Press release from 10 Downing Street. (The link mistakenly says “suffragan bishop”; if this is corrected the link may break.) Further details are on the Truro diocesan website and also on the Winchester site.
The King has approved the nomination of The Right Reverend David Williams, Suffragan Bishop of Basingstoke, for election as Bishop of Truro.
Appointment of Bishop of Truro: 11 December 2024
From: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street
Published 11 December 2024The King has approved the nomination of The Right Reverend David Williams, Suffragan Bishop of Basingstoke, for election as Bishop of Truro, in succession to the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen, following his translation to the See of Winchester.
Background
David was educated at Bristol University and trained for ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He served his title at All Saints Ecclesall, in the Diocese of Sheffield, and was ordained Priest in 1990. He served as Vicar of Christ Church, Dore, from 1992 and additionally as Area Dean of Ecclesall Deanery from 1997. David was appointed Vicar of Christ Church, in the Diocese of Winchester, in 2002. In 2014 David took up his current role as Bishop of Basingstoke, also in the Diocese of Winchester.
OK…the last appointment was a Catholic, to be salted away looking after the ‘Society’ fringe…well out of the way.
But another diocesan comes up and ….mirabile dictu….another definite Evangelical.
Sorry to upset Fr Chesterton and others but this is becoming very depressing.
The long of Welby aka HTB still casts shadows!
This is an excellent appointment. I knew David for a number of years and he was a good pastor and – as he says – he is at heart a parish priest and that is how he has exercised episcopal ministry. You can be a fine bishop and an evangelical! They are not mutually exclusive!
Of course they’re not exclusive, but so many are coming from one camp which is worrying.