Bishop Of Bath And Wells

The Bishop of Bath and Wells is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the County of Somerset and a small area of Dorset. The see is in the City of Wells in Somerset where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew. Wells has been the seat of a bishop since 909 although the see has been located at Wells and Bath both individually and jointly (with Bath Abbey serving as co-cathedral). The current bishop is the Right Reverend Peter Bryan Price, the 77th Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, who signs Peter Bath & Wells.

List of the Bishops of Bath & Wells, England and its precursor offices

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
width="18%"|Tenure width="40%"|Incumbent width="20%"|Notes
colspan="3"|See at Wells
small>1061 to 1088 Gisa, Bishop of Wells
small>1088 to 1090 John de Villula, Bishop of Wells
colspan="3"|See at Bath
small>1090 to 1122 John de Villula, Bishop of Bath
small>1123 to 1135 Godfrey, Bishop of Bath
small>1136 to 1166 Robert, Bishop of Bath
small>1173 to 1191 Reginald FitzJocelin, Bishop of Bath
small>1191 to 1192 Savaric FitzGeldewin, Bishop of Bath
colspan="3"|Diocese of Bath & Glastonbury
small>1192 to 1205 Savaric FitzGeldewin, Bishop of Bath
small>1206 to 1218 Jocelin of Wells, Bishop of Bath
colspan="3"|Diocese of Bath & Wells
small>1218 to 1242 Jocelin of Wells, Bishop of Bath
small>1244 to 1245 Roger of Salisbury, Bishop of Bath Becoming Bishop of Bath & Wells
olspan="3"|Diocese of Bath and Wells
small>1245 to 1247 Roger of Salisbury, Bishop of Bath and Wells Hitherto Bishop of Bath
small>1248 to 1264 William of Bitton I
small>1265 to 1266 Walter Giffard
small>1267 to 1274 William of Bitton II
small>1275 to 25 October 1292 Robert Burnell Died in office
small>1293 to 1302 William of March
small>1302 to 1308 Walter Haselshaw
small>1309 to 1329 John Droxford
small>1329 to 1363 Ralph of Shrewsbury
small>1363 to 1366 John Barnet
small>1367 to 1386 John Harewell
small>1386 to 1388 Walter Skirlaw
small>1388 to 1400 Ralph Erghum
small>1401 to 1407 Henry Bowet
small>1407 to 1424 Nicholas Bubwith
small>1424 to 1443 John Stafford
small>1443 to 1465 Thomas Beckington
small>1466 to 1491 Robert Stillington
small>1492 to 1494 Richard Fox
small>1495 to 1503 Oliver King
small>1504 to 1518 Adriano de Castello
small>1518 to 1523 Thomas Wolsey
small>1523 to 1541 John Clerk
small>1541 to 1547 William Knight
small>1548 to 1553 William Barlow
small>1554 to 1559 Gilbert Bourne
small>1560 to 1581 Gilbert Berkeley
small>1584 to 1590 Thomas Godwin
small>1593 to 1608 John Stil
small>1608 to 1616 James Montague
small>1616 to 1626 Arthur Lake
small>1626 to 1628 William Laud
small>1628 to 1629 Leonard Mawe
small>1629 to 1632 Walter Curle
small>1632 to 1670 William Peirs
small>1670 to 1672 Robert Creighton
small>1673 to 1684 Peter Mews
small>1685 to 1690 Thomas Ken Consecrated 25 January 1685
small>1691 to 1703 Richard Kidder
small>1704 to 1727 George Hooper
small>1727 to 1743 John Wynne
small>1743 to 1773 Edward Willes
small>1774 to 1802 Charles Moss
small>1802 to 1824 Richard Beadon
small>1824 to 1845 George Henry Law
small>1845 to 1854 Richard Bagot
small>1854 to 1869 Robert John Eden, the 3rd Baron Auckland
small>1869 to 1894 Arthur Charles Hervey
small>1894 to 1921 George Wyndham Kennion
small>1921 to 1937 St John Basil Wynne Wilson
small>1937 to 1943 Francis Underhill
small>1943 to 1945 John William Charles Wand
small>1946 to 1960 Harold William Bradfield
small>1960 to 1975 Edward Barry Henderson
small>1975 to 1988 John Monier Bickersteth
small>1988 to 1991 George Carey Translated to Canterbury
small>1991 to 2001 James Lawton Thomson, MA, DLitt, FCA Resigned
small>2001 to present Peter Bryan Price

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''
  • http://www.bathwells.anglican.org
  • http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page2749.asp

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