The Bishop of Penrith is an episcopal title named after the town of Penrith in Cumbria.
The title was first mentioned "as Pereth" in the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534 (alongside a see for Penreth – now called Penrydd – in Pembrokeshire). It was first used for the Diocese of Ripon in 1888, but the incumbent's episcopal title was transferred to Richmond by Royal Warrant in 1889. Since 1939, the Bishop of Penrith has been a suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Carlisle assisting the diocesan Bishop of Carlisle in overseeing the diocese.
| Bishops of Penrith | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | Until | Incumbent | Notes | |
| 1534 | 1888 | in abeyance | Crockfords shows John Bird as Bishop 1537-39 but this is almost certainly incorrect due to the misidentification of his See of Penreth with Penrith. John Byrde was consecrated for Dio.Llandaff (possibly for Skenfrith in Monmouthshire) and in 1539 was translated to Bangor. | |
| 1888 | 1889 | John Pulleine | Appointed for the diocese of Ripon. His suffragan title was changed by Royal Warrant to Richmond in 1889. | |
| 1889 | 1939 | in abeyance | ||
| 1939 | 1944 | Grandage Powell | ||
| 1944 | 1959 | Herbert Turner | ||
| 1959 | 1966 | Cyril Bulley | ||
| 1967 | 1970 | Reginald Foskett | ||
| 1970 | 1979 | Edward Pugh | ||
| 1979 | 1994 | George Hacker | ||
| 1994 | 2002 | Richard Garrard | ||
| 2002 | 2009 | James Newcome | Translated to Carlisle on 10 October 2009.[1] [2] [3] | |
| 2009 | 2011 | no appointment | ||
| 2011 | 2018 | Robert Freeman | Consecrated on 28 October 2011;[4] retired "Easter" 2018.[5] | |
| 2019 | 2021 | Emma Ineson | Consecrated on 27 February 2019;[6] resigned See to become "Bishop to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York" on 1 June 2021.[7] | |
| 2022 | present | Rob Saner-Haigh | Consecrated 15 July 2022.[8] | |
| Source(s):[9] | ||||
D.H.Marston: "The Bishopric of Barrow-in-Furness" (2nd Edition, 2017)