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Entries must be received by Friday 6 April.

Here is the winner from our last caption-competition photo, taken during the Beast from the East.

John ChithamMany are cold but few are frozen - Derek Wellman

We received an avalanche of entries, and could find space only for a selection. But over to our readers for the puns.

First, the weather-related:

• Snow way for a bishop to behave (Andrew Pearson)
  
  
• It’s snow fun being a bishop (David & Anne Lindsay)
  
  
• The diocesan finance chair confirmed that the Bishop had been frozen out of the current clergy pay round (Phillip Rice)
  
  
• Clearly, the Bishop was in for a frosty reception at his visitation”; “Bishop Stephen was sad to be frozen out of the discussions (Sue Chick)
  
  
• Using his favourite Author-iced Version, the visiting bishop announced his text as: ‘Sno man cometh to the Father but by me’ (Andrew Dow)
  
  
• The Bishop was confident that all his problems would soon melt away (Richard Hough)
  
  
• The Venerable Snowman (Mervyn Cox)
  
  
• In Norwich, he was known as the Priest from the East (Adrian and Diane Copping)
  
  
• Outside, there was melting and chattering of teeth (Andrew Greenhough)

There were some episcopal-dress-related puns, too:

• How are the mitred fallen (John Appleby)
  
  
• You mitre brought a bigger crook (Chris Taylor)
  
  
• Mitre known I would get stranded without the popemobile. You just can’t get the staff (Dawn Rowley-White)
  
  
• If there’s no ‘divine intervention’ then I reckon he mitre melt (Martin Rolfe)
  
  
• The new Bishop adopted a carrot-and-stick approach (Richard Barnes)
  
  
• The Bishop maintained discipline by using both the carrot and the stick (Michael Doe)
  
  
• Wippell’s latest range of mitres left him cold (Peter M. Potter)
  
  
• The Bishop’s assets have been frozen (Janet Stockton)
  
  
• I look forward to serving my see amid the winter snow (Don Manley)

And, bafflingly, some readers connected the inclement weather with episcopal personality types:

• The new Bishop couldn’t exactly be described as a warm person (George Frost)
  
  
• Although the Bishop could be stiff — even a little cool, if left out — he always thawed readily if brought inside (Peter Richbell)
  
  

Not even layers of snow can distract some from the C of E’s culture wars:

• Forward in Faith makes icily satirical response to the forthcoming appointment of the first C of E transgender bishop (Ian Barge)
  
  
• The new gender-neutral bishop pleased everybody (Adrian Copping)
  
  
• Not sure if this is sufficiently gender neutral for these days (Richard Hough)
  
  

Extreme weather had necessitated new forms of episcopal oversight, it seemed:

• To the accompaniment of ‘Walking in the Air’, the new ‘flying bishop’ was ready to minister to those unable to get to church owing to the snow (John Radford)
  
  
• As ‘flying bishops’ go, this one was a non-starter (Patrick Irwin)
  
  
• I’m the roaming frozen bishop for all those who are stuck (Robert Shooter)

Everything comes back to Brexit these days:

• The Bishop of Leicester, I presume — or could it be Southampton? (Richard Wise)
  
  
• Bishops are feeling the effects of Brexit as Europe freezes us out (C. Morgan)
  
  
• Bishop Snow’s opinion on Brexit was thawing a little, but he was still a Remainer (Clare Griffiths)
  
  

Some tributes to a comic great:

• The Diddy Men’s own Bishop stood ready for Ken Dodd’s funeral (Vicky Lundberg)
  
  
• The Chancellor reluctantly rejected the parish’s proposed memorial to Ken Dodd’s unforgettable Christmas charity concert (Ray Morris)

Some other entries that we enjoyed:

• The Beast from the East has added significantly to the diocesan slush fund (N. Collins)
  
  
• Now, children, which one is the crook? (Peter Walker)
  
  
• The Archdeacon fooled nobody with his undercover visitation (Eric Lishman)
  
  
• The Bishop may be made of snow, but the Archdeacon is made of ice (Jonnie Parkin)
  
  
• They’d requested a harmless bishop; unfortunately, their spokesperson was a Cockney (Alison Rollin)
  
  
• If somebody hadn’t forgotten the scarf, I could have been walking in the air by now (Ray Goode)
  
  
• The Arctic See (Richard Strudwick)
  
  
• New Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney consecrated (David Powell)
  
  
• With a thaw forecast, Bishop Snow’s days as Bishop of Leicester are numbered (Peter Beal)
  
  
• There is little doubt that Bishop Snow’s influence will become less when the warmer weather returns (Michael Watts)
  
  
• The first Anglican-Methodist bishop waits for a thaw in ecumenical relations (John Saxbee)

Our winner this week received a collection of Divine Easter eggs, worth £30. divinechocolate.com