Bishop of Bermuda

The Bishop of Bermuda is an episcopal title given to the ordinary of the Anglican Church of Bermuda,[1] one of six extra-provincial Anglican churches within the Church of England overseen by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

From the date of official colonisation in 1612 (three years after Bermuda had been settled by the wreck of the Sea Venture, the survivors of which included the Reverend Richard Buck, who carried out the first Church of England services in Bermuda) until 1825, the nine parishes of the Church of England in Bermuda had rarely enough ministers, and there was no local Bishop, and indeed no colonial bishop, until Charles Inglis became the first Bishop of the Diocese of Nova Scotia (covering present-day New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec) in 1787.

From 1825 to 1839, Bermuda was attached to the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

[2] Although both Bermuda and Newfoundland were parts of British North America, they were left out of the 1867 Confederation of Canada, when the other North American colonies formed the Dominion of Canada.

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