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Somerset">Bath</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wells,_Somerset" title="Wells, Somerset">Wells</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 95%; line-height: 110%; background-color: #9b0989; color: white;">Bishopric</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 95%; line-height: 110%; color: white; background-color: #333399;">anglican</th></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="padding-bottom: 0.4em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Diocese_of_Bath_and_Wells_arms.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Coat of arms of the {{{name}}}" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Diocese_of_Bath_and_Wells_arms.svg/200px-Diocese_of_Bath_and_Wells_arms.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="268" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Diocese_of_Bath_and_Wells_arms.svg/300px-Diocese_of_Bath_and_Wells_arms.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Diocese_of_Bath_and_Wells_arms.svg/400px-Diocese_of_Bath_and_Wells_arms.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="491" data-file-height="657" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Arms of the Bishop of Bath and Wells: <i>Azure, a saltire per saltire quarterly quartered or and argent</i><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Incumbent:<br /><a href="/wiki/Michael_Beasley_(bishop)" title="Michael Beasley (bishop)">Michael Beasley</a></b></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FADA5E;">Location</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_province" title="Ecclesiastical province">Ecclesiastical province</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canterbury" title="Province of Canterbury">Canterbury</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bishop%27s_Palace,_Wells" title="Bishop's Palace, Wells">Bishop's Palace, Wells</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FADA5E;">Information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First holder</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Athelm" title="Athelm">Athelm</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">909</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Diocese</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Bath_and_Wells" title="Diocese of Bath and Wells">Bath and Wells</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cathedral</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wells_Cathedral" title="Wells Cathedral">Wells Cathedral</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FADA5E;">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bathandwells.org.uk">www<wbr />.bathandwells<wbr />.org<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Bishop of Bath and Wells</b> heads the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a> <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Bath_and_Wells" title="Diocese of Bath and Wells">Diocese of Bath and Wells</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canterbury" title="Province of Canterbury">Province of Canterbury</a> in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>. </p><p>The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a> and a small area of <a href="/wiki/Dorset" title="Dorset">Dorset</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Cathedra" title="Cathedra">Episcopal seat</a> is located in the <a href="/wiki/Wells_Cathedral" title="Wells Cathedral">Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew</a> in the city of <a href="/wiki/Wells,_Somerset" title="Wells, Somerset">Wells</a> in Somerset. </p><p>The bishop is one of two (the other is the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Durham" title="Bishop of Durham">Bishop of Durham</a>) who escort the sovereign at the <a href="/wiki/Coronation_of_the_British_monarch" title="Coronation of the British monarch">coronation</a>. </p><p>The Bishop's residence is <a href="/wiki/Bishop%27s_Palace,_Wells" title="Bishop's Palace, Wells">The Palace</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wells,_Somerset" title="Wells, Somerset">Wells</a>. In late 2013 the <a href="/wiki/Church_Commissioners" title="Church Commissioners">Church Commissioners</a> announced that they were purchasing the <a href="/wiki/The_Old_Rectory,_Croscombe" title="The Old Rectory, Croscombe">Old Rectory</a>, a Grade II-listed building in <a href="/wiki/Croscombe" title="Croscombe">Croscombe</a> for the Bishop's residence.<sup id="cite_ref-900k_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-900k-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However this decision was widely opposed,<sup id="cite_ref-petition_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-petition-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including by the Diocese,<sup id="cite_ref-split_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-split-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-notsupport_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-notsupport-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in May 2014 was overturned by a committee of the <a href="/wiki/Archbishops%27_Council" title="Archbishops' Council">Archbishops' Council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-overrule_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overrule-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Bath_and_Wells" title="Diocese of Bath and Wells">Diocese of Bath and Wells</a></div> <p>Somerset originally came under the authority of the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Sherborne" title="Bishop of Sherborne">Bishop of Sherborne</a>, but <a href="/wiki/Wells,_Somerset" title="Wells, Somerset">Wells</a> became the seat of its own <b>Bishop of Wells</b> from 909. King <a href="/wiki/William_Rufus" class="mw-redirect" title="William Rufus">William Rufus</a> granted Bath to a royal physician, <a href="/wiki/John_of_Tours" title="John of Tours">John of Tours</a>, Bishop of Wells and Abbot of Bath, who was permitted to move his episcopal seat for <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a> from Wells to <a href="/wiki/Bath,_Somerset" title="Bath, Somerset">Bath</a> in 1090, thereby becoming the first <b>Bishop of Bath</b>. He planned and began a much larger church as <a href="/wiki/Bath_Abbey" title="Bath Abbey">his cathedral</a>, to which was attached a priory, with the bishop's palace beside it. </p><p>In 1197 Bishop <a href="/wiki/Savaric_FitzGeldewin" title="Savaric FitzGeldewin">Savaric FitzGeldewin</a> officially moved his seat to <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey" title="Glastonbury Abbey">Glastonbury Abbey</a> with the approval of <a href="/wiki/Pope_Celestine_III" title="Pope Celestine III">Pope Celestine III</a>. However, the monks there would not accept their new <b>Bishop of Glastonbury</b> and the title of <b>Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury</b> was used until the Glastonbury claim was abandoned in 1219. His successor, <a href="/wiki/Jocelin_of_Wells" title="Jocelin of Wells">Jocelin of Wells</a>, then returned to Bath, again under the title, <b>Bishop of Bath</b>. The official episcopal title became <b>Bishop of Bath and Wells</b> under a Papal ruling of 3 January 1245. </p><p>By the 15th century Bath Abbey was badly dilapidated. <a href="/wiki/Oliver_King" title="Oliver King">Oliver King</a>, Bishop of Bath and Wells, decided in 1500 to rebuild it on a smaller scale. The new abbey-church was completed just a few years before Bath Priory was dissolved in 1539. Then <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a> considered this new church redundant, and it was offered to the people of Bath to form their parish church; but they did not buy it, and it was stripped of its glass and lead.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last bishop in communion with Rome was deprived in 1559 but the succession of bishops has continued to the present day. </p><p>The diocese and the episcopate are today part of the <a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglican Communion</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_bishops">List of bishops</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: List of bishops"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-Reformation_bishops">Pre-Reformation bishops</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pre-Reformation bishops"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="width:95%;" border="1" cellpadding="2"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;">Bishops of Wells </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">From </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">Until </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 30%;">Incumbent </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 45%;">Notes </th></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 909</span> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 923</span>–925 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Athelm" title="Athelm">Athelm</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly a <a href="/wiki/Monk" title="Monk">monk</a> at <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey" title="Glastonbury Abbey">Glastonbury Abbey</a>. <a href="/wiki/Consecration" class="mw-redirect" title="Consecration">Consecrated</a> circa 909. <a href="/wiki/Translation_(ecclesiastical)" title="Translation (ecclesiastical)">Translated</a> to <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Canterbury</a> between 923 and September 925. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 923</span>–925 </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 926</span>–928 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Wulfhelm" title="Wulfhelm">Wulfhelm</a></b> </td> <td>Consecrated between circa 923 and 925. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Canterbury</a> between January 926 and 928. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 926</span>–928 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">937 or 938 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Alphege_of_Wells" title="Alphege of Wells">Alphege</a></b> </td> <td>Consecrated between January 926 and 928. Died in office. Also recorded as Ælfheah. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">937 or 938 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">956 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Wulfhelm_II" title="Wulfhelm II">Wulfhelm II</a></b> </td> <td>Consecrated in 937 or 938. Died in office. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">956 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">973 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Byrhthelm_(Bishop_of_Wells)" class="mw-redirect" title="Byrhthelm (Bishop of Wells)">Byrhthelm</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly a <a href="/wiki/Monk" title="Monk">monk</a> at <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey" title="Glastonbury Abbey">Glastonbury Abbey</a>. Consecrated in 956. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Canterbury</a> in 959, but deposed and translated back to Wells in the same year. Died in office on 15 May 973. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">973 or 974 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">975 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Cyneweard_of_Glastonbury" title="Cyneweard of Glastonbury">Cyneweard</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Abbot" title="Abbot">Abbot</a> of <a href="/wiki/Milton,_Dorset" title="Milton, Dorset">Milton</a>. Consecrated in 973 or 974. Died in office on 28 June 975. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 975</span>–979 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">996 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Sigar_of_Wells" title="Sigar of Wells">Sigar</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Abbot_of_Glastonbury" title="Abbot of Glastonbury">Abbot of Glastonbury</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 970</span>–975). Consecrated between 975 and 979. Died in office on 28 June 996. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">996 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">998 or 999 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfwine_of_Wells" title="Ælfwine of Wells">Ælfwine</a></b> </td> <td>Consecrated in 996 or 997. Died in office on 29 August in 998 or 999. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">998 or 999 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1013 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Lyfing_(Archbishop_of_Canterbury)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyfing (Archbishop of Canterbury)">Lyfing</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Abbot" title="Abbot">Abbot</a> of <a href="/wiki/Chertsey_Abbey" title="Chertsey Abbey">Chertsey Abbey</a>. Consecrated in 998 or 999. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Canterbury</a> in 1013. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 101</span>3–18 </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 102</span>1–24 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwine_of_Wells" title="Æthelwine of Wells">Aethelwine</a></b> </td> <td>Consecrated between 1013 and 1018. Expelled circa 1021/1023 and 1024 in favour of Brihtwine. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 102</span>1–24 </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><i>unknown</i> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Brihtwine" title="Brihtwine">Brihtwine</a></b> </td> <td>Expelled. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;"><i>unknown</i> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><i>unknown</i> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwine_of_Wells" title="Æthelwine of Wells">Aethelwine</a></b> (again) </td> <td>Restored but expelled a second time. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;"><i>unknown</i> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">before 1024 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Brihtwine" title="Brihtwine">Brihtwine</a></b> (again) </td> <td>Restored. Died in office before 1024. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">before 1024 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1033 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Merewith" title="Merewith">Merewith</a></b> </td> <td>Consecrated before 1024. Died in office on 11 or 12 April 1033. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1033 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1060 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Dudoc" class="mw-redirect" title="Dudoc">Dudoc</a></b> </td> <td>Consecrated on 11 June 1033. Died in office on 18 January 1060. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1061 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1088 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Gisa_(bishop_of_Wells)" title="Gisa (bishop of Wells)">Gisa</a></b> </td> <td>Previously <a href="/wiki/Chaplain" title="Chaplain">chaplain</a> to King <a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Confessor" title="Edward the Confessor">Edward the Confessor</a>. Elected bishop after 18 January 1060 and consecrated on 15 April 1061. Died in office in 1088. Also recorded as Giso. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1088 </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><i>1090</i> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/John_of_Tours" title="John of Tours">John of Tours</a></b> </td> <td>Consecrated Bishop of Wells in July 1088. Became Bishop of Bath when he moved the see from Wells to Bath in 1090. </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;">Bishops of Bath </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">From </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">Until </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 30%;">Incumbent </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 45%;">Notes </th></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;"><i>1090</i> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1122 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/John_of_Tours" title="John of Tours">John of Tours</a></b> </td> <td>Moved the see from Wells to Bath in 1090. Died in office between 29 and 30 December 1122. Also recorded as John de Villula. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1123 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1135 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Godfrey_of_Bath" title="Godfrey of Bath">Godfrey</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly chaplain to Queen Consort <a href="/wiki/Adeliza_of_Louvain" title="Adeliza of Louvain">Adeliza</a>. Nominated on 25 March and consecrated on 26 August 1135. Died in office on 16 August 1135. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1136 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1166 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Robert_of_Bath" title="Robert of Bath">Robert</a></b> </td> <td>Previously a monk at <a href="/wiki/Lewes_Priory" title="Lewes Priory">Lewes Priory</a>. Consecrated on 22 March and received possession of the <a href="/wiki/Temporalities" title="Temporalities">temporalities</a> circa 22 March 1136. Died in office on 31 August 1166. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1166 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1174 </td> <td colspan="2"><i>See vacant</i> </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1174 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1191 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Reginald_fitz_Jocelin" class="mw-redirect" title="Reginald fitz Jocelin">Reginald fitz Jocelin</a></b> </td> <td>Previously <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Wiltshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Archdeacon of Wiltshire">Archdeacon of Wiltshire</a>. Elected bishop in late April 1173 and consecrated on 23 June 1174. He became <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop-elect of Canterbury</a> on 27 November 1191, but before appeals against his election were heard, he died on 26 December 1191. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1192 </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><i>1197</i> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Savaric_FitzGeldewin" title="Savaric FitzGeldewin">Savaric FitzGeldewin</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Northampton" title="Archdeacon of Northampton">Archdeacon of Northampton</a> (1175–1192). Elected bishop by the monks of <a href="/wiki/Bath_Abbey" title="Bath Abbey">Bath Abbey</a> between 27 November and 26 December 1191 and consecrated on 20 September 1192. Also became <a href="/wiki/Abbot_of_Glastonbury" title="Abbot of Glastonbury">Abbot of Glastonbury</a> in 1193. He moved the <a href="/wiki/Cathedra" title="Cathedra">Episcopal seat</a> from <a href="/wiki/Bath_Abbey" title="Bath Abbey">Bath</a> to <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey" title="Glastonbury Abbey">Glastonbury</a> in 1197. </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;">Bishops of Bath and Glastonbury </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">From </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">Until </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 30%;">Incumbent </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 45%;">Notes </th></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;"><i>1197</i> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1205 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Savaric_FitzGeldewin" title="Savaric FitzGeldewin">Savaric FitzGeldewin</a></b> </td> <td>After moving the <a href="/wiki/Cathedra" title="Cathedra">Episcopal seat</a> from <a href="/wiki/Bath_Abbey" title="Bath Abbey">Bath</a> to <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey" title="Glastonbury Abbey">Glastonbury</a> in 1197, he was styled Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury. Died in office on 8 August 1205. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1206 </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><i>1219</i> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Jocelin_of_Wells" title="Jocelin of Wells">Jocelin of Wells</a></b> </td> <td>Previously <a href="/wiki/Canon_(priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon (priest)">Canon</a> of <a href="/wiki/Wells_Cathedral" title="Wells Cathedral">Wells</a>. Elected bishop on 3 February and consecrated on 28 May 1206. He was styled Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury until 1219, thereafter Bishop of Bath. </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;">Bishops of Bath </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">From </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">Until </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 30%;">Incumbent </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 45%;">Notes </th></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;"><i>1219</i> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1242 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Jocelin_of_Wells" title="Jocelin of Wells">Jocelin of Wells</a></b> </td> <td>Previously styled Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury until 1219, thereafter Bishop of Bath. Died in office on 19 November 1242. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1242 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1244 </td> <td colspan="2"><i>See vacant</i> </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1244 </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><i>1245</i> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Roger_of_Salisbury_(bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells)" title="Roger of Salisbury (bishop of Bath and Wells)">Roger of Salisbury</a></b><sup id="cite_ref-bishoproger_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bishoproger-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Precentor" title="Precentor">Precentor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Salisbury_Cathedral" title="Salisbury Cathedral">Salisbury</a> (1227–1244). Elected bishop by the monks of <a href="/wiki/Bath_Abbey" title="Bath Abbey">Bath Abbey</a> on 6 February 1243 and consecrated on 11 September 1244. Became Bishop of Bath and Wells on 3 January 1245. </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;">Bishops of Bath and Wells </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">From </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">Until </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 30%;">Incumbent </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 45%;">Notes </th></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;"><i>1245</i> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1247 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Roger_of_Salisbury_(bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells)" title="Roger of Salisbury (bishop of Bath and Wells)">Roger of Salisbury</a></b><sup id="cite_ref-bishoproger_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bishoproger-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Following a papal ruling, the episcopal title changed to Bishop of Bath and Wells on 3 January 1245. Died in office on 21 December 1247. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1248 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1264 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/William_of_Bitton_I" class="mw-redirect" title="William of Bitton I">William of Bitton I</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Wells" title="Archdeacon of Wells">Archdeacon of Wells</a> (1238–1248). Elected bishop before 24 February and consecrated on 14 June 1248. Died in office on 3 April 1264. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1265 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1266 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Walter_Giffard" title="Walter Giffard">Walter Giffard</a></b> </td> <td>Elected bishop on 22 May 1264 and consecrated on 4 January 1265. Also <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a> (1265–1266). Translated to <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_York" title="Archbishop of York">York</a> on 15 October 1266. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1267 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1274 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/William_of_Bitton_II" class="mw-redirect" title="William of Bitton II">William of Bitton II</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Wells" title="Archdeacon of Wells">Archdeacon of Wells</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 126</span>3–1267). Elected bishop on 10 February and consecrated after 17 April 1267. Died in office on 4 December 1274. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1275 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1292 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burnell" title="Robert Burnell">Robert Burnell</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_York" title="Archdeacon of York">Archdeacon of York</a> (1270–1275). Elected bishop on 23 January and consecrated on 1275. Became <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop-elect of Canterbury</a> (1278–1279) and <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Winchester" title="Bishop of Winchester">Bishop-elect of Winchester</a> (1280). Also <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a> (1274–1292). Died in office on 25 October 1292. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1293 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1302 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/William_of_March" title="William of March">William of March</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Dean_(Christianity)" title="Dean (Christianity)">Dean</a> of <a href="/wiki/St._Martin%27s-le-Grand" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Martin's-le-Grand">St. Martin's-le-Grand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Treasurer" title="Lord High Treasurer">Lord Treasurer</a>. Elected bishop on 28 January and consecrated on 17 May 1293. Died in office before 19 June 1302. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1302 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1308 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Walter_Haselshaw" title="Walter Haselshaw">Walter Haselshaw</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Wells" title="Dean of Wells">Dean of Wells</a> (1295–1302). Elected bishop on 7 August and consecrated on 4 November 1302. Died in office on 11 December 1308. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1309 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1329 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/John_Droxford" title="John Droxford">John Droxford</a></b> </td> <td>John Drokensford; formerly <a href="/wiki/Keeper_of_the_wardrobe" class="mw-redirect" title="Keeper of the wardrobe">Keeper of the wardrobe</a> and acting <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Treasurer" title="Lord High Treasurer">Lord Treasurer</a>. Elected bishop on 5 February and consecrated on 9 November 1309. Died in office on 9 May 1329 </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1329 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1363 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Ralph_of_Shrewsbury" title="Ralph of Shrewsbury">Ralph of Shrewsbury</a></b> </td> <td>Elected on 2 June and consecrated on 3 September 1329. Died in office on 14 August 1363. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1363 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1366 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/John_Barnet" title="John Barnet">John Barnet</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Worcester" title="Bishop of Worcester">Worcester</a>. Appointed on 24 December (or about 28 November) 1363 and received the <a href="/wiki/Temporalities" title="Temporalities">temporalities</a> on 6 April 1364. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Ely" title="Bishop of Ely">Ely</a> on 15 December 1366. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1367 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1386 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/John_Harewell" title="John Harewell">John Harewell</a></b> </td> <td>Previously Chancellor of <a href="/wiki/Gascony" title="Gascony">Gascony</a> and chaplain to the <a href="/wiki/Edward,_the_Black_Prince" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward, the Black Prince">Black Prince</a>. Appointed bishop on 14 December 1366 and consecrated on 7 March 1367. Died in office between 29 June and 14 July 1386. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1386 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1388 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Walter_Skirlaw" title="Walter Skirlaw">Walter Skirlaw</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Lichfield" title="Bishop of Lichfield">Coventry & Lichfield</a>. Appointed on 18 August and received the <a href="/wiki/Temporalities" title="Temporalities">temporalities</a> on 3 November 1386. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Durham" title="Bishop of Durham">Durham</a> on 3 April 1388. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1388 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1400 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Ergham" title="Ralph Ergham">Ralph Ergham</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Salisbury" title="Bishop of Salisbury">Salisbury</a>. Appointed on 3 April and received the temporalities on 13 September 1388. Died in office on 10 April 1400. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1400 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1401 </td> <td><i>(<a href="/wiki/Richard_Clifford" title="Richard Clifford">Richard Clifford</a>)</i> </td> <td>Appointed on 12 May 1400, but, before consecration, translated to <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Worcester" title="Bishop of Worcester">Worcester</a> on 19 August 1401. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1401 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1407 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Henry_Bowet" title="Henry Bowet">Henry Bowet</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Canon_(priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon (priest)">Canon</a> of <a href="/wiki/Wells_Cathedral" title="Wells Cathedral">Wells</a>. Appointed bishop on 19 August 1401 and consecrated on 20 November 1401. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_York" title="Archbishop of York">York</a> on 7 October 1407. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1407 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1424 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Bubwith" title="Nicholas Bubwith">Nicholas Bubwith</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Salisbury" title="Bishop of Salisbury">Salisbury</a>. Appointed on 7 October and received the <a href="/wiki/Temporalities" title="Temporalities">temporalities</a> on 2 December 1407. Died in office on 27 October 1424. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1424 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1443 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/John_Stafford_(bishop)" title="John Stafford (bishop)">John Stafford</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Wells" title="Dean of Wells">Dean of Wells</a> (1423–1424). Elected bishop between 14 November and 19 December 1424. Consecrated on 27 May 1425. Also <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Treasurer" title="Lord High Treasurer">Lord Treasurer</a> (1422–1426) and <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a> (1432–1450). Translated to <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Canterbury</a> on 13 May 1443. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1443 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1465 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Beckington" title="Thomas Beckington">Thomas Beckington</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Buckingham" title="Archdeacon of Buckingham">Archdeacon of Buckingham</a> (1424–1443). Appointed bishop on 24 July and consecrated on 13 October 1443. Also the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Privy_Seal" title="Lord Privy Seal">Keeper of the Privy Seal</a> (1443–1444). Died in office on 14 January 1465. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1465 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1491 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Robert_Stillington" title="Robert Stillington">Robert Stillington</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Taunton" title="Archdeacon of Taunton">Archdeacon of Taunton</a> (1450–1465). Appointed bishop on 30 October 1465 and consecrated on 16 March 1466. Also intermittently <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a> between 1460 and 1473. Died in office before 15 May 1491. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1492 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1494 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_Foxe_from_NPG.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Richard_Foxe_from_NPG.jpg/60px-Richard_Foxe_from_NPG.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="81" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Richard_Foxe_from_NPG.jpg/90px-Richard_Foxe_from_NPG.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Richard_Foxe_from_NPG.jpg/120px-Richard_Foxe_from_NPG.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="3238" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Foxe" title="Richard Foxe">Richard Foxe</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Exeter" title="Bishop of Exeter">Exeter</a>. Appointed on 8 February and received the <a href="/wiki/Temporalities" title="Temporalities">temporalities</a> on 4 May 1492. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Durham" title="Bishop of Durham">Durham</a> on 30 July 1494. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1495 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1503 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Oliver_King" title="Oliver King">Oliver King</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Exeter" title="Bishop of Exeter">Exeter</a>. Appointed on 6 November 1495 and received the temporalities on 6 January 1496. Died in office before 1503. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1504 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1518 </td> <td>Cardinal <b><a href="/wiki/Adriano_Castellesi" title="Adriano Castellesi">Adriano Castellesi</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Hereford" title="Bishop of Hereford">Hereford</a>. Appointed on 2 August and received possession of the temporalities on 13 October 1504. Deprived of the see by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Leo_X" title="Pope Leo X">Pope Leo X</a> on 5 July 1518. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1518 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1523 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cardinal_Thomas_Wolsey.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Cardinal_Thomas_Wolsey.jpg/60px-Cardinal_Thomas_Wolsey.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Cardinal_Thomas_Wolsey.jpg/91px-Cardinal_Thomas_Wolsey.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Cardinal_Thomas_Wolsey.jpg/121px-Cardinal_Thomas_Wolsey.jpg 2x" data-file-width="781" data-file-height="944" /></a></span> Cardinal <b><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wolsey" title="Thomas Wolsey">Thomas Wolsey</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_York" title="Archbishop of York">Archbishop of York</a> (1514–1530) and <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a> (1515–1529). Appointed <i><a href="/wiki/In_commendam" title="In commendam">in commendam</a></i> the see of Bath and Wells on 27 July 1518, but exchanged it to the see of <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Durham" title="Bishop of Durham">Durham</a> on 26 March 1523. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align:center;" colspan="4"><b>Sources:</b><sup id="cite_ref-bhogreenway_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bhogreenway-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bhojones_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bhojones-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bishops_during_the_Reformation">Bishops during the Reformation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Bishops during the Reformation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="width:95%;" border="1" cellpadding="2"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;">Bishops of Bath and Wells during the Reformation </th></tr> <tr align="left"> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">From </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">Until </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 30%;">Incumbent </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 45%;">Notes </th></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1523 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1541 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/John_Clerk_(bishop)" title="John Clerk (bishop)">John Clerk</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Master_of_the_Rolls" title="Master of the Rolls">Master of the Rolls</a> (1522–1523) and <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Windsor" title="Dean of Windsor">Dean of Windsor</a> (1519–1523). Appointed bishop on 26 March and consecrated on 6 December 1523. Accepted <a href="/wiki/Royal_supremacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal supremacy">royal supremacy</a> in 1534. Died in office on 31 January 1541. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1541 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1547 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/William_Knight_(bishop)" title="William Knight (bishop)">William Knight</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_(England)" title="Secretary of State (England)">Secretary of State</a> to <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a> (1526–1528) and <a href="/wiki/Prebendary" title="Prebendary">Prebendary</a> of <a href="/wiki/Old_St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="Old St Paul's Cathedral">St Paul's</a> (1517–1541). Nominated bishop on 9 April and consecrated on 29 May 1541. Died in office on 29 September 1547. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1548 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1553 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/William_Barlow_(bishop_of_Chichester)" title="William Barlow (bishop of Chichester)">William Barlow</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_St_David%27s" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of St David's">St David's</a>. Nominated on 3 February 1548. Resigned before 4 October 1553. Later became <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Chichester" title="Bishop of Chichester">Bishop of Chichester</a> in 1559. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1554 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1559 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Bourne" title="Gilbert Bourne">Gilbert Bourne</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Prebendary" title="Prebendary">Prebendary</a> of <a href="/wiki/Old_St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="Old St Paul's Cathedral">St Paul's</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lord_President_of_Wales_and_the_Marches" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord President of Wales and the Marches">Lord President of Wales and the Marches</a>. Nominated bishop on 13 March and consecrated on 1 April 1554. Deprived between 18 October 1559 and 11 January 1560. Died on 10 September 1569. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align:center;" colspan="4"><b>Sources:</b><sup id="cite_ref-bhojones_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bhojones-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bhohornbailey_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bhohornbailey-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-Reformation_bishops">Post-Reformation bishops</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Post-Reformation bishops"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="width:95%;" border="1" cellpadding="2"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;">Post-Reformation Bishops of Bath and Wells </th></tr> <tr align="left"> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">From </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;">Until </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 30%;">Incumbent </th> <th style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 45%;">Notes </th></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1560 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1581 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:No_image.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/60px-No_image.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/90px-No_image.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/120px-No_image.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1" data-file-height="1" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Berkeley" title="Gilbert Berkeley">Gilbert Berkeley</a></b> </td> <td>Nominated on 11 January and consecrated on 24 March 1560. Died in office on 2 November 1581. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1581 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1584 </td> <td colspan="2"><i>See vacant</i> </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1584 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1590 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bp_Thomas_Godwin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Bp_Thomas_Godwin.jpg/60px-Bp_Thomas_Godwin.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Bp_Thomas_Godwin.jpg/90px-Bp_Thomas_Godwin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Bp_Thomas_Godwin.jpg/120px-Bp_Thomas_Godwin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="519" data-file-height="685" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Godwin_(bishop)" title="Thomas Godwin (bishop)">Thomas Godwin</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Canterbury" title="Dean of Canterbury">Dean of Canterbury</a> (1567–1584). Nominated bishop on 25 July and consecrated on 13 September 1584. Died in office on 19 November 1590. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1590 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1592 </td> <td colspan="2"><i>See vacant</i> </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1593 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1608 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Portrait_of_John_Still,_Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells_(dated_1760%E2%80%931809)_by_Sylvester_Harding.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Portrait_of_John_Still%2C_Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells_%28dated_1760%E2%80%931809%29_by_Sylvester_Harding.jpg/60px-Portrait_of_John_Still%2C_Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells_%28dated_1760%E2%80%931809%29_by_Sylvester_Harding.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="81" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Portrait_of_John_Still%2C_Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells_%28dated_1760%E2%80%931809%29_by_Sylvester_Harding.jpg/90px-Portrait_of_John_Still%2C_Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells_%28dated_1760%E2%80%931809%29_by_Sylvester_Harding.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Portrait_of_John_Still%2C_Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells_%28dated_1760%E2%80%931809%29_by_Sylvester_Harding.jpg/120px-Portrait_of_John_Still%2C_Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells_%28dated_1760%E2%80%931809%29_by_Sylvester_Harding.jpg 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="295" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/John_Still" title="John Still">John Still</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/List_of_Masters_of_Trinity_College,_Cambridge" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Masters of Trinity College, Cambridge">Master of Trinity College, Cambridge</a> (1577–1593). Nominated bishop on 13 January and consecrated on 11 February 1593. Died in office on 26 February 1608. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1608 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1616 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bp_James_Montagu,_c1608-16.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Bp_James_Montagu%2C_c1608-16.jpg/60px-Bp_James_Montagu%2C_c1608-16.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Bp_James_Montagu%2C_c1608-16.jpg/90px-Bp_James_Montagu%2C_c1608-16.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Bp_James_Montagu%2C_c1608-16.jpg/120px-Bp_James_Montagu%2C_c1608-16.jpg 2x" data-file-width="481" data-file-height="685" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/James_Montague_(bishop)" title="James Montague (bishop)">James Montague</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Worcester" title="Dean of Worcester">Dean of Worcester</a> (1604–1608). Nominated bishop on 21 March and consecrated on 17 April 1608. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Winchester" title="Bishop of Winchester">Winchester</a> on 4 October 1616. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1616 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1626 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arthur_Lake_by_Richard_Greenbury.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Arthur_Lake_by_Richard_Greenbury.jpg/60px-Arthur_Lake_by_Richard_Greenbury.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="69" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Arthur_Lake_by_Richard_Greenbury.jpg/90px-Arthur_Lake_by_Richard_Greenbury.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Arthur_Lake_by_Richard_Greenbury.jpg/120px-Arthur_Lake_by_Richard_Greenbury.jpg 2x" data-file-width="817" data-file-height="944" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Lake_(bishop)" title="Arthur Lake (bishop)">Arthur Lake</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Worcester" title="Dean of Worcester">Dean of Worcester</a> (1608–1616). Elected on 17 October and consecrated on 8 December 1616. Died in office on 4 May 1626. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1626 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1628 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Laud.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/William_Laud.jpg/60px-William_Laud.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/William_Laud.jpg/90px-William_Laud.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/William_Laud.jpg/120px-William_Laud.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1159" data-file-height="1536" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/William_Laud" title="William Laud">William Laud</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_St_David%27s" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of St David's">St David's</a>. Nominated bishop of Bath & Wells on 20 June and confirmed on 18 September 1626. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_London" title="Bishop of London">London</a> on 15 July 1628. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1628 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1629 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:No_image.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/60px-No_image.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/90px-No_image.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/120px-No_image.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1" data-file-height="1" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Mawe" title="Leonard Mawe">Leonard Mawe</a></b> </td> <td>Nominated on 14 July and consecrated on 7 September 1628. Also <a href="/wiki/List_of_Masters_of_Trinity_College,_Cambridge" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Masters of Trinity College, Cambridge">Master of Trinity College, Cambridge</a> (1625–1628). Died in office on 2 September 1629 </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1629 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1632 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bp_Walter_Curll.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Bp_Walter_Curll.jpg/60px-Bp_Walter_Curll.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Bp_Walter_Curll.jpg/90px-Bp_Walter_Curll.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Bp_Walter_Curll.jpg/120px-Bp_Walter_Curll.jpg 2x" data-file-width="563" data-file-height="685" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Walter_Curle" title="Walter Curle">Walter Curle</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Rochester" title="Bishop of Rochester">Rochester</a>. Elected on 29 October and confirmed on 4 December 1629. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Winchester" title="Bishop of Winchester">Winchester</a> on 16 November 1632. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1632 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1646 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bp_William_Piers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Bp_William_Piers.jpg/60px-Bp_William_Piers.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Bp_William_Piers.jpg/90px-Bp_William_Piers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Bp_William_Piers.jpg/120px-Bp_William_Piers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="572" data-file-height="685" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/William_Piers_(bishop)" title="William Piers (bishop)">William Piers</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Peterborough" title="Bishop of Peterborough">Peterborough</a>. Nominated on 19 November and confirmed on 13 December 1632. Deprived of the see when the English episcopy was abolished by Parliament on 9 October 1646. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1646 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1660 </td> <td colspan="2"><i>The see was abolished during the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England" title="Commonwealth of England">Commonwealth</a> and the <a href="/wiki/The_Protectorate" title="The Protectorate">Protectorate</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1660 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1670 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bp_William_Piers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Bp_William_Piers.jpg/60px-Bp_William_Piers.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Bp_William_Piers.jpg/90px-Bp_William_Piers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Bp_William_Piers.jpg/120px-Bp_William_Piers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="572" data-file-height="685" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/William_Piers_(bishop)" title="William Piers (bishop)">William Piers</a></b> (restored) </td> <td>Returned when the see was restored in 1660. Died in office on 30 April 1670. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1670 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1672 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bp_Robert_Creighton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Bp_Robert_Creighton.jpg/60px-Bp_Robert_Creighton.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Bp_Robert_Creighton.jpg/90px-Bp_Robert_Creighton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Bp_Robert_Creighton.jpg/120px-Bp_Robert_Creighton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="580" data-file-height="661" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Robert_Creighton" title="Robert Creighton">Robert Creighton</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Wells" title="Dean of Wells">Dean of Wells</a> (1660–1670). Nominated on 2 May and consecrated on 19 June 1670. Died in office on 20 November 1672. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1673 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1684 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Peter_Mews_c_Dahl.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Peter_Mews_c_Dahl.jpg/60px-Peter_Mews_c_Dahl.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="76" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Peter_Mews_c_Dahl.jpg/90px-Peter_Mews_c_Dahl.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Peter_Mews_c_Dahl.jpg/120px-Peter_Mews_c_Dahl.jpg 2x" data-file-width="631" data-file-height="800" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Peter_Mews" title="Peter Mews">Peter Mews</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Rochester" title="Dean of Rochester">Dean of Rochester</a> (1670–1673). Nominated on 23 November 1672 and consecrated 6 February 1673. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Winchester" title="Bishop of Winchester">Winchester</a> on 22 November 1684. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1685 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1690 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Ken_by_F._Scheffer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Thomas_Ken_by_F._Scheffer.jpg/60px-Thomas_Ken_by_F._Scheffer.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Thomas_Ken_by_F._Scheffer.jpg/90px-Thomas_Ken_by_F._Scheffer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Thomas_Ken_by_F._Scheffer.jpg/120px-Thomas_Ken_by_F._Scheffer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="662" data-file-height="800" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ken" title="Thomas Ken">Thomas Ken</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Canon_(priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon (priest)">Canon</a> of <a href="/wiki/Winchester_Cathedral" title="Winchester Cathedral">Winchester</a> (1669–1685). Nominated on 24 November 1684 and consecrated on 25 January 1685. Deprived of the see on 1 February 1690 for not taking the <a href="/wiki/Oaths_of_Allegiance_and_Supremacy_Act_1688" title="Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Act 1688">oaths</a> to the sovereigns. Died on 19 March 1711. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1691 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1703 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bp_Richard_Kidder.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Bp_Richard_Kidder.jpg/60px-Bp_Richard_Kidder.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Bp_Richard_Kidder.jpg/90px-Bp_Richard_Kidder.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Bp_Richard_Kidder.jpg/120px-Bp_Richard_Kidder.jpg 2x" data-file-width="565" data-file-height="685" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Kidder" title="Richard Kidder">Richard Kidder</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Peterborough" title="Dean of Peterborough">Dean of Peterborough</a> (1689–1691). Nominated on 11 June and consecrated on 30 August 1691. Died in office on 26 November 1703. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1704 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1727 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bp_George_Hooper.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Bp_George_Hooper.jpg/60px-Bp_George_Hooper.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="83" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Bp_George_Hooper.jpg/90px-Bp_George_Hooper.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Bp_George_Hooper.jpg/120px-Bp_George_Hooper.jpg 2x" data-file-width="576" data-file-height="800" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/George_Hooper_(bishop)" title="George Hooper (bishop)">George Hooper</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_St_Asaph" title="Bishop of St Asaph">St Asaph</a>. Nominated on 23 December 1703 and confirmed on 14 March 1704. Died in office on 6 September 1727. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1727 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1743 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bishop_John_Wynne.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Bishop_John_Wynne.jpg/60px-Bishop_John_Wynne.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Bishop_John_Wynne.jpg/90px-Bishop_John_Wynne.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Bishop_John_Wynne.jpg/120px-Bishop_John_Wynne.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="975" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/John_Wynne_(bishop)" title="John Wynne (bishop)">John Wynne</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_St_Asaph" title="Bishop of St Asaph">St Asaph</a>. Nominated on 19 September and confirmed on 11 November 1727. Died in office on 15 July 1743. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1743 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1773 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bp_Edward_Willes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Bp_Edward_Willes.jpg/60px-Bp_Edward_Willes.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Bp_Edward_Willes.jpg/90px-Bp_Edward_Willes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Bp_Edward_Willes.jpg/120px-Bp_Edward_Willes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="552" data-file-height="685" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Edward_Willes_(priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Willes (priest)">Edward Willes</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_St_David%27s" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of St David's">St David's</a>. Nominated on 13 September and confirmed on 12 December 1743. Died in office on 24 November 1773. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1774 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1802 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Som_bp_14_large.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Som_bp_14_large.jpg/60px-Som_bp_14_large.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="76" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Som_bp_14_large.jpg/90px-Som_bp_14_large.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Som_bp_14_large.jpg/120px-Som_bp_14_large.jpg 2x" data-file-width="544" data-file-height="685" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Charles_Moss_(bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells)" title="Charles Moss (bishop of Bath and Wells)">Charles Moss</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_St_David%27s" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of St David's">St David's</a>. Nominated on 23 April and confirmed on 2 June 1774. Died in office on 13 April 1802. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1802 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1824 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_Beadon_Abbott.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Richard_Beadon_Abbott.jpg/60px-Richard_Beadon_Abbott.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Richard_Beadon_Abbott.jpg/90px-Richard_Beadon_Abbott.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Richard_Beadon_Abbott.jpg/120px-Richard_Beadon_Abbott.jpg 2x" data-file-width="565" data-file-height="685" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Beadon" title="Richard Beadon">Richard Beadon</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Gloucester" title="Bishop of Gloucester">Gloucester</a>. Nominated on 27 April and confirmed on 2 June 1802. Died in office on 21 April 1824. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1824 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1845 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Henry_Law_by_William_Beechey.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/George_Henry_Law_by_William_Beechey.jpg/60px-George_Henry_Law_by_William_Beechey.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/George_Henry_Law_by_William_Beechey.jpg/90px-George_Henry_Law_by_William_Beechey.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/George_Henry_Law_by_William_Beechey.jpg/120px-George_Henry_Law_by_William_Beechey.jpg 2x" data-file-width="724" data-file-height="944" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/George_Henry_Law" title="George Henry Law">George Henry Law</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Chester" title="Bishop of Chester">Chester</a>. Nominated on 8 May and confirmed on 8 June 1824. Died in office on 22 September 1845. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1845 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1854 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_Bagot_by_HW_Pickersgill.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Richard_Bagot_by_HW_Pickersgill.jpg/60px-Richard_Bagot_by_HW_Pickersgill.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Richard_Bagot_by_HW_Pickersgill.jpg/90px-Richard_Bagot_by_HW_Pickersgill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Richard_Bagot_by_HW_Pickersgill.jpg/120px-Richard_Bagot_by_HW_Pickersgill.jpg 2x" data-file-width="970" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bagot_(bishop)" title="Richard Bagot (bishop)">Richard Bagot</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Oxford" title="Bishop of Oxford">Oxford</a>. Nominated on 15 October and confirmed on 12 November 1845. Died in office on 15 May 1854. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1854 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1869 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bp_Lord_Auckland.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Bp_Lord_Auckland.jpg/60px-Bp_Lord_Auckland.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Bp_Lord_Auckland.jpg/90px-Bp_Lord_Auckland.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Bp_Lord_Auckland.jpg/120px-Bp_Lord_Auckland.jpg 2x" data-file-width="566" data-file-height="685" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Robert_Eden,_3rd_Baron_Auckland" title="Robert Eden, 3rd Baron Auckland">The Lord Auckland</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Sodor_and_Man" title="Bishop of Sodor and Man">Bishop of Sodor and Man</a>. Nominated on 2 June and confirmed on 1 July 1854. Resigned as bishop on 6 September 1869 and died on 25 April 1870. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1869 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1894 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lord_Arthur_C_Hervey_by_SA_Walker.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Lord_Arthur_C_Hervey_by_SA_Walker.jpg/60px-Lord_Arthur_C_Hervey_by_SA_Walker.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Lord_Arthur_C_Hervey_by_SA_Walker.jpg/90px-Lord_Arthur_C_Hervey_by_SA_Walker.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Lord_Arthur_C_Hervey_by_SA_Walker.jpg/120px-Lord_Arthur_C_Hervey_by_SA_Walker.jpg 2x" data-file-width="348" data-file-height="477" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Lord_Arthur_Hervey" title="Lord Arthur Hervey">Lord Arthur Hervey</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Sudbury" title="Archdeacon of Sudbury">Archdeacon of Sudbury</a> (1862–1869). Nominated on 11 November and consecrated 21 December 1869. Died in office on 9 June 1894. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1894 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1921 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Kennion.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/George_Kennion.jpg/60px-George_Kennion.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/George_Kennion.jpg/90px-George_Kennion.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/George_Kennion.jpg/120px-George_Kennion.jpg 2x" data-file-width="637" data-file-height="1003" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/George_Kennion" title="George Kennion">George Kennion</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Diocese_of_Adelaide" title="Anglican Diocese of Adelaide">Adelaide</a> in Australia. Nominated on 24 August and confirmed on 17 October 1894. Resigned on 1 August 1921 and died on 19 May 1922. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1921 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1937 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:No_image.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/60px-No_image.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/90px-No_image.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/120px-No_image.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1" data-file-height="1" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Basil_Wynne_Willson" title="Basil Wynne Willson">Basil Wynne Willson</a></b> </td> <td>Nominated on 6 October and consecrated on 1 November 1921. Resigned on 1 October 1937 and died on 15 October 1946. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1937 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1943 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bp_Francis_Underhill.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Bp_Francis_Underhill.jpg/60px-Bp_Francis_Underhill.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Bp_Francis_Underhill.jpg/90px-Bp_Francis_Underhill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Bp_Francis_Underhill.jpg/120px-Bp_Francis_Underhill.jpg 2x" data-file-width="529" data-file-height="685" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Francis_Underhill" title="Francis Underhill">Francis Underhill</a></b> </td> <td>Nominated on 6 October and consecrated on 30 November 1937. Died in office on 24 January 1943. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1943 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1945 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Archbishop_John_William_Charles_Wand.tiff" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Archbishop_John_William_Charles_Wand.tiff/lossy-page1-60px-Archbishop_John_William_Charles_Wand.tiff.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="81" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Archbishop_John_William_Charles_Wand.tiff/lossy-page1-90px-Archbishop_John_William_Charles_Wand.tiff.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Archbishop_John_William_Charles_Wand.tiff/lossy-page1-120px-Archbishop_John_William_Charles_Wand.tiff.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4458" data-file-height="6000" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/William_Wand" title="William Wand">William Wand</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Diocese_of_Brisbane" title="Anglican Diocese of Brisbane">Brisbane</a>. Nominated on 23 September and confirmed on 27 October 1943. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_London" title="Bishop of London">London</a> on 22 August 1945. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1946 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1960 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:No_image.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/60px-No_image.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/90px-No_image.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/120px-No_image.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1" data-file-height="1" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Harold_Bradfield" title="Harold Bradfield">Harold Bradfield</a></b> </td> <td>Nominated on 5 March and consecrated on 1 May 1946. Died in office on 1 May 1960. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1960 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1975 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:No_image.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/60px-No_image.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/90px-No_image.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/120px-No_image.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1" data-file-height="1" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Edward_Henderson_(bishop)" title="Edward Henderson (bishop)">Edward Henderson</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Tewkesbury" title="Bishop of Tewkesbury">Tewkesbury</a>. Nominated on 1 July and confirmed 19 July 1960. Resigned on 31 May 1975 and died in 1986. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1975 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1986 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:No_image.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/60px-No_image.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/90px-No_image.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/120px-No_image.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1" data-file-height="1" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/John_Bickersteth" title="John Bickersteth">John Bickersteth</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Warrington" title="Bishop of Warrington">Warrington</a>. Nominated on 15 October and confirmed on 12 December 1975. Also <a href="/wiki/Clerk_of_the_Closet" title="Clerk of the Closet">Clerk of the Closet</a> (1979–1989). Retired in 1986. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1986 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">1991 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Archbishop_george_carey1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Archbishop_george_carey1.jpg/60px-Archbishop_george_carey1.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Archbishop_george_carey1.jpg/90px-Archbishop_george_carey1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Archbishop_george_carey1.jpg/120px-Archbishop_george_carey1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="414" data-file-height="534" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/George_Carey" title="George Carey">George Carey</a></b> </td> <td>Formerly <a href="/wiki/Principal_(academia)" title="Principal (academia)">Principal</a> of <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Bristol" title="Trinity College, Bristol">Trinity Theological College, Bristol</a> (1982–1988). Nominated and consecrated bishop in 1986. Translated to <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Canterbury</a> in 1991. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">1991 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">2001 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:No_image.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/60px-No_image.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/90px-No_image.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/120px-No_image.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1" data-file-height="1" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Jim_Thompson_(bishop)" title="Jim Thompson (bishop)">Jim Thompson</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Stepney" title="Bishop of Stepney">Stepney</a>. Nominated and confirmed in 1991. Retired in 2001 and died in 2003. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"> <td style="text-align: center;">2002 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">2013 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:No_image.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/60px-No_image.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/90px-No_image.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/120px-No_image.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1" data-file-height="1" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Peter_Price_(bishop)" title="Peter Price (bishop)">Peter Price</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Kingston-upon-Thames" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames">Kingston-upon-Thames</a>. Nominated in 2001 and enthroned in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Retired on 30 June 2013. </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white;"> <td style="text-align: center;">4 March 2014 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">May 2021 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Peter_Hancock_installation_7_June_2014_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Peter_Hancock_installation_7_June_2014_%28cropped%29.jpg/60px-Peter_Hancock_installation_7_June_2014_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="59" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Peter_Hancock_installation_7_June_2014_%28cropped%29.jpg/90px-Peter_Hancock_installation_7_June_2014_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Peter_Hancock_installation_7_June_2014_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-Peter_Hancock_installation_7_June_2014_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="571" data-file-height="558" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hancock" title="Peter Hancock">Peter Hancock</a></b> </td> <td>Translated from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Basingstoke" title="Bishop of Basingstoke">Basingstoke</a>, 4 March 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-hanc-conf_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hanc-conf-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nominated in December 2013 and installed on 7 June 2014;<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> retired May 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-hanc-ret_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hanc-ret-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <p><br /> </p> </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2"> <td style="text-align: center;">2022 </td> <td style="text-align: center;">onwards </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:No_image.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/60px-No_image.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/90px-No_image.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/120px-No_image.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1" data-file-height="1" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Michael_Beasley_(bishop)" title="Michael Beasley (bishop)">Michael Beasley</a></b> </td> <td>Previously <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Hertford" title="Bishop of Hertford">Bishop of Hertford</a>. Election confirmed on 29 June 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top" style="background-color: white"> <td style="text-align:center;" colspan="4"><b>Sources:</b><sup id="cite_ref-bhohornbailey_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bhohornbailey-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Assistant_bishops">Assistant bishops</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Assistant bishops"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Among those who have served as assistant bishops of the diocese are: </p> <ul><li>4 October 1852 – 10 May 1853 (res.): <a href="/wiki/George_Spencer_(bishop)" title="George Spencer (bishop)">George Spencer</a>, commissary during Bagot's illness, and former <a href="/wiki/Bishop_in_Madras" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop in Madras">Bishop in Madras</a><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>late 1860s (Eden's illness): <a href="/wiki/James_Chapman_(bishop)" title="James Chapman (bishop)">James Chapman</a>, Coadjutor-Bishop, Rector of <a href="/wiki/Wootton_Courtenay" title="Wootton Courtenay">Wootton Courtenay</a>, a Prebendary of Wells and former <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Colombo" title="Bishop of Colombo">Bishop of Colombo</a><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1891–1900:<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Charles_Bromby" title="Charles Bromby">Charles Bromby</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Bishop_of_Tasmania" title="Anglican Bishop of Tasmania">Bishop of Tasmania</a> (lived at <a href="/wiki/Church_of_All_Saints,_Clifton" title="Church of All Saints, Clifton">Clifton</a> with <a href="/wiki/Henry_Bromby" title="Henry Bromby">his son</a>)</li> <li>1931 – 1942 (d.): <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Salis" title="Charles de Salis">Charles de Salis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Taunton" title="Archdeacon of Taunton">Archdeacon of Taunton</a> until 1938, and former <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Taunton" title="Bishop of Taunton">Bishop of Taunton</a><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1940 – 1943 (res.): <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Sara" title="Edmund Sara">Edmund Sara</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Coadjutor" title="Coadjutor">Coadjutor</a> <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Jamaica" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Jamaica">Bishop of Jamaica</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Assistant_Bishop_of_Hereford" class="mw-redirect" title="Assistant Bishop of Hereford">Assistant Bishop of Hereford</a><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1950–1967 (ret.): <a href="/wiki/Fabian_Jackson" title="Fabian Jackson">Fabian Jackson</a>, Rector of <a href="/wiki/Batcombe,_Somerset" title="Batcombe, Somerset">Batcombe</a> and former <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Trinidad" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Trinidad">Bishop of Trinidad</a><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1956 – 1973 (ret.): <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Wilson_(bishop)" title="Douglas Wilson (bishop)">Douglas Wilson</a>, Canon Treasurer of Wells and former <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Trinidad" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Trinidad">Bishop of Trinidad</a><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Blackadder" title="Blackadder">Blackadder</a>,</i> <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> <a href="/wiki/Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">historical</a> <a href="/wiki/Sitcom" title="Sitcom">sitcom</a>, features a fictional bishop played by <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Lacey" title="Ronald Lacey">Ronald Lacey</a> of this title in the second series' fourth episode "<a href="/wiki/Money_(Blackadder)" title="Money (Blackadder)">Money</a>", in which the bishop is portrayed as an obese, blasphemous, self-confessed pervert who eats children.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python" title="Monty Python">Monty Python</a></i> features two skits in which the Bishop of this title is mentioned.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio">Radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Absolute_Power_(comedy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Absolute Power (comedy)"><i>Absolute Power</i></a>, BBC radio comedy features such a Bishop. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature">Literature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a>'s 2008 work <i><a href="/wiki/The_Graveyard_Book" title="The Graveyard Book">The Graveyard Book</a></i> features a character named the Bishop of Bath and Wells – he is one of a trio of ghouls who spirit the main character away.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ralph of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bath and Wells, appears as a character in the 1994 fantasy novel <i>The Dragon, The Earl and The Troll</i>, by Gordon Dickson. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). <i>Handbook of British Chronology</i> (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). 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href="/wiki/Wulfhelm" title="Wulfhelm">Wulfhelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alphege_of_Wells" title="Alphege of Wells">Alphege</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfhelm_II" title="Wulfhelm II">Wulfhelm II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byrhthelm_(Bishop_of_Wells)" class="mw-redirect" title="Byrhthelm (Bishop of Wells)">Byrhthelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyneweard_of_Glastonbury" title="Cyneweard of Glastonbury">Cyneweard of Glastonbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigar_of_Wells" title="Sigar of Wells">Sigar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfwine_of_Wells" title="Ælfwine of Wells">Ælfwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyfing_(Archbishop_of_Canterbury)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyfing (Archbishop of Canterbury)">Lyfing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwine_of_Wells" title="Æthelwine of Wells">Aethelwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihtwine" title="Brihtwine">Brihtwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwine_of_Wells" title="Æthelwine of Wells">Aethelwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihtwine" title="Brihtwine">Brihtwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merewith" title="Merewith">Merewith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudoc" class="mw-redirect" title="Dudoc">Dudoc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gisa_(Bishop_of_Wells)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gisa (Bishop of Wells)">Gisa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_of_Tours" title="John of Tours">John of Tours</a> <i>(became Bishop of Bath)</i></li> <li><i>see removed to Bath</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bath</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>John of Tours <i>(previously Bishop of Wells)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godfrey_of_Bath" title="Godfrey of Bath">Godfrey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_of_Bath" title="Robert of Bath">Robert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_fitz_Jocelin" class="mw-redirect" title="Reginald fitz Jocelin">Reginald fitz Jocelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Savaric_FitzGeldewin" title="Savaric FitzGeldewin">Savaric FitzGeldewin</a> <i>(became Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury)</i></li> <li><i>see </i>de jure<i> removed to Glastonbury</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bath & Glastonbury</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Savaric FitzGeldewin <i>(previously Bishop of Bath)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jocelin_of_Wells" title="Jocelin of Wells">Jocelin of Wells</a> <i>(became Bishop of Bath)</i></li> <li><i>Glastonbury claim abandoned</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bath</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Jocelin of Wells <i>(previously Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_of_Salisbury_(Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger of Salisbury (Bishop of Bath and Wells)">Roger of Salisbury</a> <i>(became Bishop of Bath and Wells)</i></li> <li><i>see became <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bath and Wells</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Medieval</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>see renamed from <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bath</a></i></li> <li>Roger of Salisbury <i>(previously Bishop of Bath)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_of_Bitton" title="William of Bitton">William of Bitton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Giffard" title="Walter Giffard">Walter Giffard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_of_Bitton_(nephew)" title="William of Bitton (nephew)">William of Bitton (nephew)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burnell" title="Robert Burnell">Robert Burnell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_of_March" title="William of March">William of March</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Haselshaw" title="Walter Haselshaw">Walter Haselshaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Droxford" title="John Droxford">John Droxford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_of_Shrewsbury" title="Ralph of Shrewsbury">Ralph of Shrewsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Barnet" title="John Barnet">John Barnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Harewell" title="John Harewell">John Harewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Skirlaw" title="Walter Skirlaw">Walter Skirlaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Ergham" title="Ralph Ergham">Ralph Ergham</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Richard_Clifford" title="Richard Clifford">Richard Clifford</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Bowet" title="Henry Bowet">Henry Bowet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Bubwith" title="Nicholas Bubwith">Nicholas Bubwith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stafford_(bishop)" title="John Stafford (bishop)">John Stafford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Beckington" title="Thomas Beckington">Thomas Beckington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Stillington" title="Robert Stillington">Robert Stillington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Foxe" title="Richard Foxe">Richard Foxe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_King" title="Oliver King">Oliver King</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Early modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adriano_Castellesi" title="Adriano Castellesi">Adriano Castellesi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wolsey" title="Thomas Wolsey">Thomas Wolsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Clerk_(bishop)" title="John Clerk (bishop)">John Clerk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Knight_(bishop)" title="William Knight (bishop)">William Knight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Barlow_(bishop_of_Chichester)" title="William Barlow (bishop of Chichester)">William Barlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Bourne" title="Gilbert Bourne">Gilbert Bourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Berkeley" title="Gilbert Berkeley">Gilbert Berkeley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Godwin_(bishop)" title="Thomas Godwin (bishop)">Thomas Godwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Still" title="John Still">John Still</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Montague_(bishop)" title="James Montague (bishop)">James Montague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Lake_(bishop)" title="Arthur Lake (bishop)">Arthur Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Laud" title="William Laud">William Laud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Mawe" title="Leonard Mawe">Leonard Mawe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Curle" title="Walter Curle">Walter Curle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Piers_(bishop)" title="William Piers (bishop)">William Piers</a></li> <li><i>Episcopacy abolished (<a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England" title="Commonwealth of England">Commonwealth</a>)</i></li> <li>William Piers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Creighton" title="Robert Creighton">Robert Creighton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Mews" title="Peter Mews">Peter Mews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ken" title="Thomas Ken">Thomas Ken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Kidder" title="Richard Kidder">Richard Kidder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Hooper_(bishop)" title="George Hooper (bishop)">George Hooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wynne_(bishop)" title="John Wynne (bishop)">John Wynne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Willes_(bishop)" title="Edward Willes (bishop)">Edward Willes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Moss_(bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells)" title="Charles Moss (bishop of Bath and Wells)">Charles Moss</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Beadon" title="Richard Beadon">Richard Beadon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Henry_Law" title="George Henry Law">George Henry Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bagot_(bishop)" title="Richard Bagot (bishop)">Richard Bagot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Eden,_3rd_Baron_Auckland" title="Robert Eden, 3rd Baron Auckland">Robert Eden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Arthur_Hervey" title="Lord Arthur Hervey">Lord Arthur Hervey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Kennion" title="George Kennion">George Kennion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basil_Wynne_Willson" title="Basil Wynne Willson">Basil Wynne Willson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Underhill" title="Francis Underhill">Francis Underhill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wand" title="William Wand">William Wand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Bradfield" title="Harold 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title="Bishop of Stepney">Stepney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Swindon" title="Bishop of Swindon">Swindon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Taunton" title="Bishop of Taunton">Taunton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Tewkesbury" title="Bishop of Tewkesbury">Tewkesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Thetford" title="Bishop of Thetford">Thetford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Tonbridge" title="Bishop of Tonbridge">Tonbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Warwick" title="Bishop of Warwick">Warwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Willesden" title="Bishop of Willesden">Willesden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Wolverhampton" title="Bishop of Wolverhampton">Wolverhampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Woolwich" title="Bishop of Woolwich">Woolwich</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Province_of_York" title="Province of York">York<br 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Leeds">Leeds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Liverpool" title="Bishop of Liverpool">Liverpool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Manchester" title="Bishop of Manchester">Manchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Newcastle_(England)" title="Bishop of Newcastle (England)">Newcastle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Sheffield" title="Bishop of Sheffield">Sheffield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Sodor_and_Man" title="Bishop of Sodor and Man">Sodor & Man</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Southwell_and_Nottingham" title="Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham">Southwell</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Suffragan_bishop" title="Suffragan bishop">Suffragan<br />bishops</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Berwick" title="Bishop of Berwick">Berwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Beverley" title="Bishop of Beverley">Beverley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Birkenhead" title="Bishop of Birkenhead">Birkenhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Bolton" title="Bishop of Bolton">Bolton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Bradford" title="Bishop of Bradford">Bradford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Burnley" title="Bishop of Burnley">Burnley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Doncaster" title="Bishop of Doncaster">Doncaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Huddersfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Huddersfield">Huddersfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Hull" title="Bishop of Hull">Hull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Jarrow" title="Bishop of Jarrow">Jarrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglican_Bishop_of_Lancaster" title="Anglican Bishop of Lancaster">Lancaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Middleton" title="Bishop of Middleton">Middleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Penrith" title="Bishop of Penrith">Penrith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglican_Bishop_of_Richmond" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican Bishop of Richmond">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Ripon" title="Bishop of Ripon">Ripon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Selby" title="Bishop of Selby">Selby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Sherwood" title="Bishop of Sherwood">Sherwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Stockport" title="Bishop of Stockport">Stockport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Wakefield" title="Bishop of Wakefield">Wakefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Warrington" title="Bishop of Warrington">Warrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Whitby" title="Bishop of Whitby">Whitby</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_to_the_Forces" title="Bishop to the Forces">Bishop to the Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_to_the_Archbishops_of_Canterbury_and_York" title="Bishop to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York">Bishop to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_the_Falkland_Islands" title="Bishop of the Falkland Islands">Bishop of the Falkland Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_to_HM_Prisons" title="Bishop to HM Prisons">Bishop to HM Prisons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spokesperson_bishops_in_the_Church_of_England" title="Spokesperson bishops in the Church of England">other spokesperson bishops</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_in_Wales_flag.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Church_in_Wales_flag.svg/20px-Church_in_Wales_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Church_in_Wales_flag.svg/30px-Church_in_Wales_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Church_in_Wales_flag.svg/40px-Church_in_Wales_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="894" data-file-height="447" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Church_in_Wales" title="Church in Wales">Church in Wales</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Wales" title="Archbishop of Wales">Archbishop of Wales</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Bangor" title="Bishop of Bangor">Bangor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Llandaff" title="Bishop of Llandaff">Llandaff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Monmouth" title="Bishop of Monmouth">Monmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_St_Asaph" title="Bishop of St Asaph">Saint Asaph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_St_Davids" title="Bishop of St Davids">Saint Davids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Swansea_and_Brecon" title="Bishop of Swansea and Brecon">Swansea & Brecon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Scotland.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/20px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/30px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/40px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a 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