, one of the feudal baronies of the County Palatine of Chester established by Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester. [2]
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He served as Bishop of Chester from 1689 to 1707. He was born at Hemel Hempstead, [2] graduated M.A. at Trinity College, Oxford in 1656, and was Fellow there in 1657. [3] He contributed to the royalist poetry anthology Britannia Rediviva in 1660, writing in Latin. [4] He became Dean of St Asaph in 1673. [5]