Bishop of Colchester

The Bishop of Colchester is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Chelmsford, in the Province of Canterbury, England.^[1]

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The current bishop is Roger Morris, former Archdeacon of Worcester, who was consecrated as the Bishop of Colchester on 25 July 2014 at St Paul's Cathedral.^[2]

The title takes its name after the town of Colchester in Essex, and was first created under the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534.^[3] The suffragan bishops have been under the jurisdiction of a number of different dioceses. They were originally appointed for the Diocese of London, but changed in 1845 for the Diocese of Rochester and again in 1877 for the Diocese of St Albans. With the creation of the Diocese of Chelmsford in 1914, the suffragan bishops now come under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Chelmsford.^[1] The bishops suffragan of Colchester have been area bishops since the Chelmsford area scheme was erected in 1983.^[4]

List of bishops

Bishops of Colchester
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1536	1541	William More	Consecrated on 22 October 1536; died in 1541.
1541	1592	in abeyance
1592	1608	John Sterne	Consecrated on 12 November 1592; died in 1608.
1608	1882	in abeyance
1882	1894	Alfred Blomfield
1894	1909	Henry Johnson
1909	1922	Robert Whitcombe
1922	1933	Thomas Chapman
1933	1946	Charles Ridsdale
1946	1966	Dudley Narborough
1966	1988	Roderic Coote	Formerly Bishop of Fulham; first area bishop from 1983
1988	1995	Michael Vickers
1995	2001	Edward Holland	Formerly Suffragan Bishop in Europe
2001	2013	Christopher Morgan	[5]
25 July 2014	present	Roger Morris	Previously Archdeacon of Worcester.[2]
Source(s):[1][3]