NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bishop of Blackburn

The diocese covers much of the county of Lancashire and has its see in the City of Blackburn, where the seat of the diocese is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary.

The office has been in existence since the foundation of the see from part of the Diocese of Manchester in 1926 under King George V. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Dr Nicholas Stewart Reade, BA, the 8th Bishop of Blackburn, who signs Nicholas Blackburn.

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Blackburn, England

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
1927 to 1942	Percy Mark Herbert
1942 to 1954	Wilfred Marcus Askwith, DD	Translated to Gloucester
1954 to 1960	Walter Hubert Baddeley
1960 to 1971	Charles Claxton
1972 to 1981	Robert Martineau
1982 to 1989	David Stewart Cross
1989 to 2003	Alan David Chesters, MA	Resigned
2003 to present	Dr Nicholas Stewart Reade, BA	Installed 27 March 2004


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York	Blackburn \| Bradford \| Carlisle \| Chester \| Durham \| Liverpool \| Manchester \| Newcastle \| Ripon and Leeds \| Sheffield \| Sodor & Man \| Southwell \| Wakefield
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Primus	Aberdeen and Orkney \| Argyll & the Isles \| Brechin \| Edinburgh \| Glasgow & Galloway \| Moray, Ross & Caithness \| Saint Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane
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List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Blackburn, England

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