Bishop of Croydon

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The Bishop of Croydon is a suffragan Bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Southwark, which is within the Province of Canterbury, England. The present Bishop is the Rt Rev Nick Baines.^[1]

The Bishop of Croydon oversees the Episcopal Area of Croydon, which is made up of the Archdeaconries of Croydon and Reigate. The Archdeaconry of Reigate comprises the three Rural Deaneries of Caterham (9 parishes), Godstone (14 parishes) and Reigate (24 parishes), extending as far south as Gatwick Airport. The Archdeaconry of Croydon comprises the Rural Deaneries of Croydon Addington (9 parishes), Croydon Central (10 parishes), Croydon North (12 parishes), Croydon South (10 parishes) and Sutton (14 parishes).

The Episcopal area was historically in the Diocese of Canterbury, as the Archbishops of Canterbury lived at Croydon Palace and Addington Palace until the 19th century.

Baines was appointed in 2003 and installed on 11 May 2003. He took over from the Rt Rev Wilfred Wood KA, who had been Bishop of Croydon since 1985, the Church of England's first black bishop.

[edit] List of the Bishops of the Episcopal Area of Croydon, England

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
1904 to 1924	Henry Horace Pereira	(1845-1926)
1924 to 1930	no appointment
1930 to 1937	Edward Sydney Woods	(1877-1953). Translated to Lichfield
1937 to 1942	William Louis Anderson	(1892-1972). Translated to Portsmouth
1942 to 1947	Maurice Henry Harland	(1896-1986). Translated to Lincoln
1947 to 1956	Cuthbert Killick Norman Bardsley	(1907-1991). Translated to Coventry
1957 to 1977	John Taylor Hughes	(1908-2001)
1977 to 1985	Geoffrey Stuart Snell	(d.1988)
1985 to 2003	Wilfred Denniston Wood	(b.1936)
2003 to Present	Nick Baines	(b.1957)