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data-file-height="3132" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Church</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Diocese</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Canterbury" title="Diocese of Canterbury">Canterbury</a></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Installed</th><td class="infobox-data">November 1604</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Term ended</th><td class="infobox-data">2 November 1610</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Whitgift" title="John Whitgift">John Whitgift</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Abbot_(Archbishop_of_Canterbury)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Abbot (Archbishop of Canterbury)">George Abbot</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Orders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ordination</th><td class="infobox-data">1574<br />by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Cox_(bishop)" title="Richard Cox (bishop)">Richard Cox</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Consecration</th><td class="infobox-data">8 May 1597<br />by <a href="/wiki/John_Whitgift" title="John Whitgift">John Whitgift</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">1544<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Farnworth,_Widnes" class="mw-redirect" title="Farnworth, Widnes">Farnworth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">2 November 1610 (aged 66)<br /><a href="/wiki/Lambeth" title="Lambeth">Lambeth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Buried</th><td class="infobox-data">Lambeth</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Denomination</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Christ%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="Christ's College, Cambridge">Christ's College, Cambridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jesus_College,_Cambridge" title="Jesus College, Cambridge">Jesus College, Cambridge</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Richard Bancroft</b> (1544 – 2 November 1610) was an English churchman, <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> from 1604 to 1610 and "chief overseer" of the <a href="/wiki/King_James_Bible" class="mw-redirect" title="King James Bible">King James Bible</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Bancroft&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bancroft was born in September 1544 at <a href="/wiki/Farnworth,_Widnes" class="mw-redirect" title="Farnworth, Widnes">Farnworth</a>, now part of <a href="/wiki/Widnes,_Cheshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Widnes, Cheshire">Widnes, Cheshire</a>, second son of Mary [Curwen] and John Bancroft. His mother was the daughter of James Curwen and niece to <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Curwen" title="Hugh Curwen">Hugh Curwen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Dublin" title="Archbishop of Dublin">Archbishop of Dublin</a> from 1555 to 1567, then <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Oxford" title="Bishop of Oxford">Bishop of Oxford</a> until his death in November 1568.<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> </p><p>He was initially educated at the local <a href="/wiki/Grammar_school" title="Grammar school">grammar school</a>, founded by bishop <a href="/wiki/William_Smyth" title="William Smyth">William Smyth</a>, also from Farnworth.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became a scholar of <a href="/wiki/Christ%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="Christ's College, Cambridge">Christ's College, Cambridge</a> in 1563, and graduated <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a> in 1567, <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford,_Cambridge,_and_Dublin)" title="Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)">MA</a> in 1570 (at <a href="/wiki/Jesus_College,_Cambridge" title="Jesus College, Cambridge">Jesus College, Cambridge</a>), <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Divinity" title="Doctor of Divinity">DD</a> 1585.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bancroft was older than most students at Cambridge, reportedly due to money problems, and was apparently more successful at sports (wrestling, boxing and quarterstaff) than study. During his many years there, Bancroft was one the students chosen to meet Queen Elizabeth I when she visited the University. <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1564, his uncle Hugh obtained a <a href="/wiki/Sinecure" title="Sinecure">sinecure</a> for him at <a href="/wiki/St_Patrick%27s_Cathedral,_Dublin" title="St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin">St Patrick's, Dublin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ordained about that time, he was named chaplain to <a href="/wiki/Richard_Cox_(bishop)" title="Richard Cox (bishop)">Richard Cox</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Ely" title="Bishop of Ely">bishop of Ely</a>, and in 1575 was presented to the rectory of <a href="/wiki/Teversham" title="Teversham">Teversham</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire" title="Cambridgeshire">Cambridgeshire</a>. The next year he was one of the preachers to the university. </p><p>In 1584 he was made <a href="/wiki/Rector_(ecclesiastical)" title="Rector (ecclesiastical)">rector</a> of <a href="/wiki/St_Andrew,_Holborn" class="mw-redirect" title="St Andrew, Holborn">St Andrew, Holborn</a>. In 1585 he was appointed treasurer of <a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="St Paul's Cathedral">St Paul's Cathedral</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, and in 1586 was made a member of the ecclesiastical commission. On 9 February 1589 he preached at <a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="St Paul's Cathedral">Paul's Cross</a> a sermon, the substance of which was a passionate attack on the <a href="/wiki/Puritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan">Puritans</a>. He described their speeches and proceedings, caricatured their motives, denounced the exercise of the right of private judgment, and set forth the divine right of bishops in such strong language that <a href="/wiki/Francis_Knollys_(the_elder)" title="Francis Knollys (the elder)">Sir Francis Knollys</a>, the Puritanically inclined Treasurer to the Household, held it to amount to a threat against the supremacy of the crown.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the following year Bancroft was made a <a href="/wiki/Prebendary" title="Prebendary">prebendary</a> of St Paul's; he had been <a href="/wiki/Canon_(priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon (priest)">canon</a> of <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster</a> since 1587. He was chaplain successively to <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hatton" title="Christopher Hatton">Lord Chancellor Hatton</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Whitgift" title="John Whitgift">Archbishop Whitgift</a>. In June 1597, he was consecrated <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_London" title="Bishop of London">Bishop of London</a>; and from this time, in consequence of the age and incapacity for business of Archbishop Whitgift, he was virtually invested with the power of primate, and had the sole management of ecclesiastical affairs. Among the more noteworthy cases which fell under his direction were the <a href="/wiki/Marprelate_Controversy" title="Marprelate Controversy">proceedings</a> against "<a href="/wiki/Martin_Marprelate" title="Martin Marprelate">Martin Marprelate</a>", <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cartwright_(churchman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Cartwright (churchman)">Thomas Cartwright</a> and his friends, and <a href="/wiki/John_Penry" title="John Penry">John Penry</a>, whose "seditious writings" he caused to be intercepted and given up to the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Keeper" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Keeper">Lord Keeper</a>. </p><p>In 1600 he was sent on an embassy, with others, to <a href="/wiki/Emden" title="Emden">Emden</a>, for the purpose of settling certain matters in dispute between the <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Denmark" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Denmark">Danes</a>. This mission, however, failed. Bancroft was present at the death of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Queen Elizabeth</a>. </p><p>Bancroft died having never married, 2 November 1610. He was interred in the parish Church at Lambeth with a simple stone slab marking the grave. A keen reader, he left behind a library of over 6,000 volumes. <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> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Archbishop_of_Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Bancroft&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Archbishop of Canterbury"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In March 1604 Bancroft, on Whitgift's death, was appointed by royal writ president of convocation then assembled; and he there presented a book of canons collected by himself. It was adopted and received the royal approval, but was strongly opposed<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> and set aside by Parliament two months afterwards. In the following November he was elected successor to Whitgift in the see of <a href="/wiki/Canterbury" title="Canterbury">Canterbury</a>. He continued to show the same zeal and severity as before, and with so much success that <a href="/wiki/Edward_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Clarendon" title="Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon">Lord Clarendon</a>, writing in his praise, expressed the opinion that "if Bancroft had lived, he would quickly have extinguished all that fire in England which had been kindled at Geneva." </p><p>In 1608 he was chosen chancellor of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a>. One of his last public acts was a proposal laid before Parliament for improving the revenues of the Church, and a project for a college of controversial divinity at <a href="/wiki/Chelsea,_London" title="Chelsea, London">Chelsea</a>. In the last few months of his life he took part in the discussion about the consecration of certain Scottish bishops, and it was in pursuance of his advice that they were consecrated by several bishops of the English Church. By this act were laid the foundations of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Episcopal_Church" title="Scottish Episcopal Church">Scottish Episcopal Church</a>. Bancroft was "the chief overseer" of the <a href="/wiki/King_James_Bible" class="mw-redirect" title="King James Bible">authorized version of the Bible</a>. He died at <a href="/wiki/Lambeth_Palace" title="Lambeth Palace">Lambeth Palace</a> on 2 November 1610. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discovery_of_his_coffin">Discovery of his coffin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Bancroft&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Discovery of his coffin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2016, during the refurbishment of the <a href="/wiki/Garden_Museum" title="Garden Museum">Garden Museum</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is housed at the medieval church of St Mary-at-Lambeth,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 30 lead coffins were found; one with an archbishop's red and gold mitre on top of it.<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-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On one of these coffins, a metal plate served to identify it as being that of Bancroft.<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> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Bancroft&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Bancroft_(bishop)" title="John Bancroft (bishop)">John Bancroft</a>, his nephew and <a href="/wiki/Master_of_University_College,_Oxford" class="mw-redirect" title="Master of University College, Oxford">Master of University College, Oxford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Curwen" title="Hugh Curwen">Hugh Curwen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Dublin" title="Archbishop of Dublin">Archbishop of Dublin</a> 1555 to 1567, <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Oxford" title="Bishop of Oxford">Bishop of Oxford</a> 1567 to 1568</li></ul> <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=Richard_Bancroft&action=edit&section=5" 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 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(1693.) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=g8BjAAAAcAAJ">A Survey of the Pretended Holy Discipline</a> (in English). London: Richard Hodgkinson. This work is critical of the Puritan's doctrinal textbook, the <i>Disciplina</i>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp00236">Portraits of Richard Bancroft</a> at the <a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London" title="National Portrait Gallery, London">National Portrait Gallery, London</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FABE60;"><a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England titles</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Fletcher_(bishop)" title="Richard Fletcher (bishop)">Richard Fletcher</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_London" title="Bishop of London">Bishop 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Canterbury">Oda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfsige" title="Ælfsige">Ælfsige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byrhthelm_(bishop_of_Wells)" title="Byrhthelm (bishop of Wells)">Byrhthelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunstan" title="Dunstan">Dunstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelgar" title="Æthelgar">Æthelgar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigeric_(bishop)" title="Sigeric (bishop)">Sigeric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfric_of_Abingdon" title="Ælfric of Abingdon">Ælfric of Abingdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfheah_of_Canterbury" title="Ælfheah of Canterbury">Ælfheah</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%86thelnoth_(archbishop_of_Canterbury)" title="Æthelnoth (archbishop of Canterbury)">Æthelnoth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eadsige" title="Eadsige">Eadsige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_of_Jumi%C3%A8ges" title="Robert of Jumièges">Robert of Jumièges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stigand" title="Stigand">Stigand</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Conquest to <a href="/wiki/English_Reformation" title="English Reformation">Reformation</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><a href="/wiki/Lanfranc" title="Lanfranc">Lanfranc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anselm_of_Canterbury" title="Anselm of Canterbury">Anselm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_d%27Escures" title="Ralph d'Escures">Ralph d'Escures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_de_Corbeil" title="William de Corbeil">William de Corbeil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theobald_of_Bec" title="Theobald of Bec">Theobald of Bec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Becket" title="Thomas Becket">Thomas Becket</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roger_de_Bailleul" title="Roger de Bailleul">Roger de Bailleul</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_of_Dover" title="Richard of Dover">Richard of Dover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baldwin_of_Forde" title="Baldwin of Forde">Baldwin of Forde</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Fitz_Jocelin" title="Reginald Fitz Jocelin">Reginald Fitz Jocelin</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubert_Walter" title="Hubert Walter">Hubert Walter</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reginald_(sub-prior)" title="Reginald (sub-prior)">Reginald</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/John_de_Gray" title="John de Gray">John de Gray</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Langton" title="Stephen Langton">Stephen Langton</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Walter_d%27Eynsham" title="Walter d'Eynsham">Walter d'Eynsham</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_le_Grant" title="Richard le Grant">Richard le Grant</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Neville" title="Ralph Neville">Ralph Neville</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/John_of_Sittingbourne" title="John of Sittingbourne">John of Sittingbourne</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/John_Blund" title="John Blund">John Blund</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_of_Abingdon" title="Edmund of Abingdon">Edmund of Abingdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boniface_of_Savoy_(bishop)" title="Boniface of Savoy (bishop)">Boniface</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/William_Chillenden" title="William Chillenden">William Chillenden</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Kilwardby" title="Robert Kilwardby">Robert Kilwardby</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burnell" title="Robert Burnell">Robert Burnell</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Peckham" title="John Peckham">John Peckham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Winchelsey" title="Robert Winchelsey">Robert Winchelsey</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cobham" title="Thomas Cobham">Thomas Cobham</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Reynolds" title="Walter Reynolds">Walter Reynolds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Mepeham" title="Simon Mepeham">Simon Mepeham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_de_Stratford" title="John de Stratford">John de Stratford</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/John_de_Ufford" title="John de Ufford">John de Ufford</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bradwardine" title="Thomas Bradwardine">Thomas Bradwardine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Islip" title="Simon Islip">Simon Islip</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/William_Edington" title="William Edington">William Edington</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Langham" title="Simon Langham">Simon Langham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Whittlesey" title="William Whittlesey">William Whittlesey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Sudbury" title="Simon Sudbury">Simon Sudbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Courtenay" title="William Courtenay">William Courtenay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Arundel" title="Thomas Arundel">Thomas Arundel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Walden" title="Roger Walden">Roger Walden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Arundel" title="Thomas Arundel">Thomas Arundel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Chichele" title="Henry Chichele">Henry Chichele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stafford_(bishop)" title="John Stafford (bishop)">John Stafford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kemp" title="John Kemp">John Kemp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bourchier_(cardinal)" title="Thomas Bourchier (cardinal)">Thomas Bourchier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Morton_(cardinal)" title="John Morton (cardinal)">John Morton</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Langton" title="Thomas Langton">Thomas Langton</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Deane_(archbishop_of_Canterbury)" title="Henry Deane (archbishop of Canterbury)">Henry Deane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Warham" title="William Warham">William Warham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer" title="Thomas Cranmer">Thomas Cranmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Pole" title="Reginald Pole">Reginald Pole</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Post-Reformation</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/Matthew_Parker" title="Matthew Parker">Matthew Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Grindal" title="Edmund Grindal">Edmund Grindal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Whitgift" title="John Whitgift">John Whitgift</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Richard Bancroft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Abbot_(bishop)" title="George Abbot (bishop)">George Abbot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Laud" title="William Laud">William Laud</a></li> <li><i>Episcopacy abolished (<a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England" title="Commonwealth of England">Commonwealth</a>)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Juxon" title="William Juxon">William Juxon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Sheldon" title="Gilbert Sheldon">Gilbert Sheldon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Sancroft" title="William Sancroft">William Sancroft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tillotson" title="John Tillotson">John Tillotson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tenison" title="Thomas Tenison">Thomas Tenison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wake" title="William Wake">William Wake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Potter_(bishop)" title="John Potter (bishop)">John Potter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Herring" title="Thomas Herring">Thomas Herring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Hutton_(archbishop_of_Canterbury)" title="Matthew Hutton (archbishop of Canterbury)">Matthew Hutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Secker" title="Thomas Secker">Thomas Secker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Cornwallis" title="Frederick Cornwallis">Frederick Cornwallis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Moore_(archbishop_of_Canterbury)" title="John Moore (archbishop of Canterbury)">John Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Manners-Sutton" title="Charles Manners-Sutton">Charles Manners-Sutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Howley" title="William Howley">William Howley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bird_Sumner" title="John Bird Sumner">John Bird Sumner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Longley" title="Charles Longley">Charles Longley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Campbell_Tait" title="Archibald Campbell Tait">Archibald Campbell Tait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_White_Benson" title="Edward White Benson">Edward White Benson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Temple" title="Frederick Temple">Frederick Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randall_Davidson" title="Randall Davidson">Randall Davidson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cosmo_Gordon_Lang" title="Cosmo Gordon Lang">Cosmo Lang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Temple_(bishop)" title="William Temple (bishop)">William Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Fisher" title="Geoffrey Fisher">Geoffrey Fisher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Ramsey" title="Michael Ramsey">Michael Ramsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Coggan" title="Donald Coggan">Donald Coggan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Runcie" title="Robert Runcie">Robert Runcie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Carey" title="George Carey">George Carey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rowan_Williams" title="Rowan Williams">Rowan Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justin_Welby" title="Justin Welby">Justin Welby</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><i>Italics</i> indicate a person who was elected but not confirmed.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Bishops_of_London" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th 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(bishop)">Coenwalh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eadbald_(bishop_of_London)" title="Eadbald (bishop of London)">Eadbald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heathoberht" title="Heathoberht">Heathoberht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osmund_(bishop_of_London)" title="Osmund (bishop of London)">Osmund</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelnoth_(bishop_of_London)" title="Æthelnoth (bishop of London)">Æthelnoth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceolberht" title="Ceolberht">Ceolberht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deorwulf" title="Deorwulf">Deorwulf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swithwulf_(bishop_of_London)" title="Swithwulf (bishop of London)">Swithwulf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heahstan" title="Heahstan">Heahstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfsige_of_London" title="Wulfsige of London">Wulfsige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelweard_of_London" title="Æthelweard of London">Æthelweard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leofstan" title="Leofstan">Leofstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodred_(bishop_of_London)" title="Theodred (bishop of London)">Theodred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihthelm_(bishop_of_London)" title="Brihthelm (bishop of London)">Brihthelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunstan" title="Dunstan">Dunstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfstan_(bishop_of_London)" title="Ælfstan (bishop of London)">Ælfstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfstan_(died_1023)" title="Wulfstan (died 1023)">Wulfstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfhun_(bishop_of_London)" title="Ælfhun (bishop of London)">Ælfhun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfwig" title="Ælfwig">Ælfwig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfweard_of_London" title="Ælfweard of London">Ælfweard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_of_Jumi%C3%A8ges" title="Robert of Jumièges">Robert of Jumièges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spearhafoc" title="Spearhafoc">Spearhafoc</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Post-Conquest</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/William_the_Norman" title="William the Norman">William the Norman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_d%27Orevalle" title="Hugh d'Orevalle">Hugh d'Orevalle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_(bishop_of_London)" title="Maurice (bishop of London)">Maurice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_de_Belmeis_I" title="Richard de Belmeis I">Richard de Belmeis I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Universalis" title="Gilbert Universalis">Gilbert Universalis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anselm_of_St_Saba" title="Anselm of St Saba">Anselm</a> <i>(quashed)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_de_Sigello" title="Robert de Sigello">Robert de Sigello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_de_Belmeis_II" title="Richard de Belmeis II">Richard de Belmeis II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Foliot" title="Gilbert Foliot">Gilbert Foliot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_FitzNeal" title="Richard FitzNeal">Richard FitzNeal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_of_Sainte-M%C3%A8re-%C3%89glise" title="William of Sainte-Mère-Église">William of Sainte-Mère-Église</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eustace_of_Fauconberg" title="Eustace of Fauconberg">Eustace of Fauconberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Niger" title="Roger Niger">Roger Niger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulk_Basset_(bishop_of_London)" title="Fulk Basset (bishop of London)">Fulk Basset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wingham" title="Henry Wingham">Henry Wingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Talbot_(bishop_of_London)" title="Richard Talbot (bishop of London)">Richard Talbot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_of_Sandwich" title="Henry of Sandwich">Henry of Sandwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Chishull" title="John Chishull">John Chishull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulke_Lovell" title="Fulke Lovell">Fulke Lovell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Gravesend" title="Richard Gravesend">Richard Gravesend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Baldock" title="Ralph Baldock">Ralph Baldock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Segrave" title="Gilbert Segrave">Gilbert Segrave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Newport_(bishop)" title="Richard Newport (bishop)">Richard Newport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Gravesend" title="Stephen Gravesend">Stephen Gravesend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_de_Wentworth" title="Richard de Wentworth">Richard de Wentworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Stratford" title="Ralph Stratford">Ralph Stratford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Northburgh" title="Michael Northburgh">Michael Northburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Sudbury" title="Simon Sudbury">Simon Sudbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Courtenay" title="William Courtenay">William Courtenay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Braybrooke" title="Robert Braybrooke">Robert Braybrooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Walden" title="Roger Walden">Roger Walden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Bubwith" title="Nicholas Bubwith">Nicholas Bubwith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Clifford" title="Richard Clifford">Richard Clifford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kemp" title="John Kemp">John Kemp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Grey_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="William Grey (bishop of Lincoln)">William Grey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_FitzHugh" title="Robert FitzHugh">Robert FitzHugh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gilbert_(bishop)" title="Robert Gilbert (bishop)">Robert Gilbert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Kempe" title="Thomas Kempe">Thomas Kempe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hill_(bishop)" title="Richard Hill (bishop)">Richard Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Savage_(bishop)" title="Thomas Savage (bishop)">Thomas Savage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Warham" title="William Warham">William Warham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Barons" title="William Barons">William Barons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_FitzJames" title="Richard FitzJames">Richard FitzJames</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuthbert_Tunstall" title="Cuthbert Tunstall">Cuthbert Tunstall</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">During the Reformation</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/John_Stokesley" title="John Stokesley">John Stokesley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Bonner" title="Edmund Bonner">Edmund Bonner</a> <i>(1st)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Ridley_(martyr)" title="Nicholas Ridley (martyr)">Nicholas Ridley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Bonner" title="Edmund Bonner">Edmund Bonner</a> <i>(2nd)</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Post-Reformation</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/Edmund_Grindal" title="Edmund Grindal">Edmund Grindal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Sandys_(bishop)" title="Edwin Sandys (bishop)">Edwin Sandys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Aylmer_(bishop)" title="John Aylmer (bishop)">John Aylmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Fletcher_(bishop)" title="Richard Fletcher (bishop)">Richard Fletcher</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Richard Bancroft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Vaughan_(bishop)" title="Richard Vaughan (bishop)">Richard Vaughan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ravis" title="Thomas Ravis">Thomas Ravis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Abbot_(bishop)" title="George Abbot (bishop)">George Abbot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_King_(bishop_of_London)" title="John King (bishop of London)">John King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Montaigne" title="George Montaigne">George Montaigne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Laud" title="William Laud">William Laud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Juxon" title="William Juxon">William Juxon</a></li> <li><i>Episcopacy abolished (<a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England" title="Commonwealth of England">Commonwealth</a>)</i></li> <li>William Juxon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Sheldon" title="Gilbert Sheldon">Gilbert Sheldon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Henchman" title="Humphrey Henchman">Humphrey Henchman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Compton_(bishop)" title="Henry Compton (bishop)">Henry Compton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Robinson_(bishop_of_London)" title="John Robinson (bishop of London)">John Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Gibson" title="Edmund Gibson">Edmund Gibson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sherlock" title="Thomas Sherlock">Thomas Sherlock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hayter" title="Thomas Hayter">Thomas Hayter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Osbaldeston" title="Richard Osbaldeston">Richard Osbaldeston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Terrick" title="Richard Terrick">Richard Terrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Lowth" title="Robert Lowth">Robert Lowth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beilby_Porteus" title="Beilby Porteus">Beilby Porteus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Randolph_(bishop_of_London)" title="John Randolph (bishop of London)">John Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Howley" title="William Howley">William Howley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_James_Blomfield" title="Charles James Blomfield">Charles James Blomfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Campbell_Tait" title="Archibald Campbell Tait">Archibald Campbell Tait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jackson_(bishop)" title="John Jackson (bishop)">John Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Temple" title="Frederick Temple">Frederick Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandell_Creighton" title="Mandell Creighton">Mandell Creighton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Winnington-Ingram" title="Arthur Winnington-Ingram">Arthur 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