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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. If you notice this list become out of date, please contact me to remind me to update it.
Go straight to: | 656 - Bishops of Mercia | 664 - Bishops of Lichfield | 1102 - Bishops of Coventry | 1228 - Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield | 1661 - Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry | 1839 - Bishops of Worcester and Coventry | 1918 - Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry | Top of the page | | ||
Bishops of Mercia | ||
656 | Diuma | |
658 | Ceollach | |
659 | Trumhere | |
663 | Jaruman | |
Go straight to: | 656 - Bishops of Mercia | 664 - Bishops of Lichfield | 1102 - Bishops of Coventry | 1228 - Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield | 1661 - Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry | 1839 - Bishops of Worcester and Coventry | 1918 - Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry | Top of the page | | ||
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 |
Go straight to: | 656 - Bishops of Mercia | 664 - Bishops of Lichfield | 1102 - Bishops of Coventry | 1228 - Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield | 1661 - Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry | 1839 - Bishops of Worcester and Coventry | 1918 - Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry | Top of the page | | ||
Bishops of Coventry | ||
1102 | Robert de Limesey | |
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 | |
Go straight to: | 656 - Bishops of Mercia | 664 - Bishops of Lichfield | 1102 - Bishops of Coventry | 1228 - Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield | 1661 - Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry | 1839 - Bishops of Worcester and Coventry | 1918 - Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry | Top of the page | | ||
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 | 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 | d. 1543 |
1543 | Richard Sampson | d. 1554 |
1554 | Ralph Bayne | d. 1559. Last Roman Catholic Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. |
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 |
Go straight to: | 656 - Bishops of Mercia | 664 - Bishops of Lichfield | 1102 - Bishops of Coventry | 1228 - Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield | 1661 - Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry | 1839 - Bishops of Worcester and Coventry | 1918 - Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry | Top of the page | | ||
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. 20th July 1750 |
1731 | Richard Smallbrooke | d. 22nd December 1749 |
1750 | Frederick Cornwallis | d. 19 March 1783 |
1768 | John Egerton | d. 18 June 1787 |
1771 | Brownlow North | d. 12th July 1820 |
1775 | Richard Hurd | d. 28th May 1808 |
1781 | James Cornwallis | d. 20th January 1824 |
1824 | Henry Ryder | d. 31st March 1836 |
1836 | Samuel Butler | d. 4th December 1839 |
Go straight to: | 656 - Bishops of Mercia | 664 - Bishops of Lichfield | 1102 - Bishops of Coventry | 1228 - Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield | 1661 - Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry | 1839 - Bishops of Worcester and Coventry | 1918 - Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry | Top of the page | | ||
Bishops of Worcester and Coventry | ||
1839 | Robert James Carr | d. 24th April 1841. Previously Bishop of Worcester from 1831. (Coventry seceded to Worcester in 1836.) |
1841 | Henry Pepys | d. 13th November 1860 |
1861 | Henry Philpott | d. 10th January 1892 |
1891 | John James Stewart Perowne | d. 6th November 1904 |
1891 | Henry Bond Bowlby | d. 27th August 1894. Suffragan Bishop of Worcester and Coventry. |
1894 | Edmund Arbuthnott Knox | d. 16th January 1937. Suffragan Bishop of Worcester and Coventry. |
1901 | Charles Gore | d. 17th January 1932 |
1905 | Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs | |
Go straight to: | 656 - Bishops of Mercia | 664 - Bishops of Lichfield | 1102 - Bishops of Coventry | 1228 - Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield | 1661 - Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry | 1839 - Bishops of Worcester and Coventry | 1918 - Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry | Top of the page | | ||
Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry | ||
1918 | Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs | d. 14th April 1922 |
1922 | Charles Lisle Carr | d. 20th May 1942 |
1931 | Mervyn George Haigh | d. 20th May 1962 |
1943 | Neville Vincent Gorton | d. 30th November 1955 |
1956 | Cuthbert Killick Bardsley | d. 9th January 1991 |
1976 | John Gibbs | d. 20th December 2007 |
1985 | Simon Barrington-Ward | d. 11th April 2020, aged 89 |
1998 | Colin James Bennetts | d. 10th July 2013 |
2008 | Christopher John Cocksworth |
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