Bishops of London
(From 601 to 1633)
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Bishops of London (From 601 to 1633) |
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The Diocese of London is third in importance in the Church of England after the Archdioceses of Canterbury and York.
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Office Holder |
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Year
of appointment and termination |
| Mellitus | 601-619 | |
| Erkenwald | c. 665 | |
| Robert of Jumieges | 1044-1051 | |
| William | 1051-1075 | |
| Hugh D'Orival | 1075-1085 | |
| Maurice | 1085-1107 | |
| Richard de Belmeis | 1108-1127 | |
| Gilbert the Universal | 1128-1134 | |
| Robert de Sigillo | 1141-1150 | |
| Richard de Belmeis | 1152-1162 | |
| Gilbert Foliot | 1163-1187 | |
| Richard FitzNeal | 1189-1198 | |
| William of Ste-Mre-Eglise | 1199-1221 | |
| Eustace of Fauconberg | 1221-1228 | |
| Roger Niger | 1229-1241 | |
| Fulke Basset | 1244-1259 | |
| Henry of Wingham | 1260-1262 | |
| Henry of Sandwich | 1263-1273 | |
| John Chishull | 1274-1280 | |
| Richard Gravesend | 1280-1303 | |
| Ralph Baldock | 1306-1313 | |
| Gilbert Segrave | 1313-1316 | |
| Richard Newport | 1317-1318 | |
| Stephen Gravesend | 1319-1338 | |
| Richard Bintworth | 1338-1339 | |
| Ralph Stratford | 1340-1354 | |
| Michael Northburgh | 1355-1361 | |
| Simon Sudbury | 1362-1375 | |
| William Courtenay | 1375-1381 | |
| Robert Braybrooke | 1382-1404 | |
| Roger Walden | 1405-1406 | |
| Nicholas Bubwith | 1406-1407 | |
| Richard Clifford | 1407-1421 | |
| John Kempe | 1422-1425 | |
| William De Grey | 1426-1431 | |
| Robert Fitzhugh | 1431-1436 | |
| Robert Gilbert | 1436-1448 | |
| Thomas Kempe | 1450-1489 | |
| Richard Hill | 1489-1496 | |
| Thomas Savage | 1497-1501 | |
| William Warham | 1502-1503 | |
| William Barons | 1504-1505 | |
| Richard FitzJames | 1506-1522 | |
| Cuthbert Tunstall | 1522-1530 | |
| John Stokesley | 1530-1539 | |
| Edmund Bonner | deprived of title | 1540-1549 |
| Nicholas Ridley | deprived of title | 1550-1553 |
| Edmund Bonner | restored to and again deprived of title | 1553-1559 |
| Edmund Grindal | 1559-1570 | |
| Edwin Sandys | 1570-1577 | |
| John Aylmer | 1577-1594 | |
| Richard Fletcher | 1595-1596 | |
| Richard Bancroft | 1597-1604 | |
| Richard Vaughan | Bishop of Chester 1597 - 1604 | 1604-1607 |
| Thomas Ravis | 1607-1609 | |
| George Abbot | 1610-1611 | |
| John King | 1611-1621 | |
| 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. | 1621-1628 |
| William Laud | 1628-1633 |
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