Bishops of Wells Cathedral

Bishops of Wells Cathedral

(all Bishops are buried at Wells unless otherwise stated)

Bishops of Wells

909 – 914 Athelm Canterbury

914 – 923 Wulfhelm I Canterbury

926 – 937 Aelfeah

938 – 955 Wulfhelm II

956 – 974 Brithelm

974 – 975 Cyneward

975 – 997 Sigar

997 – 999 Aelfwine

999 – 1013 Lyfing Canterbury

1013 – 1023 Aethelwine

1024 – 1033 Brihtwig alias Merewit Glastonbury

1033 – 1060 Duduc

1061 – 1088 Giso

Bishops of Bath

1088 – 1122 John of Tours Bath

1123 – 1135 Godfrey Bath

1136 – 1166 Robert of Lewes Bath

1174 – 1191 Reginald de Bohun Bath

1192 – 1205 Savaric Fitzgeldewin (Bishop of Bath & Glastonbury) Bath

1206 – 1242 Jocelyn of Wells (Bishop of Bath & Glastonbury 1206-1219)

Bishops of Bath and Wells

1244 – 1247 Roger of Salisbury Bath

1248 – 1264 William Bytton I

1265 – 1266 Walter Giffard York

1267 – 1274 William Bytton II

1275 – 1292 Robert Burnell

1293 – 1302 William of March

1302 – 1308 Walter Haselshaw

1309 – 1329 John Drokensford

1329 – 1363 Ralph of Shrewsbury

1363 – 1366 John Barnet Bishops Hatfield, Herts.

1367 – 1386 John Harewell

1386 – 1388 Walter Skirlaw Durham

1388 – 1400 Ralph Erghum

1400 – 1401 Richard Clifford St Paul’s

1401 – 1407 Henry Bowet York

1407 – 1424 Nicholas Bubwith

1425 – 1443 John Stafford Canterbury

1443 – 1465 Thomas Bekynton

1466 – 1491 Robert Stillington

1492 – 1494 Richard Fox Winchester

1495 – 1503 Oliver King St George’s, Windsor

1504 – 1518 Hadrian de Castello (abroad)

1518 – 1523 Thomas Wolsey Leicester

1523 – 1541 John Clerke Minories, London

1541 – 1547 William Knight

1548 – 1553 William Barlow Chichester

1554 – 1559 Gilbert Bourne Silverton, Devon

1560 – 1581 Gilbert Berkeley

1584 – 1590 Thomas Godwyn Wokingham, Berks.

1593 – 1608 John Still

1608 – 1616 James Montague Bath

1616 – 1626 Arthur Lake

1626 – 1628 William Laud St John’s College, Oxford

1628 – 1629 Leonard Mawe Chiswick

1629 – 1632 Walter Curll Soberton, Hants.

1632 – 1670 William Piers Walthamstow, Essex

1670 – 1672 Robert Creyghton

1673 – 1684 Peter Mews Winchester

1685 – 1691 Thomas Ken Frome, Somerset

1691 – 1703 Richard Kidder

1704 – 1727 George Hooper

1727 – 1743 John Wynne Northrop, Flints.

1743 – 1773 Edward Willes Westminster

1774 – 1802 Charles Moss Grosvenor Chapel, W1

1802 – 1824 Richard Beadon

1824 – 1845 George Henry Law

1845 – 1854 Richard Bagot Blithfield, Staffs.

1854 – 1869 Robert John, Baron Auckland

1869 – 1894 Lord Arthur Charles Hervey

1894 – 1921 George Kennion

1921 – 1937 St John Basil Wynne Willson

1937 – 1943 Francis Underhill

1943 – 1945 John William Wand St Paul’s, London

1946 – 1960 Harold Bradfield

1960 – 1975 Edward Henderson

1975 – 1987 John Bickersteth

1987 – 1990 George Carey

1991 – 2001 James Thompson Cutcombe, Somerset

2002 – Peter Price