Parish of the Falkland Islands

After his tenure, the history of the Falkland Islands diocese largely followed the waxing and waning fortunes of the South American Missionary Society (SAMS).

Financial constraints caused him to consolidate, becoming Bishop of Argentina and Eastern South America while retaining oversight of the Falkland Islands, which technically was a vacant see until 1946.

The West Coast Diocese of Chile, Bolivia and Peru came under Kenneth Howell, a former South American Missionary Society (SAMS) missionary, and Cyril Tucker was consecrated under two separate mandates, one as Bishop of Argentina and Eastern South America, and the other as Bishop of the Falkland Islands.

[3][4] In 1978, Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, assumed personal responsibility for the Falkland Islands, with episcopal oversight exercised by his commissary.

The first Episcopal Commissary for the Falkland Islands was Richard Cutts in Buenos Aires, an Anglo-Argentine and former missionary in Africa, who had succeeded Cyril Tucker in 1975.

The post was held successively by Harry Bagnall (1979–1986),[5] John Murphy (1987-1991),[6] Stephen Palmer (1991–1996),[7] Alistair McHaffie (1998–2003),[8] Paul Sweeting (2003–2006),[9] Richard Hines (2007–2014),[10] Canon David Roper (2014–2015),[11] Nicholas Mercer (2017-2018),[12] Ian Faulds (2018-2022),[13] Hayley Argles-Grant (2023-).