| 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 | |