List of the Bishops of Bristol

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The following people were bishops of Bristol ( England ):

Term of office	Surname	Remarks
1538 - 1542	Henry Holbeach	then Bishop of Rochester
1542 - 1554	Paul Bush (Paul Bushe)
1554 - December 1558	John Holyman
1558 - 1562	vacancy
1562 - 1579	Richard Cheyney (Richard Cheney)
1579 - 1581	vacancy
1581 - 1589	John Bullingham
1589 - 1593	Richard Fletcher	then Bishop of Worcester
1593 - 1603	vacancy
1603 - 1617	John Thornborough	previously Bishop of Limerick, then Bishop of Worcester
1617 - 1619	Nicholas Felton	then Bishop of Ely
1619 - 1622	Rowland Searchfield
1623 - 1632	Robert Wright	then Bishop of Lichfield & Coventry
1633 - 1636	George Coke (George Cook)	then Bishop of Hereford
1637 - 1641	Robert Skinner	then Bishop of Oxford
1642 - 1644	Thomas Westfield
1644 - 1646	Thomas Howell
1646 - 1660	vacancy
1661 - 1671	Gilbert Ironside
1672 - 1679	Guy Carleton	then Bishop of Chichester
1679 - 1684	William Gulston
1684 - 1685	John Lake	previously Bishop of Sodor & Man, then Bishop of Chichester
1685 - 1689	Jonathan Trelawney , bt.	then Bishop of Exeter
1689 - 1691	Gilbert Ironside	then Bishop of Hereford
1691 - 1710	John Hall
1710 - 1714	John Robinson	then Bishop of London
1714 - 1719	George Smalridge
1719 - 1724	Hugh Boulter	then Archbishop of Armagh
1724 - 1732	William Bradshaw
1733 - 1734	Charles Cecil	then Bishop of Bangor
1735 - 1737	Thomas Secker	then Bishop of Oxford
1737 - 1738	Thomas Gooch	then Bishop of Norwich
1738 - 1750	Joseph Butler	thereafter Bishop of Durham
1750 - 1755	John Conybeare
1756 - 1758	John Hume
1758 - 1761	Philip Yonge
1761 - 1782	Thomas Newton
1782 - 1783	Lewis Bagot	then Bishop of Norwich
1783 - 1792	Christopher Wilson
1792 - 1794	Spencer Madan	then Bishop of Peterborough
1794 - 1797	Henry Reginald Courtenay	then Bishop of Exeter
1797 - 1802	Folliot Herbert Walker Cornewall	then Bishop of Hereford
1802 - 1807	George Pelham	then Bishop of Exeter
1807 - 1808	John Luxmore	then Bishop of Hereford
1808 - 1820	William Lort Mansel
1820 - 1827	John Kaye	then Bishop of Lincoln
1827 - 1834	Robert Gray
1834 - 1836	Joseph Allen	then Bishop of Ely, also Bishop of Gloucester
October 7, 1836 - June 6, 1856	James Henry Monk	also Bishop of Gloucester
July 9, 1856 - 1861	Charles Baring	thereafter Bishop of Durham
December 1861 - 1863	William Thomson	then Archbishop of York
30th January 1863 - 1897	Charles John Ellicott , DD
1897 - 1914	Forrest Browne
1914 - 1933	George Nickson
1933 - 1946	Clifford Woodward
1946 - 1958	Frederick Cockin
1958 - 1975	Oliver Tomkins
1976 - 1985	John Tinsley
1985 - November 30, 2002	Barry Rogerson
2003 - today	Michael Arthur Hill	also Bishop of Buckingham