The Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway is the

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(diocesan bishop) of the

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Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway The Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway is one of the seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church. It covers Dumfries and Galloway, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire (including Glasgow), Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and west Stirlingshire (south of the ...

Brief history

When the dioceses of Glasgow and Galloway were combined in 1837, Michael Russell, the then

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became the first bishop of the combined

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. Initially there were only three or four congregations in the south west of Scotland. Until the establishment of St Mary's Church in Great Western Road as the cathedral of the diocese, the bishops were also incumbents of individual congregations - Michael Russell at Leith, Walter Trower at St Mary's Church in Glasgow and William Wilson at Ayr. The episcopate of William Harrison was specially notable for the exceptional expansion of the church in the south west of Scotland. Bishop Reid was translated to the

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. His successor, Bishop Darbyshire, was also translated becoming the Archbishop of Cape Town in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the

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). Bishop Rawcliffe was already a bishop when he came to the diocese having previously been consecrated at the first Bishop of the New Hebrides in the

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between 1974 and 1980.

Bishops of the united diocese

The bishops of the combined See of Glasgow and Galloway are listed on two plaques on the south wall of the chancel in St Mary's Cathedral. As the first plaque was filled recording the episcopate of Bishop Rawcliffe, a second plaque was installed following the enthronement of Bishop Taylor. A gallery of portraits of the past bishops is displayed in the sacristy corridor in the cathedral. * 1837–1848: Michael Russell * 1848–1859:

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* 1859–1888; William Wilson * 1888–1903: William Harrison * 1904–1921:

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* 1921–1931: Edward Reid * 1931–1938:

Russell Darbyshire John Russell Darbyshire (12 October 1880 – 30 June 1948) was an Anglican bishop. Life and ministry He was born in Birkenhead in Cheshire in 1880, the son of Edward and Matilda Darbyshire, and educated at Dulwich College and Emmanuel College, ...

* 1938–1952:

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( Primus 1946–1952) * 1952–1974:

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* 1981–1991:

Derek Rawcliffe Derek Alec Rawcliffe OBE (8 July 1921 – 1 February 2011) was an English Anglican bishop and author. He served as the Bishop of the New Hebrides and the Scottish Episcopal Church's Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway. Life and ministry Rawcliffe ...

* 1991–1998:

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* 1998–2009:

Idris Jones Idris Jones (born 2 April 1943) is a retired Anglican bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church. He was the Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway from 1998 to 2009 and was also Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 2006 to 2009. Early life and e ...

( Primus 2006–2009) * 2010–2018: Gregor Duncan * 2020–present: Kevin Pearson

References

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