List of Bishops of Durham
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List of Bishops of Durham.

Anglo-Saxon Bishops (995-1071)

See also List of bishops of Lindisfarne.

• Aldhun 995-1018 (previously Bishop of Lindisfarne)
• Eadmund 1021-1041
• Eadred 1041-1042
• Ethelric 1042-1056
• Ethelwin 1056-1071

Prince-Bishops (1071-1559)

• William Walcher 1071-1080
• William de St-Calais 1081-1096
• Ranulf Flambard 1099-1128
• Geoffrey Rufus 1133-1140
• William Cumin 1141-1143
• William of St. Barbara 1143-1153
• Hugh de Puiset 1153-1195
• Philip of Poitou 1197-1208
• Richard Poore 1209-1213 election quashed, later elected and consecrated
• John de Gray 1214 died before consecration
• Morgan 1215 election quashed
• Richard Marsh 1217-1226
• William Scot 1226-1227 election quashed
• Richard Poore 1229-1237
• Thomas of Melsonby 1237-1240 resigned before consecration
• Nicholas Farnham 1241-1249
• Walter of Kirkham 1249
• Robert Stitchill 1260-1274
• Robert of Holy Island 1274-1283
• Antony Bek 1284-1310; also Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1306 to 1311, the only Englishman ever to hold this post.
• Richard Kellaw 1311-1316
• Lewis de Beaumont 1318-1333
• Richard de Bury 1333-1345
• Thomas Hatfield 1345-1381
• John Fordham 1382-1388
• Walter Skirlaw 1388-1406
• Thomas Langley 1406-1437
• Robert Neville 1437-1457
• Lawrence Booth 1457-1476
• William Dudley 1476-1483
• John Sherwood 1484-1494
• Richard Foxe 1494-1501
• William Senhouse 1502-1505
• Christopher Bainbridge 1507-1508
• Thomas Ruthall 1509-1523
• Thomas Wolsey 1523-1529
• Cuthbert Tunstall 1530-1559

Anglican Prince-Bishops (1561-1836)

• James Pilkington 1561-1576
• Richard Barnes 1577-1587
• Matthew Hutton 1589-1595
• Tobias Matthew 1595-1606
• William James 1606-1617
• Richard Neile 1617-1627
• George Monteigne 1628

Lord Crew's arms has a Baron's coronet, but as Bishop of Durham he showed an Earl's coronet too

• John Howson 1628-1632
• Thomas Morton 1632-1659
• John Cosin 1660-1672
• Nathaniel Crewe 1674-1722
• William Talbot 1722-1730
• Edward Chandler 1730-1750
• Joseph Butler 1750-1752
• Richard Trevor 1752-1771
• John Egerton 1771-1787
• Thomas Thurlow 1787-1791
• Shute Barrington 1791-1826
• William Van Mildert 1826-1836

Bishops (since 1836)

• Edward Maltby 1836-1856
• Charles Longley 1856-1860
• Henry Villiers 1860-1861
• Charles Baring 1861-1879
• Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1879-1889
• Brooke Westcott 1890-1901
• Handley Moule 1901-1920
• Herbert Hensley Henson 1920-1939
• Alwyn Williams 1939-1952
• Arthur Michael Ramsey 1952-1956
• Maurice Harland 1956-1966
• Ian Ramsey 1966-1972
• John Habgood 1973-1983
• David Edward Jenkins 1984-1994
• Michael Turnbull 1994-2003
• Nicholas Thomas Wright since 2003

References

• British History Online Bishops of Durham 1066-1300 accessed on October 25, 2007
• Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961