title: Bishop of Leicester (suffragan)
text: # 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.
  
  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 role — see Bishop of Loughborough.
  
  ## List of bishops
  
  Bishops suffragan of Leicester :
  
  | From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1888 | 1903 | Francis Thicknesse | Formerly Archdeacon of Northampton |
  | 1903 | 1912 | Lewis Clayton | Canon of Peterborough; became Assistant Bishop of Peterborough |
  | 1913 | 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. ||||
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