Bishop's Cemetery, also known as St. Joseph's Cemetery or Catholic Cemetery, was located in Richmond, Virginia, where Anniston St. meets Magnolia St. (There are 2 such intersections; this is the southern one.) The original name for the neighborhood was Chelsea Hill or Bowling Green, and prior to annexation in was in Henrico County. The residential area of Chelsea Hill extended from N. 17th St. (now named Oliver Hill Way) up the hill to Mechanicsville Tpke., and was divided into rowhouse lots. Some of the original streets were closed or realigned when Chelsea Hill was redeveloped into subsidized housing and detached single-family homes.

Bishop's Cemetery was established by 1869 for members of St. Joseph's Parish. An article in the Richmond Dispatch, Thur. 1 Jan. 1874, page 3, listed 141 burials for the prior year in "Catholic Cemetery (Mechanicsville turnpike)," John McGeary, sexton. The cemetery was consecrated as part of a city-wide event on All Soul's Day, Nov. 3, 1874 (Richmond Dispatch, Tue., Nov. 3, 1874). A procession of almost 50 carriages, led by the bishop and clergy, proceeded to the cemetery, where the bishop changed into his robes in the keeper's residence, and then conducted the consecration service.

In 1885 Mr. McGeary was transferred to Mt. Calvary Cemetery, possibly leaving Bishop's Cemetery without a full-time sexton. An article on or about Nov. 4, 1892, quoted 50 years later in The Richmond News Leader, Wed., Nov. 4, 1942, stated "The work of removing the bodies of the dead at the old Bishop's Cemetery to Mt. Calvary is in progress." According to an article in The Times-Dispatch, Sun., Sep. 13, 1903, about the theft of a tombstone from Bishop's Cemetery, the cemetery was disused and some graves had already been moved.

In Jan. 1971 the Catholic Diocese of Richmond initiated moving the remaining graves to two active cemeteries, Mt. Calvary Cemetery and Holy Cross Cemetery, and selling the land at a below-market price for a public playground. A legal notice in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Wed. Jan. 13, 1971 listed the names of numerous persons still buried in the cemetery, thought to total about 150.