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Bishops of Mercia |
| 656 | Diuma | |
| 658 | Ceollach | |
| 659 | Trumhere | |
| 663 | Jaruman | |
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Bishops of Lichfield |
| 664 | Ceadda (Chad) | |
| 672 | Wynfrith | |
| 675 | Seaxwulf | |
| 691 | Headda | |
| 721 | Ealdwine | |
| 737 | Hwita | |
| 752 | Hemele | |
| 765 | Cuthfrith | |
| 768 | Beorhtun | |
| 779 | Hygebeorht | Archbishop of Lichfield after 787 to 801 |
| 802 | Ealdwulf | |
| 816 | Herewine | |
| 818 | Aethelweard | |
| 828 | Hunbeorht | |
| 836 | Cynefrith | |
| 844 | Tunbeorht | |
| 869 | Eadbeorht | |
| 880 | Wulfred | |
| 909 | Wigmund | |
| 925 | Aelfwine | |
| 941 | Aelfgar | |
| 949 | Cynesige | |
| 964 | Wynsige | |
| 973 | Aelfheah | |
| 1003 | Godwine | |
| 1020 | Leofgar | |
| 1025 | Beorhtmaer | |
| 1039 | Wulfsige | |
| 1053 | Leofwine | First Abbot of Coventry 1043 |
| 1072 | Peter | Transferred his see to Chester 1073 |
| 1096 | Robert de Limesey | Transferred his see to Coventry 1102 |
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Bishops of Coventry |
| 1102 | Robert de Limesey | |
| 1121 | Robert Peche | |
| 1129 | Roger de Clinton | |
| 1149 | Walter Durdent | |
| 1161 | Richard Peche | |
| 1183 | Hugh Nonant | |
| 1183 | Gerard La Pucelle | |
| 1193 | Geoffrey Muschamp | |
| 1214 | William Cornhill | |
| 1224 | Alexander Stavensby | |
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Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield |
| 1228 | Alexander Stavensby | |
| 1240 | Hugh Pateshull | |
| 1245 | Roger Weseham | |
| 1258 | Roger Longespec | |
| 1296 | Walter Langton | |
| 1322 | Roger Northburgh | |
| 1360 | Robert Stretton | |
| 1386 | Richard le Scrope | |
| 1386 | Walter Skirlaw | |
| 1399 | John Burghill | |
| 1415 | John Catterick | |
| 1420 | William Heyworth | |
| 1447 | William Booth | |
| 1452 | Nicholas Close | |
| 1453 | Reginald Boulers | |
| 1459 | John Hales | |
| 1493 | William Smith | |
| 1496 | John Arundel | |
| 1503 | Geoffrey Blyth | |
| 1534 | Rowland Lee | d. 1543 |
| 1543 | Richard Sampson | d. 1554 |
| 1554 | Ralph Bayne | Last Roman Catholic Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield of Lichfield and Coventry. d. 1559 |
| 1560 | Thomas Bentham | d. 1578 |
| 1580 | William Overton | d. 1609 |
| 1609 | George Abbot | d. 1633 |
| 1610 | Richard Neile | d. 1640 |
| 1614 | John Overall | d. 1619 |
| 1619 | Thomas Morton | d. 1659 |
| 1632 | Robert Wright | d. 1643 |
| 1644 | Accepted Frewen | d. 1664 |
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Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry |
| 1661 | John Hacket | d. 1670 |
| 1671 | Thomas Wood | d. 1692 |
| 1692 | William Lloyd | d. 1717 |
| 1699 | John Hough | d. 1743 |
| 1717 | Edward Chandler | d. 1750 |
| 1731 | Richard Smallbrooke | d. 1749 |
| 1750 | Frederick Cornwallis | d. 1783 |
| 1768 | John Egerton | d. 1746 |
| 1771 | Brownlow North | d. 1820 |
| 1775 | Richard Hurd | d. 1808 |
| 1781 | James Cornwallis | d. 1924 |
| 1824 | Henry Ryder | d. 1936 |
| 1836 | Samuel Butler | d. 1839 |
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Bishops of Worcester and Coventry |
| 1839 | Robert James Carr | Bishop of Worcester and Coventry of Worcester from 1831. d. 1841 (Coventry seceded to Worcester 1836) |
| 1841 | Henry Pepys | d. 1860 |
| 1861 | Henry Philpott | d. 1892 |
| 1891 | John James Stewart Perowne | d. 1904 |
| 1891 | Henry Bond Bowlby | Suffragan Bishops of Worcester and Coventry of Coventry. d. 1894 |
| 1894 | Edmund Arbuthnott Knox | Suffragan Bishops of Worcester and Coventry of Coventry. d. 1937 |
| 1901 | Charles Gore | d. 1932 |
| 1905 | Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs | d. 1922 |
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Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry |
| 1918 | Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs | d. 1922 |
| 1922 | Charles Lisle Carr | d. 1942 |
| 1931 | Mervyn George Haigh | d. 1962 |
| 1943 | Neville Vincent Gorton | d. 1955 |
| 1956 | Cuthbert Killick Bardsley | d. 1991 |
| 1976 | John Gibbs | d. 2007 |
| 1985 | Simon Barrington-Ward | |
| 1998 | Colin James Bennetts | |
| 2008 | Christopher John Cocksworth | |
full list of Coventry's Bishops, from a list displayed in the New Cathedral. It begins with the Bishops of Mercia way back in Saxon times, and takes us through the various reorganisations when Coventry and Lichfield, and later Worcester, became the dominant diocese.
