THE Bishop of Southwark, the Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, is recovering in hospital after he was injured when a taxi in which he was travelling made an emergency stop.

On Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for the diocese of Southwark said that Bishop Chessun “has received some medical treatment and remains in hospital for the time being, but he is recovering well and receiving excellent care”.

They added that the Bishop was “enormously grateful for people’s expressions of concern and for their prayers”.

Clergy in the diocese were informed of the incident on Tuesday, in a letter from the Area Bishops, who said that Bishop Chessun was due to have surgery, and would need “a period of convalescence”.

In a social media post on Wednesday morning, the Precentor of Southwark Cathedral, Canon Kathryn Fleming, wrote: “The very lovely Bishop of Southwark needs our prayers owing an accident on Monday night.

“I hate that, in effect, we sent him off to be hurt as he left the cathedral that evening after another installation, and so glad that, as ever, we prayed for him in the service.”