Bishop 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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