Bishop Of Dunwich (Anglican)
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The Bishop of Dunwich is an episcopal title which was first used by an Anglo-Saxons bishop between the 7th and 9th centuries and is currently used by the
suffragan bishop A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led b ...
of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The title takes its name after
Dunwich Dunwich () is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is in the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape around north-east of London, south of Southwold and north of Leiston, on the North Sea coast. In the Anglo-Saxon ...
in the English county of
Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...
, which has now largely been lost to the sea. In 1934 the
Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, ...
revived title Bishop of Dunwich as a suffragan see; the See was erected under the
Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 The Suffragan Bishops Act 1534 ( 26 Hen. 8. c. 14) is an act of the Parliament of England that authorised the appointment of suffragan (i.e., assistant) bishops in England and Wales. The tradition of appointing suffragans named after a town in ...
by
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on 14 August 1934. The bishop's duties are to assist the diocesan
Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich The Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich is the Ordinary (officer), Ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in the Province of Canterbury. The See is vacant following the 2025 retirement of Martin Seeley; Graeme ...
in overseeing the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.


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Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings
{{Bishops of Dunwich Anglican suffragan bishops in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich