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Bishop of London

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image:Bishoflondarms.PNG thumb|right|'''Arms of the [[episcopal see|see of London''']] :''This article is about the historical Bishop of London in the Roman Catholic and then Anglican churches. For the current Catholic bishop of Greater London, please see Archbishop of Westminster.'' The '''Bishop of London''' is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury. During the Middle Ages and the Tudor period, the bishop and the diocese were Roman Catholic. The diocese covers 458 km² (177 sq. mi.) of 17 boroughs of the former Greater London north of the Thames River Thames (previously the County of Middlesex) and a small part of the County of Surrey. The Episcopal see see is in the London City of London where the seat is located at the St Paul's Cathedral Cathedral Church of Saint Paul which was founded as a cathedral in 604 and was rebuilt from 1675 following the Great Fire of London (1666). The Bishop's residence is The Old Deanery, Dean's Court, London. Previously, for over a thousand years Fulham Palace was the residence, although, from the eighteenth century, London House, next to the Bishop's Chapel in Aldersgate Street, was where he had his chambers, and was used as a more convenient place for the Bishop to conduct his affairs. Third in importance in the Church of England after the Archdioceses of Canterbury, Kent Canterbury and York, the Bishop is one of five senior bishops, alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Durham, and the Bishop of Winchester, who sit as of right as one of the 26 Lords Spiritual in the House of Lords, as opposed to the remaining diocesan bishops of lesser rank for whom elevation to one of the seats reserved is attained upon its vacancy and is determined by chronological seniority. Because the Bishop's diocese includes the Royal palaces and the seat of government at Westminster, he has been regarded as the 'King's bishop' and has historically had considerable influence with members of the Royal Family and leading politicians of the day. Since 1748 it has been customary to appoint the Bishop of London to the post of Dean of the Chapel Royal, which has the amusing effect of putting under the bishop's jurisdiction ''as dean'' several chapels (at the Tower of London and St. James's Palace, among others) which are geographically in the Diocese of London but as royal peculiars are specifically outside the bishop's jurisdiction ''as bishop.'' The recorded antiquity of the office dates back to Celtic Britain where sixteen named archbishops are listed by Jocelyne of Furnes in his work ''Bishops''. Stowe noted that this was the sole available source of these names. However, the earlier of the two bishops named Restitutus in the list below fl 314 in which year he was named as attending the Council of Arles. The Saxon people Saxon bishopric of which the present diocese is the direct successor was established in 604 by Mellitus, the same year as St Paul's Cathedral (and also the Diocese of Rochester, Kent Rochester) were founded. The last Catholic bishop of London was deprived and imprisoned in 1559. Thereafter there followed a line of Church of England Protestant bishops. The current Bishop of London is the Right Reverend and Right Honourable Richard Chartres '''Richard''' John Carew '''Chartres''', the 132nd '''Lord Bishop of London''', who was installed on 26 January 1996 and who signs ''Richard Londin''. Dr Graham Leonard, former Anglican Bishop of London, and before that Anglican Bishop of Truro, was after his retirement reconciled with the Catholic Church. On his request he was ordained a Catholic priest and he was also given the honorific title Monsignor.

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of London, England and its precursor offices
'''NB''': See above for reference to the entries listed as ''Archbishop of London'' {| class="wikitable" |- align=left ! width="20%"|Tenure ! width="40%"|Incumbent ! width="30%"|Notes |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Thean''', Archbishop of London|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Elvanus''', Archbishop of London|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Cadar''', Archbishop of London|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Obinus''', Archbishop of London|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Paludius''', Archbishop of London|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Stephen''', Archbishop of London|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Iltute''', Archbishop of London|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Dedwin''', Archbishop of London
(Theodwin)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Thedred''', Archbishop of London|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Hillary''', Archbishop of London|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Restitutus''', Archbishop of London|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Guidelium''', Archbishop of London
(Guiteline)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Fastidius''', Archbishop of London|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Vodimus''', Archbishop of London||Killed by the Saxons |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Theanus''', Archbishop of London||Fled into Wales |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |514 to 553.html">Restitutus II Restitutus'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |553 to 604||'''Theonus'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |604 to 658.html">Miletus'''
(Mellitus) |Translated_to Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury; Mellitus Saint Miletus |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |658 to 664.html">Ceadda''' |Died_in office Saint Ceadda |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |664 to 666||''vacant''||For 2 years |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |666 to 675.html">Wina'''
(Wine.html">Wine (bishop)|Wine)||Translated from Bishop of Winchester Winchester |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |675 to 697.html">Erkenwald''' |Saint Erkenwald |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |697 to 715||'''Waldherus'''
(Waldhere)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |715 to 746||'''Ingualdus'''
(Ingwald)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |746 to 754||'''Egwolfus'''
(Eggwulf)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |754 to 761||'''Wighedus'''
(Sighaeh)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |761 to 768||'''Eadbrightus'''
(Eadbert)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |768 to 773.html">Edgarus'''
(Eadgar.html">Eadgarus|Eadgar)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |773 to 784||'''Kenwalchus'''
(Coenwalh)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |784 to 795.html">Eadbaldus'''
(Eadbald.html">Eadbaldus|Eadbald)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |795 to 802||'''Hecbertus'''
(Heathobertus)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |802 to 816.html">Osmundus'''
(Oswynus; Osmund.html">Osmundus|Osmund)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |816 to 830||'''Ethelnothus'''
(Æthilnoth)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |830 to 841||'''Ceolbertus'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |841 to 851||'''Renulphus'''
(Ceolnulfus)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |851 to 863||'''Suithulfus'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |863 to 898||'''Eadstanus'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |898 to ???||'''Wulfius'''
(Walsius)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Ethelwardus'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |926 to 938||'''Elstanus'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |938 to ???||'''Theodredus'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |??? to ???||'''Wolstanus'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |941 to 958||'''Brithelmus'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |958 to 960.html">Dunstan''' |Translated_from Bishop of Worcester|Worcester; translated to Bishop of Canterbury Canterbury; Saint Dunstan |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |960 to 996||'''Oelfstan'''
(Aelfstan)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |996 to 1004||'''Wuffstan'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1004 to 1016.html">Aldwin'''
(Alduinus) |Translated_from Bishop of Durham|Durham |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1016 to 1032||'''Alfwy'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1032 to 1044||'''Elfward'''
(Alword)||Abbot of Evesham |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1044 to 1051.html">Robert the Norman Robert Gemiticensis '''
(Robert the Norman)||Translated to Canterbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1051 to 1075.html">William the Norman William'''
(William the Norman)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1075 to 1085||'''Hugh d'Orevalle'''|| (Hugh de Orwell) |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1085 to 1108||'''Maurice'''|| Archdeacon of Maine; Lord Chancellor |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1108 to 1128||'''Richard de Beaumis'''
(Belmis)
(Rufus)|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1128 to ''c.''1136||'''Gilbert Universalis'''||Canon of Lyons |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |''c.''1136 to 1138||''Vacant''||For 5 years |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1141 to 1152||'''Robert de Sigello'''||Monk of Reading |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1152 to 1163||'''Richard de Beaumis'''
(Belmis II)||Archdeacon of Middlesex |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1163 to ''c.''1187.html">Robert Foliot'''
(Gilbert Foliot) |Translated from Bishop of Hereford|Hereford |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |''c.''1187||''Vacant''||For 2 years |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1189 to 1199||'''Richard FitzNeal'''
(Richard FitzNigel)||Dean of Lincoln |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1199 to 1221||'''William de St Mariæ Ecclesiâ'''||Prebendary of St Paul's; resigned |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1221 to 1229||'''Eustace de Fauconberg'''||Lord Treasurer |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1229 to 1241.html">Roger Niger''' |Archdeacon of Colchester; Saint Roger Niger |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1241 to 1260||'''Fulke Basset'''||Dean of York |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1260 to 2 July 1262||'''Henry de Wengham'''
(Henry de Wingham)||Prebendary of St Paul's; Lord Chancellor; died in office |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1262 to October 1262||'''Richard Talbot'''||Dean of St Paul's, London |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |???? to ????||'''Henry de Sandwich'''||Prebendary of St Paul's, London |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1273 to 1280||'''John Chishull'''||Dean of St Paul's, London; Lord Chancellor and Lord Treasurer; died in office |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1280 to 1280||'''Fulke Lovell'''||Elected but declined the office |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1280 to 1304||'''Richard de Gravesend'''||Prebendary of St Paul's, London |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1304 to 1313||'''Ralph de Baldoc'''
(Ralph de Baudake)||Dean of St Paul's, London |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1313 to 1317||'''Gilbert de Segrave'''||Precentor of St Paul's, London |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1317 to 1318||'''Richard de Newport'''||Dean of St Paul's, London |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1318 to 1338||'''Stephen de Gravesend'''||Prebendary of St Paul's, London |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1338 to 1340||'''Richard de Wentworth
(Richard de Bynteworth)||Prebendary of St Paul's, London and Lord Chancellor |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1340 to 1354||'''Ralph de Stratford'''||Prebendary of St Paul's, London and Salisbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1354 to 1361||'''Michael de Northburg'''||Prebendary of St Paul's, London |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1361 to 1375.html">Simon de Sudbury'''
alias ''Tybold'' |Chancellor of Salisbury; translated to Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1375 to 1381.html">William Courtenay''' |Translated from Bishop of Hereford|Hereford; Lord Chancellor, Chancellor of Oxford; translated to Archbishop of Canterbury Canterbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1381 to 1404||'''Robert de Braybroke'''||Dean of Salisbury; Lord Chancellor |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1404 to 1406.html">Roger Walden''' |Dean of York; consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury; Lord Treasurer |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1406 to 1407||'''Nicholas de Bubwith'''
(Nicholas de Bubbewyth)||Prebendary of Salisbury; Master of the Rolls, Keeper of the Privy Seal and Lord Treasurer; translated to Salisbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1407 to 1421.html">Richard de Clifford''' |Translated from Bishop of Worcester|Worcester |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1421 to 1426.html">John Kempe''' |Translated from Bishop of Chichester|Chichester; translated to Archbishop of York York |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1426 to 1431.html">William Grey''' |Dean of York; translated to Bishop of Lincoln|Lincoln |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1431 to 1436||'''Robert Fitz-Hugh'''||Archdeacon of Northampton and Chancellor of Cambridge |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1436 to 1448||'''Robert Gilbert'''||Dean of York |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1448 to 1489||'''Thomas Kempe'''||Archdeacon of Middlesex and Chancellor of York |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1489 to 1496||'''Richard Hill'''||Dean of King's Chapel and Prebendary of Salisbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1496 to 1502.html">Thomas Savage''' |Translated from Bishop of Rochester|Rochester; translated to Archbishop of York York |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1502 to 1504.html">William Warham''' |Prebendary of St Paul's, London; Lord Chancellor; translated to Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1504 to 1506||'''William Barnes'''||Master of the Rolls |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1506 to 1522.html">Richard Fitz-James''' |Translated from Bishop of Chichester|Chichester |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1522 to 1530.html">Cuthbert Tunstall''' |Dean of Salisbury; Master of the Rolls; translated to Bishop of Durham|Durham |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1530 to 1539||'''John Stockesley'''||Archdeacon of Dorset |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1539 to September 1549.html">Edmund Bonner''' |Archdeacon of Leicester; Bishop-elect of Bishop of Hereford|Hereford; deprived |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1550 to 1553.html">Nicholas Ridley''' |Translated from Bishop of Rochester|Rochester; deprived by Mary of England Queen Mary |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1553 to May 1559.html">Edmund Bonner''' |Restored by Mary of England|Mary; deprived |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1559 to 1570.html">Edmund Grindal''' |Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; translated to Archbishop of York|York |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1570 to 1577.html">Edwyn Sandys''' |Translated from Bishop of Worcester|Worcester |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1577 to 1594||'''John Aylmer'''||Archdeacon of Lincoln |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1594 to 15 June 1596.html">Richard Fletcher''' |Translated from Bishop of Worcester|Worcester; died in office |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1597 to 1604.html">Richard Bancroft''' |Prebendary of Westminster; translated to Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1604 to 1607.html">Richard Vaugham''' |Translated from Bishop of Chester|Chester |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1607 to 1610.html">Thomas Ravis''' |Translated from Bishop of Gloucester|Gloucester |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1610 to 1611.html">George Abbot (Archbishop of Canterbury) George Abbot'''||Translated from Bishop of Lichfield Lichfield & Coventry; translated to Archbishop of Canterbury Canterbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1611 to 1621||'''John King'''||Dean of Christchurch, Oxford |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1621 to 1628.html">George Monteigne''' |Translated from Bishop of Lincoln|Lincoln |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1628 to 1633.html">William Laud''' |Translated from Bishop of Bath and Wells|Bath & Wells; Chancellor of Oxford; translated to Archbishop of Canterbury Canterbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1633 to 1660.html">William Juxon''' |Translated from Bishop of Hereford|Hereford before consecration; Lord Treasurer; translated to Archbishop of Canterbury Canterbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1660 to 1663.html">Gilbert Sheldon''' |Prebendary of Gloucester; translated to Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1663 to 1675.html">Humphrey Henchman''' |Translated from Bishop of Salisbury|Salisbury; Bishop Almoner |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |December 1675 to 1713.html">Henry Compton''' |Translated from Bishop of Oxford|Oxford |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1713 to 11 April 1723.html">John Robinson (1650-1723) John Robinson'''||Translated from Bishop of Bristol Bristol; died in office |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1723 to 6 September 1748.html">Edmund Gibson''' |Translated from Bishop of Lincoln|Lincoln; died in office |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1748 to July 1761.html">Thomas Sherlock''' |Translated from Bishop of Salisbury|Salisbury; died in office |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1761 to 1762.html">Thomas Hayter''' |Translated from Bishop of Norwich|Norwich; died in office |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1762 to 1764.html">Richard Osbaldeston''' |Translated from Bishop of Carlisle|Carlisle; died in office |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1764 to 1777.html">Richard Terrick''' |Translated from Bishop of Peterborough|Peterborough |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1777 to 3 November 1787.html">Robert Lowth''' |Translated from Bishop of Oxford|Oxford; died in office |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1787 to 13 May 1809.html">Beilby Porteus''' |Translated from Bishop of Chester|Chester; died in office |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |12 June 1809 to 1813.html">John Randolph (bishop) John Randolph'''||Translated from Bishop of Bangor Bangor |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |14 August 1813 to 1828.html">William Howley''' |Translated to Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |15 August 1828 to September 1856.html">Charles James Blomfield''' |Translated from Bishop of Chester|Chester; resigned |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |11 October 1856 to 1868.html">Archibald Campbell Tait''' |Dean of Carlisle; translated to Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |4 January 1869 to 6 January 1885.html">John Jackson''' |Translated from Bishop of Lincoln|Lincoln |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |25 February 1885 to 1896.html">Frederick Temple''' |Translated from Bishop of Exeter|Exeter |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1897 to 1901||'''Mandell Creighton'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1901 to 1939||'''Arthur Winnington-Ingram'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1939 to 1945||'''Geoffrey Fisher'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1945 to 1955||'''John Wand'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1956 to 1961||'''Henry Campbell'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1961 to 1973.html">Robert Stopford''' |Translated from Bishop of Peterborough|Peterborough |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1973 to 1981||'''Gerald Ellison'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1981 to 1991.html">Graham Leonard '''Graham''' Douglas '''Leonard'''||Translated from Bishop of Truro Truro |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1991 to 1995.html">David Hope '''David''' Michael '''Hope'''||Translated from Bishop of Wakefield Wakefield; translated to Archbishop of York York |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1996 to present (time) present||Richard Chartres '''Richard''' John Carew '''Chartres'''|| |} {{Anglican Bishops & Archbishops - Great Britain}}

Sources
*'''''Haydn's Book of Dignities (1894)''' Joseph Haydn/Horace Ockerby, reprinted 1969'' * '''''Whitaker's Almanack 1883''' to '''2004''', Joseph Whitaker and Sons Ltd/A&C Black, London''

See also
*Lists of office-holders

External links

- http://www.london.anglican.org/
- Bishop of London refuses to ban gay Bishop from church service Category:Anglicanism Category:Religion in London Category:Anglican bishops by diocese London de:Liste der Bischöfe von London no:London bispedømme

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