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Bishop of Ramsbury
The
Bishop of Ramsbury
is an
episcopal
title used by a
suffragan bishop
of the
Church of England
Diocese of Salisbury
, in the
Province of Canterbury
,
England
. The title takes its name after the town of
Ramsbury
in
Wiltshire
, and was first used between the 10th and 11th centuries by the
Anglo-Saxon
Bishops of Ramsbury. From the establishment of the Salisbury area scheme in 1981 until its abolition in 2009, the bishops suffragan of Ramsbury were
area bishops
.
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