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The diocese covers the county of Nottinghamshire and a small area of South Yorkshire. The see is in the town of Southwell where the seat is located at the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary (also known as Southwell Minster), which was elevated to cathedral status in 1884.

The diocese was created in 1884 under Queen Victoria. The current bishop is the Right Reverend George Henry Cassidy, the 10th Bishop of Southwell, who signs George Southwell.

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Southwell, England

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
4 May 1884 to ????	George Ridding	Headmaster of St Mary's College, Winchester
???? to 1941
1941 to 1964	Frank Russell Barry, DSO, DD
1964 to 1970	Gordon David Savage, MA
1970 to 1985	John Denis Wakeling	Retired
1985 to 1988	Michael Humphrey Dickens Whinney
1988 to 1999	Patrick Burnet Harris
1999 to present	George Henry Cassidy	Enthroned 11 September 1999


Anglican Hierarchy in Great Britain
The Church of England
Provinces	Dioceses
Canterbury	Bath & Wells \| Birmingham \| Bristol \| Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich \| Chelmsford \| Chichester \| Coventry \| Derby \| Ely \| Exeter \| Gibraltar in Europe \| Gloucester \| Guildford \| Hereford \| Leicester \| Lichfield \| Lincoln \| London \| Norwich \| Oxford \| Peterborough \| Portsmouth \| Rochester \| Saint Albans \| Salisbury \| Southwark \| Truro \| Winchester \| Worcester
York	Blackburn \| Bradford \| Carlisle \| Chester \| Durham \| Liverpool \| Manchester \| Newcastle \| Ripon and Leeds \| Sheffield \| Sodor & Man \| Southwell \| Wakefield
The Church in Wales
Wales	Bangor \| Llandaff \| Monmouth \| Saint Asaph \| Saint David's \| Swansea & Brecon
The Scottish Episcopal Church
Primus	Aberdeen and Orkney \| Argyll & the Isles \| Brechin \| Edinburgh \| Glasgow & Galloway \| Moray, Ross & Caithness \| Saint Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane
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	The Bishop of Derby is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Derby in the Province of Canterbury.
	The diocese was formed from part of the Diocese of Southwell in 1927 under King George V.
	Before this time however there had been two Suffragan bishops of Derby whilst the bishopric was still within the Diocese of Southwell.

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	The House of Bishops does not regard entering into a civil partnership as intrinsically incompatible with holy orders, provided the person concerned is willing to give assurances to his or her bishop that the relationship is consistent with the standards for the clergy set out in Issues in Human Sexuality.
	Bishop Tom Wright's work The Resurrection of the Son of God - Christian Origins and the Question of God (SPCK) was selected by a distinguished panel of six judges as 'the most promising theological work of the current age' from a short list of five.
	But their bishop urged them not to do so; they stayed with the people whom God had given them to care for, and over three hundred mission workers were killed in cold blood during the invasion.

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List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Southwell, England

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