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Description of arms. Azure, a cross or between four lions rampant argent.

BISHOPS OF LINDISFARNE[1]

 635 Aidan

 651 Finan

 661 Colman

 664 Tuda [Complications involving Wilfrid and Chad]

 681 Eata

 685 Cuthberht [Vacancy during which Wilfrid administered the See]

 688 Eadberht

 698 Eadfenh

 731 Æthelweald

 740 Cynewulf

 781 Higbald

 803 Ecgberht

 821 Heathwred

 830 Ecgred

 845 Eanberht

 854 Eardwulf

BISHOPS OF HEXHAM

 664 Wilfrith

 678 Eata

 681 Tunberht

 684 Cuthbert

 685 Eata (restored)

 687 John of Beverley

 709 Acca

 734 Frithoberht

 767 Ahimund

 781 Tilberht

 789 Æthelberht

 797 Heardred

 800 Eanberht

 813 Tidferth

BISHOPS OF CHESTER-LE-STREET[2]

 899 Eardwulf

 899 Cutheard

 915 Tilred

 925 Wigred

 944 Uhtred

 944 Seaxhelm

 944 Ealdred

 968 Ælfsige

 990 Aldhun

BISHOPS OF DURHAM

 990 Aldhun d. 1018 [See vacant 1018–1020]

1020 Edmund

c.1040 Eadred

1041 Æthelric

1056 Æthelwine

1071 Walcher

1081 William of Saint Calais

1099 Ralph [Ranulf] Flambard

1133 Geoffrey Rufus

1143 William of Sainte-Barbe

1153 Hugh of le Puiset

1197 Philip of Poitiers

1217 Richard Marsh

1228 Richard Poore

1241 Nicholas Farnham

1249 Walter Kirkham

1261 Robert Stichill

1274 Robert of Holy Island

1284 Anthony Bek

1311 Richard Kellaw

1318 Lewis de Beaumont

1333 Richard of Bury

1345 Thomas Hatfield

1382 John Fordham

1388 Walter Skirlaw

1406 Thomas Langley

1438 Robert Nevill

1457 Lawrence Booth

1476 William Dudley

1485 John Shirwood

1494 Richard Fox

1502 William Senhouse [Sever]

1507 Christopher Bainbridge

1509 Thomas Ruthall

1523 Thomas Wolsey

1530 Cuthbert Tunstall

1561 James Pilkington

1577 Richard Barnes

1589 Matthew Hutton

1595 Tobias Matthew

1606 William James

1617 Richard Neile

1628 George Monteigne [Mountain]

1628 John Howson

1632 Thomas Morton

1660 John Cosin

1674 Nathaniel Crew [Lord Crew]

1721 William Talbot

1730 Edward Chandler

1750 Joseph Butler

1752 Richard Trevor

1771 John Egerton

1787 Thomas Thurlow

1791 Shute Barrington

1826 William Van Mildert

1836 Edward Maltby

1856 Charles Thomas Longley

1860 Henry Montagu Villiers

1861 Charles Baring

1879 Joseph Barber Lightfoot

1890 Brooke Foss Westcott

1901 Handley Carr Glyn Moule

1920 Herbert Hensley Henson

1939 Alwyn Terrell Petre Williams

1952 Arthur Michael Ramsey

1956 Maurice Henry Harland

1966 Ian Thomas Ramsey

1973 John Stapylton Habgood

1984 David Edward Jenkins

1994 Anthony Michael Arnold Turnbull

2003 Nicholas Thomas Wright

2011 Justin Portal Welby

2014 Paul Roger Butler

SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS

Jarrow

1906 George Nickson

1914 John Nathaniel Quirk

1924 Samuel Kirshbaum Knight

1932 James Geoffrey Gordon

1939 Leslie Owen

1944 David Colin Dunlop

1950 John Alexander Ramsbotham

1958 Mervyn Armstrong

1965 Alexander Kenneth Hamilton

1980 Michael Thomas Ball

1990 Alan Smithson

2002 John Lawrence Pritchard

2007 Mark Watts Bryant

2019 Sarah Elizabeth Clark