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Description of arms. Azure, three labelled mitres or.
BISHOPS OF DUNWICH
631 Felix
648 Thomas
c.653 Berhtgils [Boniface]
c.670 Bisi
c.673 Æcce
693 Alric (?)
716 Eardred
731 Aldbeorht I
747 Æscwulf
747 Eardwulf
775 Cuthwine
775 Aldbeorht II
781 Ecglaf
781 Heardred
793 Ælfhun
798 Tidferth
824 Waermund[1]
825 Wilred
836 Husa
870 Æthelwold
BISHOPS OF ELMHAM
673 Beaduwine
706 Nothberht
c.731 Heathulac
736 Æthelfrith
758 Eanfrith
c.781 Æthelwulf
c.785 Alhheard
814 Sibba
824 Hunferth
824 Hunbeorht
836 Cunda[2]
c.933 Ælfred[3]
c.945 Æthelweald
956 Eadwulf
970 Ælfric I
974 Theodred I
982 Theodred II
997 Æthelstan
1001 Ælfgar
1021 Ælfwine
1038 Ælfric II
1039 Ælfric III
1043 Stigand[4]
1043 Grimketel[5]
1044 Stigand (restored)
1047 Æthelmaer
BISHOPS OF THETFORD
1070 Herfast
1086 William de Beaufai
1091 Herbert Losinga
BISHOPS OF NORWICH
1091 Herbert Losinga
1121 Everard of Montgomery
1146 William de Turbe
1175 John of Oxford
1200 John de Gray
1222 Pandulf Masca
1226 Thomas Blundeville
1239 William Raleigh
1245 Walter Suffield or Calthorp
1258 Simon Walton
1266 Roger Skerning
1278 William Middleton
1289 Ralph Walpole
1299 John Salmon
1325 [Robert de Baldock]
1325 William Ayermine
1337 Anthony Bek
1344 William of Norwich [Bateman]
1356 Thomas Percy
1370 Henry Spencer [Dispenser]
1407 Alexander Tottington
1413 Richard Courtenay
1416 John Wakeryng
1426 William Ainwick
1436 Thomas Brown
1446 Walter Lyhert [le Hart]
1472 James Goldwell
1499 Thomas Jane
1501 Richard Nykke
1536 William Reppes [Rugge]
1550 Thomas Thirlby
1554 John Hopton
1560 John Parkhurst
1575 Edmund Freke
1585 Edmund Scambler
1595 William Redman
1603 John Jegon
1618 John Overall
1619 Samuel Harsnett
1629 Francis White
1632 Richard Corbet
1635 Matthew Wren
1638 Richard Montagu
1641 Joseph Hall
1661 Edward Reynolds
1676 Antony Sparrow
1685 William Lloyd
1691 John Moore
1708 Charles Trimnell
1721 Thomas Green
1723 John Leng
1727 William Baker
1733 Robert Butts
1738 Thomas Gooch
1748 Samuel Lisle
1749 Thomas Hayter
1761 Philip Yonge
1783 Lewis Bagot
1790 George Horne
1792 Charles Manners Sutton
1805 Henry Bathurst
1837 Edward Stanley
1849 Samuel Hinds
1857 John Thomas Pelham
1893 John Sheepshanks
1910 Bertram Pollock
1942 Percy Mark Herbert
1959 William Launcelot Scott Fleming
1971 Maurice Arthur Ponsonby Wood
1985 Peter John Nott
1999 Graham Richard James
2019 Graham Barham Usher
SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS
Lynn
1963 William Somers Llewellyn
1972 William Aubrey Aitken
1986 David Edward Bentley
1994 David John Conner
1999 Anthony Charles Foottit
2004 James Henry Langstaff
2011 Cyril Jonathan Meyrick
2021 Jane Elizabeth Steen
Thetford
see also under Norwich
1536 John Salisbury
1570–1894 in abeyance
1894 Arthur Thomas Lloyd
1903 John Philips Alcott Bowers
1926–45 no appointment
1945 John Walker Woodhouse
1953 Martin Patrick Grainge Leonard
1963 Eric William Bradley Cordingly
1977 Hugh Charles Blackburne
1981 Timothy Dudley-Smith
1992 Hugo Ferdinand de Waal
2001 David John Atkinson
2009 Alan Peter Winton
[1] Bishop of Dunwich or Elmham.
[2] Bishop of Elmham or Dunwich.
[3] Bishop of Elmham or Lindsey.
[4] Deposed before consecration.
[5] Bishop of Selsey and Elmham.