A 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.

 

Coventry's Bishops

Bishops of Mercia

656 - Diuma
658 - Ceollach
659 - Trumhere
663 - Jaruman

Bishops of Lichfield

664 - Ceadda (Chad)
672 - Wynfrith
675 - Seaxwulf
691 - Headda
721 - Ealdwine
737 - Hwita
752 - Hemele
765 - Cuthfrith
768 - Beorhtun
779 - Hygebeorht *
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 **
1072 - Peter #
1096 - Robert de Limesey ##

Bishops of Coventry

1121 - Robert Peche
1129 - Roger de Clinton
1149 - Walter Durdent
1161 - Richard Peche
1183 - Gerard La Pucelle
1183 - Hugh Nonant
1193 - Geoffrey Muschamp
1214 - William Cornhill
1224 - Alexander Stavensby
(1228 - Coventry and Lichfield)

Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield

1240 - Hugh Pateshull
1245 - Roger Weseham
1258 - Roger Longespec
1296 - Walter Langton
1322 - Roger Northburgh
1360 - Robert Stretton
1386 - Walter Skirlaw
1386 - Richard le Scrope
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
1543 - Richard Sampson
1554 - Ralph Bayne
1560 - Thomas Bentham
1580 - William Overton
1609 - George Abbot
1610 - Richard Neile
1614 - John Overall
1619 - Thomas Morton
1632 - Robert Wright
1644 - Accepted Frewen

Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry

1661 - John Hacket
1671 - Thomas Wood
1692 - William Lloyd
1699 - John Hough
1717 - Edward Chandler
1731 - Richard Smallbrooke
1750 - Frederick Cornwallis
1768 - John Egerton
1771 - Brownlow North
1775 - Richard Hurd
1781 - James Cornwallis
1824 - Henry Ryder
1836 - Samuel Butler

Bishops of Worcester and Coventry

(Coventry seceded to Worcester 1836)
1831 - Robert James Carr
1841 - Henry Pepys
1861 - Henry Philpott
1891 - John James Stewart Perowne
1891 - Henry Bond Bowlby
(Suffragan Bishop of Coventry)
1894 - Edmund Arbuthnott Knox
(Suffragan Bishop of Coventry)
1901 - Charles Gore
1905 - Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs

Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry

1918 - Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs
1922 - Charles Lisle Carr
1931 - Mervyn George Haigh
1943 - Neville Vincent Gorton
1956 - Cuthbert Killick Bardsley
1976 - John Gibbs
1985 - Simon Barrington-Ward
1998 - Colin James Bennetts
2008 - Christopher John Cocksworth

# Transferred his see to Chester 1073

## Transferred his see to Coventry 1102

* Archbishop of Lichfield after 787 to 801

** First Abbot of Coventry 1043


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