- List of Bishops of Worcester
This is a list of
Bishop s ofWorcester , now an Anglican diocese, in England.*
Bosel 680
*Oftfor 691
*Egwin 693
*Wilfrith I 718
*Milred about 743
*Waermund 775
*Tilhere 777
* Heathured (AEthelred) 781
*Denebeorht 798
*Heahbeorht (Eadbert) 822
*Ealhhun (Alwin) about 845
*Waerfrith 873
*Æthelhun 915
*Wilfrith II 922
*Coenwald (Koenwald ) 929
* St. Dunstan 957
* St. Oswald 961
*Ealdwulf 992
* Wulfstan 1003
*Leofsige 1016
*Beorhtheah 1033
* Lyfing 1038
*Aelfric Puttoc 1040
* Lyfing (restored) 1041
* Ealdred 1046
* St. Wulfstan II 1062
* Samson 1096
*Theulf 1113
*Simon of Worcester 1125
*John de Pageham 1151
*Alured 1158
*Roger of Worcester 1163
* Baldwin 1180
*William of Northall 1185
*Robert FitzRalph 1191
*Henry de Sully 1193
*John of Coutances 1195
*Mauger of Worcester 1198
*Randulph of Evesham 1213, election quashed
*Walter de Grey 1214
*Sylvester of Worcester 1216
*William de Blois, Bishop of Worcester 1218
*Walter de Cantilupe 1237
*Nicholas of Ely 1266
*Godfrey de Giffard 1268
*John St German 1302 election quashed 1302
*William Gainsborough 1301
*Walter Reynolds 1307
*Walter Maidstone 1313
*Thomas Cobham 1317
*Wulstan Bransford 1327, election quashed
*Adam Orleton 1327
*Simon Montacute 1333
*Thomas Hemenhale 1337
*Wulstan Bransford 1339
*John de Thoresby 1349
*Reginald Brian 1352
*John Barnet 1362
*William Wittlesey 1363
*William Lenn 1368
*Walter Lyghe 1373 election quashed 1375
*Henry Wakefield 1375
*Tideman of Winchcomb 1394
*Richard Clifford 1401
*Thomas Peverel 1407
* Philip Morgan 1419
* Thomas Poulton 1425
*Thomas Brunce elected but never consecrated 1433
*Thomas Bourchier 1434
* John Carpenter 1443-1476
* John Alcock 1476-1486
* Robert Morton 1486-1497
*Giovanni de' Gigli 1497-1498
*Silvestro de' Gigli 1498-1521
*Geronimo De Ghinucci 1523-1533
*Hugh Latimer resigned title 1535-1539
* John Bell 1539-1543
*Nicholas Heath 1543-1551
*John Hooper deprived of title 1552-1554
*Nicholas Heath restored to title 1554-1555
* Richard Pate deprived of title 1555-1559
* Edwin Sandys 1559-1571
*Nicholas Bullingham , 1571-1576
*John Whitgift , 1577-1583
*Edmund Freke , 1584-1591
* Richard Fletcher, 1593-1595
*Thomas Bilson , 1596-1597
*Gervase Babington , 1597-1610
* Henry Parry, 1610-1616
*John Thornborough , 1617-1641
*John Prideaux , 1641-1650
*George Morley , 1660-1662
*John Gauden , 1662
* John Earle, 1662-1663
*Robert Skinner , 1663-1670
*Walter Blandford , 1671-1675
*James Fleetwood , 1675-1683
* William Thomas, 1683-1689
*Edward Stillingfleet , 1689-1699
* William Lloyd, 1699-1717
* John Hough, 1717-1743
*Isaac Maddox , 1743-1759
* James Johnson, 1759-1774
*Brownlow North , 1774-1781
* Richard Hurd, 1781-1808
*Folliott Herbert Walker Cornewall , 1808-1831
*Robert James Carr , 1831-1841
*Henry Pepys , 1841-1860
*Henry Philpott , 1860-1890
*John James Stewart Perowne , 1890-1902
*Charles Gore , 1902-1905
*Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs , 1905-1918
*Ernest Harold Pearce , 1919-1931
*Arthur William Thomson Perowne , 1931-1941
*William Wilson Cash , 1941-1956
* Lewis Mervyn Charles-Edwards, 1956-1971
* Robert Wilmer Woods, 1971-1982
*Philip Goodrich , 1982-1996 [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/01/29/db02.xml]
*Peter Selby , 1997-2007
*John Inge , 2007 -ource
* [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33881 British History Online Bishops of Worcester] accessed on November 3, 2007
* Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961
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