Peter Hancock

Who is Peter Hancock?

The Right Reverend Peter Hancock is the Bishop of Bath and Wells in the Church of England.

Hancock was consecrated as a bishop at St Paul's Cathedral on 21 September 2010 and welcomed as Bishop of Basingstoke at Winchester Cathedral on 2 October 2010. On 10 December 2013, it was announced that Hancock would become Bishop of Bath and Wells in 2014. Initially it was announced that, unlike his predecessors, he would not live in the Bishop's Palace. However that decision was later reversed. He was installed as Bishop of Bath and Wells at a service in Wells Cathedral on Saturday 7 June 2014.