List of the Bishops of St Davids

Coat of arms of the Diocese of St Davids

The Diocese of Saint David's is part of the Church of Wales . The records of the first years of the diocese are only sketchy.

The following people were Bishops of St Davids ( Wales ):

Name (life data)	Term of office	annotation	image
David of Menevia * around 520 ; † 601 at the latest	to 601
Cynog
Parto
Ceneu
Morfael
Haermynim
Elwaed
Gunuru
Llunwerth
Gwrgwst
Gwgan
Clydog
Oneion
Elfodd † 809
Ethelman
Elaunc
Maelsgwyd
Sadyrmfyw	to 831
Cadell
Sulhaithnay
Novis	to 840
Idwal
Asser
Arthwael
Samson
Ruelin
Rhydderch	to 861
Elwyn
Morfyw
Llunwerth	to 873
Eneuris	to 944
Morgeneu	to 999
Nathan
Ieuan
Arwystl
Morgeneu	until 1023	possibly identical to Morgeneu who was bishop until 999
Ervin	1023
Trahaeam	1023 to 1039
Joseph	1039 to 1061
Bleidudd † 1071	1061 to 1071
Sulien	1071 to 1076
Abraham	1076 to 1078
Sulien	1078 to 1085
Wilfrid	1085 to 1115
Bernard † 1148	1115 to 1148
David FitzGerald † May 8, 1176	1148 to 1176
Peter de Leia † July 16, 1198	1176 to 1198
Gerald of Wales † 1223	elected 1199	he was not recognized by the king, so the post was vacant until 1203
Geoffrey de Henelawe † 1214	1203 to 1214
Iorwerth (also Gervase) † 1229	1215 to 1229
Anselm le Gros † 1247	1230 to 1247
Thomas Wallensis † July 11, 1255	1248 to 1255
Richard of Carew † April 1, 1280	1256 to 1280
Thomas Bek † April 14, 1293	1280 to 1293
David Martin † March 9, 1328	1293 to 1328
Henry Gower † 1347	1328 to 1348
John of Thoresby † November 6, 1373	1347 to 1349	then Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York , as well as Lord Chancellor
Reginald Brian † December 10, 1361	1350 to 1352	then Bishop of Worcester
Thomas Falstoffe † June 1361	1352 to 1361
Adam Houghton † February 13, 1389	1362 to 1389	was also Lord Chancellor
Richard Mitford	elected in 1389	was not recognized and therefore repealed
John Gilbert † July 28, 1397	1389 to 1397	was previously Bishop of Hereford
Guy Mone † August 31, 1407	1397 to 1407
Henry Chichele (Henry Checheley; Henry Chicheley) † April 12, 1443	1408 to 1414	then Archbishop of Canterbury
John Catterick † December 28, 1419	1414 to 1415	then Bishop of Lichfield and Exeter
Stephan Patrington † December 22, 1417	1415 to 1417	thereafter Bishop of Chichester for a full 7 days
Benedict Nichols † June 25, 1433	1418 to 1433	previously Bishop of Bangor
Thomas Rodeburn † June 27, 1442	1434 to 1442
William Lyndwood † October 21, 1446	1442 to 1446
John Langton † May 22, 1447	1447	he died 15 days after his election
John Delabere	1447 to 1460
Robert Tully † around 1481	1460 to 1481
Richard Martin † May 11, 1483	1482 to 1483	before that Bishop of Waterford and Lismore
Thomas Langton † January 27, 1501	1483 to 1485	then Bishop of Salisbury and Winchester
Hugh Pavy (Hugh Parry) † after March 19, 1496	1485 to 1496
John Morgan or Young † after May 19, 1504	1496 to 1504
Robert Sherborne † 1536	1505 to 1508	then Bishop of Chichester
Edward Vaughan † before January 28, 1522	1509 to 1522
Richard Rawlins † February 18, 1536	1523 to 1536
William Barlow † 1568	1536 to 1548	before that Bishop of Asaph and then Bishop of Bath and Wells and of Chichester
Robert Ferrar † March 30, 1555	1548 to 1553	he was deposed with the accession to the throne of Maria I.
Henry Morgan † December 23, 1559	1554 to 1559	last Roman Catholic bishop
Thomas Young * 1507 - † 1568	1559 to 1561	then Archbishop of York
Richard Davies † October / November 1581	1561 to 1581	previously bishop of Asaph
Marmaduke Middleton † 1593	1582 to 1592	previously Bishop of Waterford and Lismore
vacant	1592 to 1594
Anthony Rudd † March 7, 1615	1594 to 1615
Richard Milbourne † May 1624	1615 to 1621	then Bishop of Carlisle
William Laud * October 7, 1573 ; † January 10, 1645	1621 to 1626	then Bishop of Bath and Wells, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury
Theophilus Field † June 2, 1636	1627 to 1635	previously Bishop of Llandaff ; subsequently Bishop of Hereford
Roger Mainwaring † July 1, 1653 }	1636 to 1653
vacant	1653 to 1660
William Lucy † October 4, 1677	1660 to 1677
William Thomas † June 25, 1689	1678 to 1683	then Bishop of Worcester
Lawrence Womach † March 12, 1686	1683 to 1686
John Lloyd † February 13, 1687	1686 to 1687
Thomas Watson † June 3, 1717	1687 to 1699	he was suspended on August 21, 1694 and withdrawn on August 3, 1699 a . a. because of simony
vacant	1699 to 1705
George Bull * March 25, 1634 - † February 17, 1710	1705 to 1710
Philip Bisse † September 6, 1721	1710 to 1713	then Bishop of Hereford
Adam Ottley † October 3, 1723	1713 to 1723
Richard Smalbroke † December 22, 1749	1724 to 1731	then Bishop of Lichfield
Elias Sydall † December 24, 1733	April 1731 to November 1731	then Bishop of Gloucester
Nicholas Clagget † December 8, 1746	1732 to 1742	then Bishop of Exeter
Edward Willes * March 6, 1694 - † November 24, 1773	January 1743 to December 1743	then Bishop of Bath and Wells
Hon. Richard Trevor † June 9, 1771	1744 to 1752	thereafter Bishop of Durham
Anthony Ellis † January 16, 1761	1753 to 1761
Samuel Squire † May 7, 1766	1761 to 1766
Robert Lowth † November 3, 1787	June 1766 to October 1766	then Bishop of Oxford and Bishop of London
Charles Moss † April 13, 1802	1766 to 1774	then Bishop of Bath and Wells
Hon. James Yorke † August 26, 1808	1774 to 1779	then Bishop of Gloucester and Ely
John Warren † January 27, 1800	1779 to 1783	then Bishop of Bangor
Edward Smallwell † June 26, 1799	1783 to 1788	then Bishop of Oxford
Samuel Horsley * September 15, 1733 ; † October 4, 1806	1788 to 1793	then Bishop of Rochester and St. Asaph
Hon. William Stuart * March 1755 ; † May 6, 1822	1794 to 1800	then Archbishop of Armagh
Lord George Murray * January 30, 1761 ; † June 3, 1803	1801 to 1803
Thomas Burgess * November 18, 1756 ; † February 19, 1837	1803 to 1825	then Bishop of Salisbury
John Banks Jenkinson † July 6, 1840	1825 to 1840
Connop Thirlwall * February 11, 1797 ; † July 27, 1875	1840 to 1874
William Basil Jones * January 2, 1822 ; † January 14, 1897	1874 to 1897
John Owen * August 24, 1854 ; † November 4, 1926	1897 to 1926
David Lewis Prosser , LLD born June 10, 1868 ; † February 28, 1950	1927 to 1950	Archbishop of Wales from 1944 to 1949
William Havard * October 23, 1889 ; † August 17, 1956	1950 to 1956	before that bishop in St. Asaph
John Richards Richards, DD * March 3, 1901 ; † March 10, 1990	1956 to 1971
Eric Matthias Roberts, MA * February 18, 1914 ; † March 29, 1997	1971 to 1982
George Noakes * September 13, 1924 ; † July 14, 2008	1982 to 1991	Archbishop of Wales from 1987 to 1991
J. Ivor Rees * February 19, 1926	1991 to 1995
Huw Jones	1995 to 2002
Carl N. Cooper	2002 to 2008
John Wyn Evans	2008 to 2016
Joanna Penberthy	since 2016

literature

• Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, pp. 279 to 280

Web links

• List of Bishops (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personal data (German)
2. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 264.
3. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 261.
4. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 211.
5. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 226.
6. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 217.
7. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 258.
8. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 217.
9. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 217.
10. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 214.
11. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 231.
12. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 262.
13. ↑ Bull, George . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 7:  Brown - Burthogge. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1886, p. 236 (English).
14. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 231.
15. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 235.
16. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 228.
17. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 227.
18. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 221.
19. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 241.
20. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 207.
21. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 225.
22. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 276.
23. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, p. 245.
24. ^ Horsley, Samuel . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 1: From the earliest times to 1751 , volume 2 : Dabbs-Juxton . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1922, pp. 410 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
25. ↑ Most Rev. Hon. William Stuart on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.
26. ^ Murray, George (1761-1803) . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 39:  Morehead - Myles. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1894, p. 361 (English).
27. ↑ Burgess, Thomas . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 4 : Bishārīn - Calgary . London 1910, p. 814 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
28. ↑ Thirlwall, Connop . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 26 : Submarine Mines - Tom-Tom . London 1911, p. 851 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
29. ↑ Short biography (English).
30. ↑ Short biography (English).
31. ↑ Short biography (English).
32. ↑ Obituary. In: Times .
33. ↑ Short biography ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English). 
34. ↑ Short biography (English).
35. ^ ChurchinWales: New Bishop of St Davids elected