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 | |||
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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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