The Bishop of Loughborough is an episcopal title used by the sole suffragan bishop of the

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Diocese of Leicester The Diocese of Leicester is a Church of England diocese based in Leicester and including the current county of Leicestershire. The cathedral is Leicester Cathedral, where the Bishop of Leicester has his episcopal chair. The diocese is divided int ...

in the Province of Canterbury,

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.Anglican Communion – Leicester
/ref> From 1987 to 2017, the Assistant Bishop of Leicester was an episcopal title used by the sole

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iary assistant bishop (effectively suffragan bishop) of the Diocese of Leicester. The title took its name as the bishop who assisted the diocesan

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. The role was created following the 1986 refusal of a request to create a suffragan bishop for the diocese, and was filled from then only with ''

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'' funding arrangements for four bishops already in episcopal orders. Boyle was the only incumbent to serve on a full-time basis. On 26 November 2016, Leicester Diocesan Synod approved a proposal to replace the Assistant Bishop post with a new suffragan bishop role of Bishop suffragan of Loughborough, following Boyle's retirement in 2017, with the expectation that this could be completed by the end of that year.Diocese of Leicester – Synod supports creation of Suffragan Bishop
(Accessed 19 December 2016) The proposal was accepted by

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in February 2017 and the See was erected by Order of the Privy Council on 12 April 2017.Privy Council Office – Orders, 12 April 2017
(Accessed 27 April 2017) The bishop's residence is Bishop's House, Rothley, in Charnwood.

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Other assistant bishops

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