The '''Diocese of Ysabel''' is one of the ten current dioceses within the Anglican Church of Melanesia.
It was one of the four founding dioceses established in 1975<ref>[http://acom.org.sb/dioceses-bishops/diocese-of-malaita Anglican Church of Melanesia — Diocese of Malaita] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128191421/http://acom.org.sb/dioceses-bishops/diocese-of-malaita |date=2020-11-28 }} (Accessed 4 September 2016).</ref> and was inaugurated on 1 March 1975 at Jejevo Primary School. The diocese currently encompasses four regions and 28 districts or parishes, with its headquarters in Jejevo, Buala, located on Santa Isabel Island in the Solomon Islands.
==List of bishops== {| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;" | Bishops of Ysabel |- ! style="background-color: #D4B1BB;"| From ! style="background-color: #D4B1BB;" | Until ! style="background-color: #D4B1BB;" | Incumbent ! style="background-color: #D4B1BB;" | Notes
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;" | style="text-align: center;" | 1975 | style="text-align: center;" | 1980 | '''Dudley Tuti''' | First bishop; previously assistant bishop in the Diocese of Melanesia since 1963; retired in 1980 and knighted.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;" | style="text-align: center;" | 1981 | style="text-align: center;" | 1994 | '''Ellison Pogo''' | Second bishop; consecrated and installed on 1 November 1981;<ref>[http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/COM_archives.pdf List of small publications in the Archives of the Anglican Church of Melanesia (in the National Archives of Solomon Islands)] pp. 9–10. (Accessed 25 August 2016)</ref> became Archbishop of Melanesia in 1994 and knighted.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;" | style="text-align: center;" | 1995 | style="text-align: center;" | 1999 | '''Walter Siba''' | Third bishop.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;" | style="text-align: center;" | 2000 | style="text-align: center;" | 2003 | '''Zephaniah Legumana''' | Fourth bishop; consecrated and installed on 28 January 2000.<ref>Small publications, p. 24. (Accessed 30 August 2016)</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;" | style="text-align: center;" | 2004 | style="text-align: center;" | 2015 | '''Richard Naramana''' | Fifth bishop; consecrated and installed on 18 April 2004;<ref>Small publications, p. 29. (Accessed 30 August 2016)</ref> retired September 2015.<ref name="sixth">[http://acom.org.sb/provincial-news/item/798-acom-elects-new-bishop-for-ysabel Anglican Church of Melanesia — ACoM elects new Bishop for Ysabel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916061903/http://acom.org.sb/provincial-news/item/798-acom-elects-new-bishop-for-ysabel |date=2016-09-16 }} (Accessed 4 September 2016)</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;" | style="text-align: center;" | 2015 | style="text-align: center;" | ''present'' | '''Ellison Quity''' | Sixth bishop; elected 10 November 2015.<ref name="sixth" /> |}
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==Sources== *[http://acom.org.sb/dioceses-bishops/diocese-of-ysabel Anglican Church of Melanesia — Diocese of Ysabel] {{ACOM dioceses}}
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