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Description of arms. Gules, two lions passant guardant or, on a chief azure, the Virgin ducally crowned sitting on a throne issuant from the chief, on her dexter arm the infant Jesus, and in her sinister hand a sceptre all gold.

BISHOPS OF LINDSEY

 634 Birinus

 650 Agilbert

 660 Aetlai

 678 Eadhaed

 680 Æthelwine

 693 (?)Edgar

 731 (?)Cyneberht

 733 Alwig

 750 Aldwulf

 767 Ceolwulf

 796 Eadwulf

 839 Beorhtred

 869 Burgheard

 933 Ælfred

 953 Leofwine

 996 Sigefrith

BISHOPS OF LEICESTER

 664 Wilfrid, translated from York

 679 Cuthwine

 691 Headda[1] (founder of Lichfield Cathedral 705–37)

 727 Aldwine

 737 Torhthelm

 764 Eadberht

 785 Unwona

 803 Wernberht

 816 Raethhun

 840 Ealdred

 844 Ceolred

 874 [See of Leicester removed to Dorchester]

BISHOPS OF DORCHESTER

(after it became a Mercian See)

c.888 Ahlheard

 900 Wigmund or Wilferth

 909 Cenwulf

 925 Wynsige

c.951 Osketel

 953 Leofwine

 975 Ælfnoth

 979 Æscwig

1002 ÆIfheln

1006 Eadnoth I

1016 Æthelric

1034 Eadnoth II

1049 Ulf

1053 Wulfwig

1067 Remigius

BISHOPS OF LINCOLN

1072 Remigius

1094 Robert Bloett

1123 Alexander

1148 Robert de Chesney

1183 Walter de Coutances

1186 Hugh of Avalon

1203 William of Blois

1209 Hugh of Wells

1235 Robert Grosseteste

1254 Henry Lexington [Sutton]

1258 Richard Gravesend

1280 Oliver Sutton [Lexington]

1300 John Dalderby

1320 Henry Burghersh

1342 Thomas Bek

1347 John Gynewell

1363 John Bokyngham [Buckingham]

1398 Henry Beaufort

1405 Philip Repingdon

1420 Richard Fleming

1431 William Gray

1436 William Alnwick

1450 Marmaduke Lumley

1452 John Chedworth

1472 Thomas Rotherham [Scott]

1480 John Russell

1495 William Smith

1514 Thomas Wolsey

1514 William Atwater

1521 John Longland

1547 Henry Holbeach [Rands]

1552 John Taylor

1554 John White

1557 Thomas Watson

1560 Nicholas Bullingham

1571 Thomas Cooper

1584 William Wickham

1595 William Chaderton

1608 William Barlow

1614 Richard Neile

1617 George Monteigne [Mountain]

1621 John Williams

1642 Thomas Winniffe

1660 Robt. Sanderson

1663 Benjamin Laney

1667 William Fuller

1675 Thomas Barlow

1692 Thomas Tenison

1695 James Gardiner

1705 William Wake

1716 Edmund Gibson

1723 Richard Reynolds

1744 John Thomas

1761 John Green

1779 Thomas Thurlow

1787 George Pretyman [Pretyman Tomline after June 1803]

1820 George Pelham

1827 John Kaye

1853 John Jackson

1869 Christopher Wordsworth

1885 Edward King

1910 Edward Lee Hicks

1920 William Shuckburgh Swayne

1933 Frederick Cyril Nugent Hicks

1942 Henry Aylmer Skelton

1946 Leslie Owen

1947 Maurice Henry Harland

1956 Kenneth Riches

1975 Simon Wilton Phipps

1987 Robert Maynard Hardy

2001 John Charles Saxbee

2011 Christopher Lowson

2023 Stephen David Conway

SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS

Grantham

1905 Welbore MacCarthy

1920 John Edward Hine

1930 Ernest Morell Blackie

1935 Arthur Ivan Greaves

1937 Algernon Augustus Markham

1949 Anthony Otter

1965 Ross Sydney Hook

1972 Dennis Gascoyne Hawker

1987 William Ind

1997 Alastair Lewellyn John Redfern

2006 Timothy William Ellis

2015 Nicholas Alan Chamberlain

Grimsby

1935 Ernest Morell Blackie

1937 Anhur Ivan Greaves

1958 Kenneth Healey

1966 Gerald Fitzmaurice Colin

1979 David Tustin

2000 David Douglas James Rossdale

2014 David Eric Court