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The Bishop of Ely is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire (with the exception of the Soke of Peterborough), together with a section of north-west Norfolk and has its episcopal see in the City of Ely, Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire, where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy ...
Pre- and post- Reformation bishops of the Diocese of Ely, with its seat at Ely Cathedral. Pages in category "Bishops of Ely" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total.
John was elected to the see of Ely about 24 January 1220. He was consecrated bishop on 8 March 1220 [3] at London by Langton. [2] He was enthroned at Ely Cathedral on 25 March 1220. [4] He owed his election to the papal legate Pandulf Verraccio. [5] While bishop, the pope once more named him to a canonization commission, this time in 1223 for ...
Walpole was Archdeacon of Ely by 6 February 1272. [1] Walpole was elected to the see of Norwich on 11 November 1288 and consecrated on 20 March 1289. [2] [3] Walpole was translated to the see of Ely on 5 June 1299. He died on 20 March 1302. [4] [5]
The diocesan Bishop of Ely (vacant) is assisted by a Bishop suffragan of Huntingdon (Dagmar Winter). There are also four retired bishops living in the diocese who are licensed as honorary assistant bishops: 2011–present: Lindsay Urwin. Former Area Bishop of Horsham. [4] At present, he is a parish priest in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne. [5]
These lists include bishops and archbishops who before the English Reformation were in communion with the See of Rome. (It does not include bishops and archbishops of the restored Roman Catholic hierarchy established by the Holy See from 1850 or their predecessors, the vicar apostolics, all titular bishops, who were appointed from 1688.)
Bishop John Moore was descended from the ancient family of De La Moor (later Moore), of Moore Hayes in the parish of Cullompton in Devonshire, England. He was born in Market Harborough in Leicestershire, the son of Thomas Moore (1621–1686), an ironmonger of Market Harborough, by his wife Elizabeth Wright, daughter of Edward Wright of Sutton in the parish of Broughton, Leicestershire. [2]
As bishop of Ely, Green had visitatorial powers at Trinity College, Cambridge, and intervened from 1729 in the quarrel between Richard Bentley, who was the Master, and the Fellows. The matter dragged out and went to the House of Lords , only terminating in Green's death.