Bishop of St Germans

The Bishop of St Germans is an episcopal title which was used by Anglo Saxon Bishops of Cornwall and currently in use in the Church of England and in the Roman Catholic Church.

The title is used by suffragan bishops of the Church of England, and is currently used by a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Truro. In the Roman Catholic Church, Sanctus Germanus is a titular see, used as the title for a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.

The title takes its name after St Germans, a large village in Cornwall. In the 10th and 11th centuries, St Germans Priory was effectively the seat for the bishopric of Cornwall. In 1043, dioceses of Cornwall and Crediton merged under one bishop, and eventually they moved to Exeter in 1050.

List of Anglican bishops

Bishops of St Germans
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1905	1918	John Cornish
1918	1974	in abeyance
1974	1979	Richard Rutt	Translated to Leicester
1979	1985	Br Michael (Fisher) SSF
1985	1992	Richard Llewellin	Translated to Dover
1993	1999	Graham James	Translated to Norwich
2000	2011	Roy Screech
2013	present	Chris Goldsmith	Consecrated 14 May, installed 19 May 2013.
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List of Catholic bishops

Bishops of Sanctus Germanus
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
12 Feb 1970	10 Dec 1970	Pierre-Marie Théas	Resigned
2 Feb 1972	31 Oct 1974	James Joseph McGuinness	Succeeded to the See of Nottingham, of which he was Bishop Coadjutor
24 Jan 1976	27 Apr 2013	Joseph Peter O’Connell	Died
31 Mar 2014	present	Nicholas Gilbert Hudson	Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster
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External links

• Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings