Bishop of Lewes

The Bishop of Lewes is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester, in the Province of Canterbury, England.^[1][2] The title takes its name after Lewes, the county town of East Sussex. The bishops suffragan of Lewes were area bishops since the Chichester area scheme was erected in 1984 until 2013.^[3] The suffragan bishop has oversight of the archdeaconries of Hastings & Brighton and Lewes.

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The present bishop, since July 2020, is Will Hazlewood.

List of bishops

Bishops of Lewes
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1909	1914	Leonard Burrows	Translated to Sheffield
1914	1920	Herbert Jones
1920	1926	Henry Southwell
1926	1928	Thomas Cook
1928	1929	William Streatfeild [4]
1929	1946	Hugh Hordern
1946	1959	Geoffrey Warde
1959	1977	Lloyd Morrell
1977	1992	Peter Ball	First area bishop from 1984; translated to Gloucester. Pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault and one of misconduct in a public office while Bishop of Lewes[5]
1992	1996	Ian Cundy	Translated to Peterborough
1997	2012	Wallace Benn	Retired on 31 October 2012; last area bishop until his retirement
2014	2020	Richard Jackson	Translated to Hereford, 7 January 2020
2020	present	Will Hazlewood	Consecrated 15 July 2020 (afternoon)[6]
Source(s):[1]

References

1. Crockford's Clerical Directory (100th ed.). London: Church House Publishing. 2007. p. 947. ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0.
2. The Diocese of Chichester: The Bishops Archived July 4, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 7 June 2008.
3. "4: The Dioceses Commission, 1978–2002" (PDF). Church of England. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
4. Noel Streatfeild's Life. Retrieved on 7 June 2008.
5. "Former bishop Peter Ball admits sex offences". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
6. "Downing Street announces new Bishops for Horsham and Lewes - Diocese of Chichester". www.chichester.anglican.org. Archived from the original on 29 April 2020.

External links

• Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings

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