Lichfield

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Description of arms. Per pale gules and argent, a cross potent quadrate in the centre per pale argent and or between four crosses patée those to the dexter argent and those to the sinister gold.

BISHOPS OF MERCIA

 656 Diuma[1]

 658 Ceollach

 659 Trumhere

 662 Jaruman

BISHOPS OF LICHFIELD

 669 Chad[2]

 672 Winfrith

 676 Seaxwulf

 691 Headda[3]

 731 Aldwine

 737 Hwita

 757 Hemele

 765 Cuthfrith

 769 Berhthun

 779 Hygeberht[4]

 801 Aldwulf

 816 Herewine

 818 Æthelwald

 830 Hunberht

 836 Cyneferth

 845 Tunberht

 869 Eadberht

 883 Wulfred

 900 Wigmund or Wilferth

 915 Ælfwine

 941 Wulfgar

 949 Cynesige

 964 Wynsige

 975 Ælfheah

1004 Godwine

1020 Leofgar

1026 Brihtmaer

1039 Wulfsige

1053 Leofwine

1072 Peter

BISHOPS OF LICHFIELD, CHESTER AND COVENTRY[5]

1075 Peter

1086 Robert de Limesey

1121 Robert Peche

1129 Roger de Clinton

1149 Walter Durdent

1161 Richard Peche

1183 Gerard La Pucelle

1188 Hugh Nonant

1198 Geoffrey Muschamp

1215 William Cornhill

1224 Alex. Stavensby

1240 Hugh Pattishall

1246 Roger Weseham

1258 Roger Longespee

1296 Walter Langton

1322 Roger Northburgh

1360 Robert Stretton

1386 Walter Skirlaw

1386 Richard le Scrope

1398 John Burghill

1415 John Catterick

1420 William Heyworth

1447 William Booth

1452 Nicholas Close

1453 Reginald Boulers

1459 John Hales

1493 William Smith

1496 John Arundel

1503 Geoffrey Blyth

1534 Rowland Lee

1541 [Chester formed as a bishopric]

1543 Richard Sampson

1554 Ralph Baynes

1560 Thomas Bentham

1580 William Overton

1609 George Abbot

1610 Richard Neile

1614 John Overall

1619 Thomas Morton

1632 Robert Wright

1644 Accepted Frewen

1661 John Hackett

1671 Thomas Wood

1692 William Lloyd

1699 John Hough

1717 Edward Chandler

1731 Richard Smalbroke

1750 Fred. Cornwallis

1768 John Egerton

1771 Brownlow North

1775 Richard Hurd

1781 James Cornwallis [4th Earl Cornwallis]

1824 Henry Ryder

1836 [Coventry transferred to Worcester diocese]

1836 Samuel Butler

1840 James Bowstead

1843 John Lonsdale

1868 George Augustus Selwyn

1878 William Dalrymple Maclagan

1891 Augustus Legge

1913 John Augustine Kempthorne

1937 Edward Sydney Woods

1953 Arthur Stretton Reeve

1975 Kenneth John Fraser Skelton

1984 Keith Norman Sutton

2003 Jonathan Michael Gledhill

2016 Michael Geoffrey Ipgrave

SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS

Shrewsbury

1537 Lewis Thomas[6]

1561–1888 in abeyance

1888 Sir Lovelace Tomlinson Stamer

1905–40 in abeyance

1940 Eric Knightley Chetwode Hamilton

1944 Robert Leighton Hodson

1959 William Alonzo Parker

1970 Francis William Cocks

1980 Leslie Lloyd Rees

1987 John Dudley Davies

1994 David Marrison Hallatt

2001 Alan Gregory Clayton Smith

2009 Mark James Rylands

2019 Sarah Ruth Bullock

Stafford

1909 Edward Ash Were

1915 Lionel Payne Crawfurd

1934 Douglas Henry Crick

1938 Lemprière Durell Hammond

1958 Richard George Clitherow

1975 John Waine

1979 John Stevens Waller

1987 Michael Charles Scott-Joynt

1996 Christopher John Hill

2005 Alfred Gordon Mursell

2010 Geoffrey Peter Annas

2021 Matthew John Parker

Wolverhampton

1979 Barry Rogerson

1985 Christopher John Mayfield

1994 Michael Gay Bourke

2007 Clive Malcolm Gregory