Press release from the Prime Minister’s Office. There are more details on the websites of the dioceses of Leeds and Southwark.
Appointment of Suffragan Bishop of Ripon: 27 April 2023
The King has approved the nomination of The Reverend Canon Anna Eltringham to the Suffragan See of Ripon in the Diocese of Leeds.
From: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street
Published 27 April 2023
The King has approved the nomination of The Reverend Canon Anna Eltringham, KHC, Team Rector of Oxted Team Ministry, in the Diocese of Southwark, to the Suffragan See of Ripon, in the Diocese of Leeds, in succession to The Right Reverend Dr Helen-Ann Hartley following her appointment as Bishop of Newcastle.
Anna was educated at St John’s College, Durham and trained for ministry at the South East Institute of Theological Education. She served her title at Holy Innocents, South Norwood, in the Diocese of Southwark, and was ordained priest in 2009.
Anna was appointed Team Vicar, Oxted Team Ministry, also in the Diocese of Southwark, in 2014 and was appointed to her current role as Team Rector in 2019.
Additionally, Anna has served as Dean of Women’s Ministry since 2017 and has been an Honorary Chaplain to the Monarch and Honorary Canon at Southwark Cathedral since 2020.
It is very good to see the gender balance improved in the episcopal team in the Diocese of Leeds, with now two women bishops. There have been 16 nominations to suffragan sees during the last two years, excluding Beverley, Ebbsfleet, and Oswestry. Of these, nine are women, and I believe five of the 16 would identify as being BAME/GMH. It’s slightly hard to keep the score, but I think Anna Eltringham will be the 34th woman to be consecrated in the Church of England. However, only three women have been nominated directly to a diocesan bishopric, and only four suffagans… Read more »
So agree, Anthony. Thanks for your analysis.
A very visible moment of opportunity for everyone to see bishops in action will be the coronation. The order of service is due to be published on Sunday, but until then I think that all we know for sure about senor clergy in action at the event is the Archbishop of Canterbury and Dean of Westminster. Today it has been announced that the former Bishop of London and present Bishop of Dover will carry parts of the regalia in procession, the full list of participants having been at least partly chosen to represent diversity. A much more visible statement about… Read more »
A lot of information here about participants at the forthcoming Coronation, but I equally cannot trace who were the supporting bishops for Queen Alexandra, crowned and anointed by the Archbishop of York. There is a painting of this in the Royal Collection, with two bishops in attendance, but they are not identified in the descriptive text. I haven’t researched Queen Mary, but suspect I will be no more successful than you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_involved_in_coronations_of_the_British_monarch Noteworthy that there is, as yet, no bishop listed as Bearer of the Chalice, a role of the Bishop of Winchester at all of the four Coronations of… Read more »
Queen Mary in 1911 was supported by the Bishops of Peterborough and Oxford. My source for this is a little book “The Ceremonies to be Observed at the Royal Coronation etc”, published by order of the Duke of Norfolk, and which contains the names or offices of everyone involved. In 1911 the Bishop of Peterborough was Edward Carr Glyn, and the Bishop of Oxford was Francis Paget (who died 7 weeks later apparently).
And in 1902 Queen Alexandra was supported by Paget, then bishop of Oxford, and by John Sheepshanks, bishop of Norwich. I have this from The Times, which in 1902 (though not in 1911) listed every member of the coronation procession.
I looked up ‘GMH’ and find it stands for ‘gives me hope’. Which sounds delightfully apt.
On the other hand, Google tells me ‘KHC’ stands for ‘Kraft Heinz Co.’, which sounds unlikely. ‘King’s Household Chaplain,’ maybe? Which raises the question, does the king get to choose his own chaplains, or does he simply retain his mother’s?
Honorary Chaplain to the King.
King’s Honorary Chaplain?
This former long-standing resident of Oxted and its environs notes with pleasure that the last two rectors have been appointed to the bench. This compensates, at least to some extent, for the imprisonment in 1999 of a former rector for sexual offences against minors (though he was cleared of other charges in 2017).
Interesting that quite a number of bishops’ priestly formation was in non residential training settings. Those numbers will only increase of course. A few years ago who would have thought that CofE bishops could emerge from night schools?
George Carey did a stint at night school earlier in his career
You will find that what we provide in what we prefer to call part residential training is a bit more than night school!
‘night schools’ – intended as ironic and amusing no doubt, but implicitly patronising towards all involved.
There is always a danger in making assumptions Mr Kettle. I left school at 16 and acquired a business studies qualification (BTEC) at night school and then later also at night school an A level in English Literature. These night school qualifications allowed me to go to Durham University as a mature student to read Theology. That said I think that there are considerable benefits for a priest’s formation in training residentially, but recognise that there are not the funds available to let everyone do so. As I know only too well the CofE is riddled with snootiness but I… Read more »
A survey of the 34 women who have been, or are soon to be, consecrated bishop reveals that 12 trained for ordination on a course, rather than at a residential college, five of whom attended SEITE, now St Augustine’s. Two trained outside the Church of England, one at a seminary in the Diocese in Europe, and one in New Zealand. Of the 20 others, the colleges they attended are Cranmer (5), Trinity Bristol (5), Wycliffe (4), St John’s Nottingham (3), Westcott (2), and Queen’s Birmingham (1). I’m not sure much can be drawn from this analysis, especially as there are… Read more »
Many thanks for this. Time was when Cuddesdon was the seminary with about the largest roster of bishops, but over the last 30 years that former influence appears to have evaporated almost completely in the face of about 5 or so powerful evangelical institutions. The declining influence of Cuddesdon would appear to be a barometer of the wider fall of liberal catholicism within the Church of England. The retreat of what remains of the Anglo-Catholic theological colleges seems to be nearing its endgame: I note, for example, from a 2021 review that there may be question marks over the future… Read more »