Bishops of Chester - List of Bishops

List of Bishops

List of bishops of Chester after the foundation of the modern diocese of Chester in 1546. Earlier the midland diocese had for a time had its see at Chester, for which see List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Lichfield and its precursor offices.

Bishops of Chester
From Until Incumbent Notes
1542 1554 John Bird Translated from Bangor; deprived by Mary I.
1554 1555 George Cotes Died in office.
1556 1559 Cuthbert Scott Deprived by Elizabeth I.
1561 1577 William Downham Died in office.
1579 1595 William Chaderton Translated to Lincoln.
1595 1596 Hugh Bellot Translated from Bangor; died in office.
1597 1604 Richard Vaughan Translated from Bangor; translated to London.
1604 1615 George Lloyd Translated from Sodor and Man; died in office.
1616 1619 Thomas Morton Translated to Lichfield and Coventry then Durham.
1619 1646 John Bridgeman Deprived of the see when the English episcopy was abolished by Parliament on 9 October 1646. Died in 1652.
1646 1660 The see was abolished during the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.
1660 1661 Brian Walton Died in office.
1662 1662 Henry Ferne Died shortly after consecration.
1662 1668 George Hall Also Archdeacon of Canterbury; died in office.
1668 1672 John Wilkins Died in office.
1673 1686 John Pearson Died in office.
1686 1689 Thomas Cartwright Died in office.
1689 1707 Nicholas Stratford Died in office.
1708 1714 Sir William Dawes, 3rd Baronet Translated to York.
1714 1725 Francis Gastrell Died in office.
1726 1752 Samuel Peploe Died in office.
1752 1771 Edmund Keene Translated to Ely.
1771 1776 William Markham Translated to York.
1776 1787 Beilby Porteus Translated to London.
1788 1800 William Cleaver Translated to Bangor then St Asaph.
1800 1809 Henry Majendie Translated to Bangor.
1810 1812 Bowyer Sparke Translated to Ely.
1812 1824 George Law Translated to Bath and Wells.
1824 1828 Charles Blomfield Translated to London.
1828 1848 John Sumner Translated to Canterbury.
1845 1865 John Graham Died in office.
1865 1884 William Jacobson Died in office.
1884 1889 William Stubbs Translated to Oxford.
1889 1919 Francis Jayne Resigned or retired.
1919 1932 Luke Paget Translated from Stepney.
1932 1939 Geoffrey Fisher Translated to London then Canterbury.
1939 1955 Douglas Crick Translated from Stafford.
1955 1973 Gerald Ellison Translated from Willesden; translated to London.
1974 1981 Victor Whitsey Translated from Hertford.
1982 1996 Michael Baughen Retired to London and Southwark; now honorary assistant bishop in Guildford.
1996 present Peter Forster
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