Bishop of Leicester (suffragan)

The Bishop of Leicester was a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Peterborough in the Province of Canterbury.

A thousand years after it had last been used (for a diocesan Mercian bishop, 679–888) the episcopal title was resurrected as a suffragan see within the diocese of Peterborough. The suffragan Bishop of Leicester assisted the diocesan Bishop of Peterborough in overseeing the diocese.Leicester Cathedral: History . Retrieved on 22 November 2008.

In the modern Diocese of Leicester, there was a stipendiary (paid) Assistant Bishop of Leicester (1987–2017), until a new suffragan See of Loughborough was erected to replace the Assistant Bishop roleDiocese of Leicester — Synod supports creation of Suffragan Bishop (Accessed 19 December 2016)David Pocklington, "A new suffragan see for Loughborough" in Law & Religion UK, 30 November 2016, — see Bishop of Loughborough.

List of bishops Bishops suffragan of LeicesterFromUntilIncumbentNotes1888 1903 Francis Thicknesse Formerly Archdeacon of Northampton1903 1912 Lewis Clayton Canon of Peterborough; became Assistant Bishop of Peterborough1913 1927 Norman Lang Resigned the See, but effectively continued in post as an assistant bishop.In 1927, the suffragan see of Leicester ended with the creation of the diocesan see. Source(s):

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