Archbishops of York

(Bishops until 735, and Archbishops afterwards)

 

Office

Holder

 

Year of
appointment

Paulinus

  627-633
see vacant   633-644

Chad (Ceadda)

  644-669

Wilfrid I (St. Wilfrid)

  669-677

Bosa

 

678-705

John (St. John of Beverley)

  705-718

Wilfrid II

 

718-732

Egbert

 

735-766

Ethelbert

 

767-780

Eanbald I

 

780-796

Eanbald II

  796-808

Wulfsige

  808-837

Wigmund

  837-854

Wulfhere

  854-900
Ethelbald   900-904
Hrotheweard (or Lodeward)   904-931

Wulfstan I

 

931-956

Oskytel

 

958-971

Edwald (or Ethelwold)

 

971

Oswald   972-992

Ealdulf (Abbot of Peterborough)

 

992-1002

Wulfstan II

 

1003-1023

Aelfric Puttoc

  1023-1051

Cynesige

  1051-1060

Ealdred

  1061-1069

Thomas I

  1070-1100

Gerard

  1101-1108

Thomas II

  1109-1114
Thurstan   1119-1140

William Fitzherbert

  1143-1147

Henry Fitzherbert

  1147-1153

William Fitzherbert (again)

  1154

Roger of Pont-L'Eveque

  1154-1181

Geoffrey Plantagenet

 

1181-1191

Walter De Grey

  1215-1255

Sewal De Bovill

  1256-1258

Godfrey of Ludham (or Kineton)

  1258-1265

Walter Giffard

  1256-1279
William Wickwane   1279-1285

John le Romeyn (Romanus)

  1286-1296

Henry of Newark

  1298-1299

Thomas of Corbridge

  1300-1304

William Greenfield

  1306-1316

William of Melton

  1317-1340

William La Zouche

  1342-1352

John Thoresby

  1352-1373

Alexander Neville

  1374-1388

Thomas Fitzalan

  1388-1396

Robert Waldby

  1396-1398

Richard Scrope

  1398-1405

Henry Bowet

  1405-1423

John Kempe

  1425-1452

William Booth

  1452-1464

George Neville

  1465-1476
Lawrence Booth   1476-1480

Thomas Rotheram

  1480-1500

Thomas Savage

  1501-1507

Christopher Bainbridge

  1508-1514

Thomas Wolsey

  1514-1530

Edward Lee

  1531-1544

Robert Holgate

  1545-1554

Nicholas Heath

  1555-1560

Thomas Young

  1561-1568

Edmund Grindal

  1570-1576
Edwin Sandys   1577-1588

John Piers

  1589-1594

Matthew Hutton

  1595-1606

Tobias Matthew

  1606-1628

George Montaigne

Chaplain to the Earl of Essex, Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, Master of the Savoy and Chaplain to King James I, Rector of Great Cressingham, Norf., of Aspeden, Herts., of Cheam, Surrey, Dean of Westminster. Bishop of Lincoln, of London, then of Durham, Archbishop of York. d.1628.

1628
Samuel Harsnett   1628-1631
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