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Bishop of Stockport

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The Bishop of Stockport is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Chester, in the Province of York, England.^[1] The title takes its name after the town of StockportinGreater Manchester.

List of bishops[edit]

Bishops of Stockport
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1949	1950	Frank Okell
1951	1965	David Saunders-Davies
1965	1984	Gordon Strutt
1984	1994	Frank Sargeant
1994	2000	Geoffrey Turner
2000	2007	Nigel Stock ^[2]	Translated to St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
2008	2014	Robert Atwell ^[3]
2015	2019	Libby Lane	First woman consecrated as a bishop in the Church of England^[4]^[5]
2021	present	Sam Corley	Consecrated 19 July 2021.^[6]
Source(s):^[1]

^ ^a ^b Crockford's Clerical Directory (100th ed.). London: Church House Publishing. 2007. pp. 948–949. ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0.

^ Queen approves new bishop Archived June 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 7 June 2008.

^ Suffragan See of Stockport Archived June 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 7 June 2008.

^ BBC News Libby Lane: First female Church of England bishop consecrated

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