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KINGS, QUEENS, ARCHBISHOPS & BISHOPS
OF THE UNITED KINGDOM


KINGS OF		ARCHBISHOPS OF		ARCHBISHOPS OF		BISHOPS OF		BISHOPS OF		BISHOPS OF		BISHOPS OF
ENGLAND		CANTERBURY		YORK		LONDON		DURHAM		ST. DAVID'S		ARMAGH
.		See founded before A.D. 200		See founded before A.D. 200		See founded before A.D. 200		[Missionary College founded at Iona by St. Columba from Ireland 565]		.		.
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		Persecution of the British Church under the Emperor, Diocletian. Martyrdom of St Alban, A.D. 304.
		.						St. Columba died at Iona, 597
		Bishops of York, London, and Caerleon-on-Usk, at the council of Arles, A.D. 314.						.
				Eborius	314	Restitutus	314
		British Bishops present at the Councils of Sardica, 347, and of Ariminum, 360.
												St. Patrick	445
		St Ninian settled at Whithorn, in Wigtonshire, cir. A.D. 400										(Consecrated in Gaul)
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		St. German and Gallican Bishops combated Pelagianism in Britain 429 and 447. "Alleluia" Victory, 430.										St. Benen	455
												St. Jarlath	465
												Cormac	482
		St. Mungo, driven from Glasgow, founded St. Asaph, cir. 550										Dubtach I.	497
												Aihill I.	513
		Christianity driven into Wales, Devonshire and Cornwall, by the heathen Angles and Saxons, in the Sixth Century.										Aihill II.	526
												Dubtach II.	536
		BISHOPS										David	548
		Luidhard	572	See Vacant		See Vacant		BISHOPS OF LINDISFARNE.		St. David	----	Feidlimid	551
										Cynog	----	Cairlan I	578
		St. Augustine	597							Teilo	----	Eschaid	588
		(Consecrated in Gaul.)								Ceneu	----	Senach	598
		Laurentius	605							Morfael	----
		Mellitus	619			Mellitus	604			Haerwnan	----	Mac Laisre	610
		Justus	624	Paulinus	627	Fled into Kent, 616. See vacant 38 years		St. Aidan Consecrated at Iona	634	Elwaed	----	Thomian	623
		Honorius	627-53	Fled into Kent, 633. -See vacant 30 years						Gwrnwen	----
		Deusdedit	655-64					Finan	651	Llunwerth	----
		ARCHBISHOPS						Colman	662	Gwrgwyst	----
				St. Chad	664	Cedd	654	Tuda	664	Gwgan	----	Segene	661
(Synod of Hertford.- The Churches of the Heptarchy united into one Church of Enlgand, A.D. 673)		Theodore	668-90	St. Wilfrid (retired)	669	Wine	666	Eata	678	Clydawg	----
				Bosa (retired)	678	St. Erconwald	675	St. Cuthbert	685	Eineon	----
				St. Wilfrid (restored)	686	Waldhere	693	Eadberet	688	Elford	----	Flann Febla	688
		Berhtwald	693	Bosa (restored)	691	Ingwald	706	Eatferth	698	Ethelman	----	Suibne	715
.				St John of Beverley	705	Eggwulf	745			Elanc	----	Congusa	730
		Tatwin	731	Wilfrid II	718	Sighaeh	772	Aedilnald	724	Maelsgwyd	----	Celepeter	750
		Nothelm	734	ARCHBISHOPS		Eadbert	774			Sadwrnfen	----	Fredachry	758
		Cuthbert	740-58	Egbert	732	Eadgar	789	Cynewulf	740	Cadell	----	Foendelach	768
		Bregwin	759-62			Coenwalch	791			Sulhaithnay	----	Dubdalethy I.	778
		Jaenberht	763	Ethelbert	766	Eadbald	794	Higbald	780	Novis	----	Assiat	793
				Eanbald I	782	Heathoberht	794			Idwal	----	Cudiniscus	794
		Ethelhard	790	Eanbald II	796	Osmund	802	Egbert	802	Asser	----	Conmac	798
		Wulfred	803							Arthwael	----	Torbach	807
										Samson	----	Nuad	808
				Wulfsige	812	Ethelnoth	811	Heathured	819	Ruelin	----	Flangus	812
Egbert	827					Ceolberht	824	Egfrid	828	Rhydderch	----	Artrigius	822
		Fleogild	829									Eugene I.	833
Ethelwulf	839	Ceolnoth	830	Wigmund	837			Eanbert	846			Farannan (resigned)	834
(Ethelbald	858							Eardulph	854			Dermod	848
(Ethelbert	858			Wulfhere	854	Deorwulf	860			Elwin	----	Factna	852
Ethelred	866	Ethelred	870-89			Swithwulf	--	BISHOPS OF CHESTER-LE- STREET				Ainmire	872
Alfred	871									Morbiw	----	Cathasach I.	875
		Plegemund	891									Maelcol	883
				Ethelbald	895	Heahstan	898			Llunwerth	----	Maelbrigid	885
Edward the Elder	901	Athelm	923-25			Wulfsige	898	Cutheard	900
Althelstan	915	Wulfhelm	928	Redewald	928			Tilred	915			Joseph	927
Edmund	940	Odo	941	Wulstan I	931	Theodred	926	Wigred	928	Eneuris	944	Maelpatrick	936
Edred	946							Ughtred	944	Hubert	----	Cathasach II.	937
Edwy	955	Aelsine	958	Oskytel	956	Byrrthelm	953	Sexhelme	947	Ivor	----
Edgar	958	St Dunstan	959	Ethelwold (resigned)	972	St. Dunstan	959	Aldred	947	Morgeneu	----	Muirdach	957
				Oswald	972	Aelfstan	961	Elfsig	968	Nathan	960	Dubdalethy II.	966
Edward the Martyr	975	Ethelgar	988-89							Jeuan	----
Ethelred II	979	Sigeric	990-94					Aldwine	990	Arwystl	----
		Elfric	995-05	Adulph	993	Wulfstan	996	BISHOPS OF DURHAM				Murechan (resigned)	998
Edmund Ironside	1016	Alphege	1006-12	Wulstan II	1002	Aelfun	1004			Morgenue	----	Maelmury	1001
Canute	1017	Leovingus	1013			Aelfwig	1014	Edmund	1021			Amalgaid	1021
		Ethelmoth	1020	Alfric Puttoc	1023					Ervin	1023
Harold I	1035					Aelfward	1035	Edred	1041	Trahaearn	1039
Hardicanute	1040	Eadsige	1038-50					Egelric	1042
Edward the Confessor	1042	Robert of Jumieges	1051	Kinsius	1051	Robert	1044	Egelwin	1056	Joseph	1055	Dubdalethy III.	1050
		Stigand	1052	Aldred	1060	William	1051			Bleiddud	1061	Cumasach	1065
Harold II	1066											Maelisa	1065
William I	1066	Lanfranc	1070-89	Thomas I	1070	Hugh de Orval	1075	Walchere	1071	Sulien	1071
						Maurice	1085	William	1080	Abraham	1076
William II	1087	Anselm	1093-09							Rhyddmarch	1088	Donald	1092
Henry I	1100	Ralph d'Escures	1114-22	Gerard	1100	Richard de Beaumes	1108	Ralph Flambard	1099	Griffry	1096	Celsus	1106
		William de Corbeuil	1123-36	Thomas II	1109	Gilbert	1128			Bernard	1115	Maurice	1129
				Thurstan	1114			Geoffrey Rufus	1133			St. Malachy (resigned)
Stephen	1135	Theobald	1139-61	St. William	1144	Robert de Sigillo	1141	Will St. Barbara	1143			Gelasius	1137
				Henry Murdac	1147	Richard de Beaumes	1152			David Fitzgerald	1147	Cornelius	1174
Henry II	1154	Thomas Becket	1162-70	St. William (restored)	1153			Hugh Pudsey	1153			Gilbert	1175
		Richard	1174-84	Roger Pont l'Eveque	1154	Gilbert Foliot	1163					Maelisa II.	1184
		Baldwin	1185-90							Peter de Leia	1176	Amlave	1184
Richard I	1189	Reginald Fitz jocelin	1191	Geoffrey Plantagenet	1191	Richard de Ely	1189	Philip of Poitiers	1197	Geoffrey de Henelawe	1203	Thomas O'Connor	1185
John	1199	Hubert Walter	1193-05			Wm. of St. Mary's Church	1199			Jowerth	1215	Eugene II.	1206
Henry III	1216	Stephen Langton	1207-28	Walter de Gray	1216	Eustace Fauconberg	1221					Luke Nettervil	1220
		Richard Grant	1229-31			Roger le Noir	1229	Richard de Marisco	1217			Donat	1227
		Edmund Rich	1233			Fulk Basset	1242	Richard Poor	1228	Anselm le Gros	1230	Albert of Cologne	1240
		Boniface of Savoy	1245-70	Sewall de Bovill	1256			Nicholas Farnham	1241	Thomas the Welshman	1248	Reiner	1247
(First Parliament met, 1265)				Godfrey Ludham	1258	Henry Wingham	1259	Walter Kirkham	1249	Richard de Carew	1256	Abraham O'Connellan	1257
				Walter Giffard	1266	Henry Sandwich	1263	Robert Stichell	1260			Patrick O'Scanlan	1261
Edward I	1272	Robert Kilwardby	1273-78	William Wickwaine	1279	John Chishull	1274	Robert Insula	1274			Nicholas MacMolissa	1272
		John Peckham	1279-92	John Romanus	1286	Richard Gravesend	1280	Anthony Beck	1283	Thomas Beck	1280
		Robert Winchelsey	1293	Henry Newark	1296					David Martyn	1296
				Thomas Corbidge	1300	Ralph Baldock	1306
Edward II	1307			William Greenfield	1304	Gilbert Segrave	1313					John Taafe	1305
		Walter Reynolds	1313	William Melton	1316	Richard Newport	1317	Richard Kellow	1311			Walter de Jorse (resigned)	1306
Edward III	1327	Simon Meopham	1328			Stephen Gravesend	1319	Louis Beaumont	1318	Henry de Gower	1328	Roland de Jorse (resigned)	1311
		John Stratford	1333			Richard Bentworth	1338	Robert Greystanes	1333			Stephen Segrave	1322
		Thomas Bradwardine	1349	William la Zouche	1340	Ralph Stratford	1340	Richard Bury	1333			David O'Hiraghty	1334
		Simon Islip	1349	John Thoresby	1353	Michael Northburgh	1354	Thomas Hatfield	1345	John Thoresby	1347	Richard Fitz-Ralph	1347
		Simon Langham	1366			Simon Sudbury	1362			Reginald Brian	1350
		William Whittlesey	1368-74							Thomas Fastolfe	1353
		Simon Sudbury	1375	Alexander Neville	1374	William Courtenay	1375			Adam Houghton	1361	Milo Sweetman	1361
Richard II	1377	William Courtenay	1381	Thomas Arundel	1388	Robert Braybroke	1381	John Fordham	1382	John Gilbert	1389	John Colton	1382
		Thomas Arundel	1396	Robert Waldby	1397	Roger Walden	1405	Walter Skirlawe	1388	Guy Mone	1397
Henry IV	1399	Roger Walden	1398	Richard Scrope	1398	Nicholas Bubwith	1406			Henry Chicheley	1408	Nicholas Fleming	1404
		Thomas Arundel	1399	Henry Bowet	1407	Richard Clifford	1407	Thomas Langley	1406	John Catterick	1414
Henry V	1413	Henry Chicheley	1414			John Kempe	1422			Stephen Patrington	1415	John Swayn (resigned)	1417
Henry VI	1422			John Kempe	1426	William Grey	1426			Benedict Nicholls	1418
				Robert Fitz-Hugh	1431	Thomas Redburne	1433
		John Stafford	1443			Robert Gilbert	1436	Robert Neville	1438	William Lyndwood	1442	John Prene	1439
		John Kempe	1452	William Booth	1452	Thomas Kempe	1450			John Langton	1447	John Mey	1444
		Thomas Bouchler	1454					Lawrence Booth	1457	John Delabere	1447	John Bole	1457
Edward IV	1461			George Neville	1465					Robert Tully	1460
				Lawrence Booth	1476			William Dudley	1476	Richard Martin	1482	John Foxall	1475
Edward V	1483			Thomas Rotherham	1480	Richard Hill	1489			Thomas Langton	1483	Edmund Connesburgh	1477
Richard III	1483							John Sherwood	1485	Hugh Parry	1485	Octavian de Palatio	1480
Henry VII	1485					Thomas Savage	1496	Richard Fox	1494	John Morgan	1496
		John Morton	1486	Thomas Savage	1501	William Warham	1502	William Sever	1502
		Henry Dene	1501			William Barons	1504			Robert Sherborne	1505
		William Warham	1503-32	Christopher Bainbrigg	1508	Richard Fitz-James	1506	Christopher Bainbrigg	1507
				Thomas Wolsey	1514			Thomas Ruthall	1509	Edward Vaughan	1509	John Kite	1513
						Cuthbert Tunstall	1522	Thomas Wolsey	1523	Richard Rawlings	1523	George Cromer	1522
Henry VIII	1509			Edward Lee	1531	John Stokesley	1530	Cuthbert Tunstall	1530	William Barlow	1536
				Robert Holgate	1545	Edmund Bonner	1540			Robert Ferrar	1548	George Dowdall	1543
		Thomas Cranmer	1533			Nicholas Ridley	1550					Hugh Goodacre	1552
				Nicholas Heath	1555	Edmund Bonner (rest'd)	1553			Henry Morgan	1554
Edward VI	1547			Thomas Young	1561	Edmund Grindal	1559	James Pilkington	1561	Thomas Young	1560	Adam Loftus	1562
Mary	1553	Reginald Pole	1556-58	Edmund Grindal	1570	Edwin Sandys	1570			Richard Davies	1561	Thomas Lancaster	1568
Elizabeth	1558	Matthew Parker	1559	Edwin Sandys	1577	John Aylmer	1577	Richard Barnes	1577	Marmaduke Middleton	1582	John Long	1584
				John Piers	1589	Richard Fletcher	1595	Matthew Hutton	1589	Anthony Rudd	1594	John Garvey	1589
		Edmund Grindal	1575	Matthew Hutton	1595	Richard Bancroft	1597	Tobias Matthew	1595			Henry Ussher	1595
		John Whitgift	1583			Richard Vaughan	1604
				Tobias Matthew	1606	Thomas Ravis	1607	William James	1606
James I	1603	Richard Bancroft	1604-10			George Abbot	1610					Christopher Hampton	1613
				George Monteigne	1628	John King	1611	Richard Neile	1617	Richard Milbourne	1615
		George Abbot	1611	Samuel Haranet	1628	George Monteigne	1621	George Monteigne	1627	William Laud	1621	James Ussher	1624
				Richard Neile	1632	William Laud	1628	John Howson	1628	Theophilus Field	1627
Charles I	1625	William Laud	1633	John Williams	1641	William Juxon	1633	Thomas Morton	1632	Roger Mainwaring	1636
		Beheaded 1645, See vacant.		Died 1650, See vacant.				Died 1659, see vacant		Died 1653, see vacant
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(Interregnum, 1649)	[The bishops driven from their dioceses and the clergy ejected from their benefices. Abolition of the House of Lords, Civil War. Great sufferings of the clergy. Oppression of the faithful laity. Rivalries of the Presbyterians and Indepependents. The use of Prayer Book and the administration of the Sacraments made a penal offence. Religious Anarchy. Suppression of personal liberty. Abolition of the House of Commons. Military dictatorship of Cromwell. Restoration of the Monarchy and Revival of the Church.)
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Charles II	1660	William Juxon	1660	Accepted Frewen	1660	Gilbert Sheldon	1660	John Cosin	1660	William Lucy	1660	John Bramhall	1660
		Gilbert Sheldon	1663	Richard Sterne	1664	Humphrey Henchman	1663					James Margetson	1663
		William Sancroft	1677/8			Henry Compton	1675	Nathaniel, Lord Crewe	1674	William Thomas	1678	Michael Boyle	1678
				John Dolben	1683					Lawrence Womack	1683
James II	1685			Thomas Lamplugh	1688					John Lloyd	1686
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		[Attempt of the King to subject the country to Papal domination. Protest and Imprisonment of "The Seven Bishops," viz:- Archbishop Sancroft of Canterbury, and Bisops Lloyd of St. Asaph, Ken of Bath and Wells, Trelawney of Bristol, Lake of Chichester, Turner of Ely, and White of Peterborough, Their notable trial at Westminster and triumphant acquittal. The Revolution.)
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William III	1689	John Tillotson	1691-94	John Sharpe	1691	.	.	.	.	Thomas Watson	1687	.	.
Anne	1702	Thomas Tenison	1695							George Bull	1705	Narcissus Marsh	1702
										Philip Bisse	1710
George I	1714	William Wake	1715/6	Sir William Dawes	1714	John Robinson	1714			Adam Ottley	1713	Thomas Lindsay	1713
				Lancelot Blackburne	1724	Edmund Gibson	1723	William Talbot	1722	Richard Smallbrooke	1724	Hugh Boulter	1724
George II	1727							Edward Chandler	1730	Elias Sydall	1731
		John Potter	1737							Nicholas Clagget	1732
				Thomas Herring	1743					*Edward Willes	1743	John Hoadley	1742
		Thomas Herring	1747	Matthew Hutton	1747	Thomas Sherlock	1748	Joseph Butler	1750	Hon. Richard Trevor	1744	George Stone	1746
		Matthew Hutton	1757	John Gilbert	1757			Richard Trevor	1752	Anthony Ellis	1752
George III	1760	Thomas Secker	1758	Hon. Robt. Hay Drummond	1761	Thomas Hayter	1761			Samuel Squire	1761
		Frederick Cornwallis	1768			Richard Osbaldeston	1762			Robert Lowth	1766	Richard Robinson	1765
						Richard Terrick	1764	John Egerton	1771	Charles Moss	1766
				William Markham	1777	Robert Lowth	1777			Hon. James Yorke	1774
										John Warren	1779
		John Moore	1783			Beilby Porteous	1787	Thomas Thurlow	1787	Edward Smallwell	1783
								Hon. Shute Barrington	1791	Samuel Horsley	1788
										Hon. William Stuart	1794	William Newcome	1795
		Charles Manners Sutton	1805			John Randolph	1809			Lord George Murray	1800	William Stewart	1800
				Edw. V. Vernon Harcourt	1808	William Howley	1813			Thomas Burgess	1803
George IV	1820	William Howley	1828			Charles James Blomfield	1828	William Van Mildert	1826	John Banks Jenkinson	1825	Lord John G. Beresford	1822
William IV	1830							Edward Maltby	1836
Victoria	1837	John Bird Sumner	1848	Thomas Musgrave	1847			Chas. Thos. Longley	1856	Connop Thirlwall	1840
		Chas. Thos. Langley	1862	Chas. Thos. Longley	1860	Arch. Campbell Tait	1856	Hon. H. Montagu Villiers	1860			Marcus G. Beresford	1862

		Foundation of nine additional Bishoprics in England. Great increase of the Episcopate in the Colonies. Rivival of the Convocations of the Clergy of Canterbury and York. Revision of the Authorised Version of the Bible. Establishment of Diocesan Conferences of Clergy and Laity. Meeting of the Pan-Anglican Conference of Bishops at Lambeth. Establishment of Houses of Laymen for both English Provinces. Great efforts of the Church for the Education of the People. Great increase in the Foreign Missionary work of the Church.

		Arch. Campbell Tait	1868-82	William Thomson	1863	John Jackson	1869	Charles Baring	1861	Wm. Basil T. Jones	1874	Robert Knox	1886
		Edward White Benson	1883	William Connor Magee	1891	Frederick Temple	1885	Josh. Barber Lightfoot	1879	Disestablished Bishops		Robt. Samuel Gregg	1894
Edward VII	1901	Frederick Temple	1896-02	William D. Maclagan	1891	Mandell Creighton	1896	Brooke Foss Westcott	1890	John Owen	1897	William Alexander	1896
George V	1910	Randall Davidson	1903	Cosmo Gordon Lang	1908	A. F.Winnington-Ingram	1901	Handley C.G. Moule	1901	David Prosser	1926	John Crozier	1911
		Cosmo Gordon Lang	1928	William Temple	1929			Herbert Hensley	1920			Charles D'Arcy	1920
Edward VIII	1936	William Temple	1942-44			Geoffrey Francis Fisher	1939					Godfrey Day	1938
George VI	1936	Geoffrey Francis Fisher	1945	Cyril Forster Garbett	1942	John W.C. Wand	1945	Alwyn Terrell Petre	1939	William Havard	1950	John Gregg	1939
Elizabeth II	1952	Arthur Michael Ramsey	1961	Arthur Michael Ramsey	1956	Henry M. Campbell	1956	Arthur Michael Ramsey	1952	John Richards	1956	James McCann	1959
		Fredk. Donald Coggan	1974	Fredk. Donald Coggan	1961	Robert Wright Stopford	1961	Maurice Henry Harland	1956	Eric Roberts	1971	George Simms	1969
		Robert Runcie	1980	Stuart Blanche	1974	Gerald Alexander Ellison	1973	Ian Thomas Ramsey	1966	George Noakes	1982	John Armstrong	1980
		George Carey	1991	John Stapylton Habgood	1983	Graham Leonard	1981	John S. Habgood	1973	Ivor Rees	1991	Robin Eames	1986
		Rowan Williams	2002	David Hope	1995	David Hope	1991	David Jenkins	1984	Huw Jones	1996	Alan Harper	2007
		Justin Welby	2013	John Sentamu	2005	Richard Chartres	1995	Michael Turnbull	1994	Carl Cooper	2002	Richard Clarke	2012
								Tom Wright	2003	Wyn Evans	2008
								Justin Welby	2011
								Paul Butler	2014

Whilst every attempt has been made to ensure that the data in this table is accurate, I offer no guarantees that this is so. Original Table generated by Colin Hinson who added some corrections and additions by Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake.

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KINGS, QUEENS, ARCHBISHOPS & BISHOPSOF THE UNITED KINGDOM

KINGS, QUEENS, ARCHBISHOPS & BISHOPS
OF THE UNITED KINGDOM