Bishops of London

(From 601 to 1633)

The Diocese of London is third in importance in the Church of England after the Archdioceses of Canterbury and York.

Office

Holder

 

Year of
appointment and termination
Mellitus   601-619
Erkenwald   c. 665
     
Robert of Jumieges   1044-1051
William   1051-1075
Hugh D'Orival   1075-1085
Maurice   1085-1107
Richard de Belmeis   1108-1127
Gilbert the Universal   1128-1134
Robert de Sigillo   1141-1150
Richard de Belmeis   1152-1162
Gilbert Foliot   1163-1187
Richard FitzNeal   1189-1198
William of Ste-Mre-Eglise   1199-1221
Eustace of Fauconberg   1221-1228
Roger Niger   1229-1241
Fulke Basset   1244-1259
Henry of Wingham   1260-1262
Henry of Sandwich   1263-1273
John Chishull   1274-1280
Richard Gravesend   1280-1303
Ralph Baldock   1306-1313
Gilbert Segrave   1313-1316
Richard Newport   1317-1318
Stephen Gravesend   1319-1338
Richard Bintworth   1338-1339
Ralph Stratford   1340-1354
Michael Northburgh   1355-1361
Simon Sudbury   1362-1375
William Courtenay   1375-1381
Robert Braybrooke   1382-1404
Roger Walden   1405-1406
Nicholas Bubwith   1406-1407
Richard Clifford   1407-1421
John Kempe   1422-1425
William De Grey   1426-1431
Robert Fitzhugh   1431-1436
Robert Gilbert   1436-1448
Thomas Kempe   1450-1489
Richard Hill   1489-1496
Thomas Savage   1497-1501
William Warham   1502-1503
William Barons   1504-1505
Richard FitzJames   1506-1522
Cuthbert Tunstall   1522-1530
John Stokesley   1530-1539
Edmund Bonner deprived of title 1540-1549
Nicholas Ridley deprived of title 1550-1553
Edmund Bonner restored to and again deprived of title 1553-1559
Edmund Grindal   1559-1570
Edwin Sandys   1570-1577
John Aylmer   1577-1594
Richard Fletcher   1595-1596
Richard Bancroft   1597-1604
Richard Vaughan Bishop of Chester 1597 - 1604 1604-1607
Thomas Ravis   1607-1609
George Abbot   1610-1611
John King   1611-1621
George Montaigne Chaplain to the Earl of Essex, Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, Master of the Savoy and Chaplain to King James I, Rector of Great Cressingham, Norf., of Aspeden, Herts., of Cheam, Surrey, Dean of Westminster. Bishop of Lincoln, of London, then of Durham, Archbishop of York. d.1628. 1621-1628
William Laud   1628-1633
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