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Description of arms. Gules, a sword erect in pale argent hilt or surmounted by two keys addorsed in saltire gold.
BISHOPS OF CORNWALL
870 Kenstec
893 Asser
931 Conan
950 Æthelge[ard]
c.955 Daniel
963 Wulfsige Comoere
990 Ealdred
1009 Æthelsige
1018 Buruhwold
1027 Lyfing, Bishop of Crediton, Cornwall and Worcester
1046 Leofric, Bishop of Crediton and Cornwall
[See transferred to Exeter 1050]
BISHOPS OF CREDITON
909 Eadwulf
934 Æthelgar
953 Ælfwold I
973 Sideman
979 Ælfric
987 Ælfwold II
1008 Ælfwold III
1015 Eadnoth
1027 Lyfing
1046 Leofric[1]
BISHOPS OF EXETER
1050 Leofric
1072 Osbern Fitz-Osbern
1107 Will. Warelwast
1138 Robert Warelwast
1155 Robert II of Chichester
1161 Bartholomew
1186 John the Chanter
1194 Henry Marshall
1214 Simon of Apulia
1224 William Brewer
1245 Richard Blund
1258 Walter Bronescombe
1280 Peter Quinel [Wyvill]
1292 Thomas Bitton
1308 Walter Stapeldon
1327 James Berkeley
1328 John Grandisson
1370 Thomas Brantingham
1395 Edmund Stafford
1419 John Catterick
1420 Edmund Lacy
1458 George Nevill
1465 John Booth
1478 Peter Courtenay
1487 Richard Fox
1493 Oliver King
1496 Richard Redman
1502 John Arundel
1505 Hugh Oldham
1519 John Veysey (resigned)
1551 Miles Coverdale
1553 John Veysey (restored)
1555 James Turberville
1560 William Alley [or Allei]
1571 William Bradbridge
1579 John Woolton
1595 Gervase Babington
1598 William Cotton
1621 Valentine Carey
1627 Joseph Hall
1642 Ralph Brownrigg
1660 John Gauden
1662 Seth Ward
1667 Anthony Sparrow
1676 Thomas Lamplugh
1689 Jonathan Trelawney
1708 Offspring Blackall
1717 Lancelot Blackburn
1724 Stephen Weston
1742 Nicholas Claget
1747 George Lavington
1762 Frederick Keppel
1778 John Ross
1792 William Buller
1797 Henry Reginald Courtenay
1803 John Fisher
1807 George Pelham
1820 William Carey
1830 Christopher Bethell
1831 Henry Phillpotts
1869 Frederick Temple
1885 Edward Henry Bickersteth
1901 Herbert Edward Ryle
1903 Archibald Robertson
1916 Rupert Ernest William Gascoyne Cecil
1936 Charles Edward Curzon
1949 Robert Cecil Mortimer
1973 Eric Arthur John Mercer
1985 Geoffrey Hewlett Thompson
1999 Michael Laurence Langrish
2014 Robert Ronald Atwell
2024 Michael Robert Harrison
SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS
Crediton
1897 Robert Edward Trefusis
1930 William Frederick Surtees
1954 Wilfred Arthur Edmund Westall
1974 Philip John Pasterfield
1984 Peter Everard Coleman
1996 Richard Stephen Hawkins
2004 Robert John Scott Evens
2012 Nicholas Howard Paul McKinnel
2015 Sarah Elisabeth Mullally
2018 Jacqueline Ann Searle
Plymouth
1923 John Howard Bertram Masterman
1934 Francis Whitfield Daukes
1950 Norman Harry Clarke
1962 Wilfred Guy Sanderson
1972 Richard Fox Cartwright
1982 Kenneth Albert Newing
1988 Richard Stephen Hawkins
1996 John Henry Garton
2005 John Frank Ford
2015 Nicholas Howard Paul McKinnel
2022 James Emerson Grier
[1] Removed See from Crediton.