The Bishop of Liverpool is the

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of the

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Diocese of Liverpool The diocese of Liverpool is a diocese of the Church of England in North West England. The diocese covers Merseyside north of the River Mersey, south-west Lancashire, western Greater Manchester, and part of northern Cheshire. Liverpool Cathedral ...

in the

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.''Crockford's Clerical Directory'', 100th edition, (2007), Church House Publishing. . The diocese stretches from

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in the north to

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in the south, and from the

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Wigan Wigan ( ) is a town in Greater Manchester, England. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its ad ...

in the east. Its see is in the City of Liverpool at the Cathedral Church of Christ. The bishop's residence is Bishop's Lodge,

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— east of Liverpool city centre. The office has existed since the founding of the diocese in 1880 under

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. The current Bishop of Liverpool,

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, is on leave pending his retirement following accusations of sexual misconduct. On 28 February 2025, it was announced that

Ruth Worsley Ruth Elizabeth Worsley, (born 1962) is a Church of England bishop. Since 2025, she has been Interim Bishop of Liverpool and Bishop of Wigan; she previously served as the Bishop of Taunton, a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Bath and Wells; ...

was to become ''Interim Bishop of Liverpool'' (i.e. interim diocesan bishop of the

) for a period of two years starting later in 2025; to facilitate this role, she was translated from Taunton to the vacant suffragan See of Wigan (becoming Bishop of Wigan) by

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issued on 4 April. She was then welcomed as Interim Bishop on 3 May 2025, initially as an

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, pending her translation to be Bishop suffragan of Wigan.

List of bishops

Assistant bishops

Among those who have served as Assistant Bishop of Liverpool were: *1968–1987 (ret.): William (Bill) Baker, lecturer at St Katharine's College until 1975 and former

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Those who have served in retirement as

s include: *19461958 (d.):

Herbert Gresford Jones Herbert Gresford Jones (7 April 187022 June 1958) was an Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Kampala (suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Uganda) and the Bishop of Warrington, the suffragan bishop of the Church of England's Diocese of Liverp ...

, canon residentiary (until 1956) and retired

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References

External links

Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings
{{Liverpool related articles

Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...

Bishops of Liverpool