List of the Bishops of Chester

The List of Bishops of Chester represents the episcopal titleholders of the Church of England , the Diocese of Chester, in the Province of York .

List of the Bishops of Chester
From	To	Surname	Remarks
1542	1554	John Bird	previously Bishop of Penrydd and Bangor
1554	1555	George Cotes
1556	1559	Cuthbert Scott
1561	1577	William Downham
1579	1595	William Chaderton	then Bishop of Lincoln
1595	1596	Hugh Bellot	previously Bishop of Bangor
1597	1604	Richard Vaughan	before Bishop of Bangor , then before Bishop of London
1604	1615	George Lloyd	previously Bishop of Sodor and Man
1616	1619	Thomas Morton	then Bishop of Lichfield and Durham
1619	1646	John Bridgeman
1646	1660	canceled
1660	1661	Brian Walton
1662	1662	Henry afar
1662	1668	George Hall	also Archdeacon of Canterbury
1668	1672	John Wilkins
1673	1686	John Pearson
1686	1689	Thomas Cartwright
1689	1707	Nicholas Stratford
1708	1714	William Dawes	then Archbishop of York
1714	1725	Francis Gastrell
1726	1752	Samuel Peploe
1752	1771	Edmund Keene	then Bishop of Ely
1771	1776	William Markham	then Archbishop of York
1776	1787	Beilby Porteus	then Bishop of London
1788	1800	William Cleaver	then Bishop of Bangor and Saint Asaph
1800	1809	Henry Majendie	then Bishop of Bangor
1810	1812	Bowyer Sparke	then Bishop of Ely
1812	1824	George Law	then Bishop of Bath and Wells
1824	1828	Charles Blomfield	then Bishop of London
1828	1848	John Sumner	then Archbishop of Canterbury
1848	1865	John Graham
1865	1884	William Jacobson
1884	1889	William Stubbs	then Bishop of Oxford
1889	1919	Francis Jayne
1919	1932	Luke Paget	previously Bishop of Ipswich and Stepney
1932	1939	Geoffrey Fisher	then Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury
1939	1955	Douglas Crick	previously Bishop of Stafford
1955	1973	Gerald Ellison	previously Bishop of Willesden , then Bishop of London
1974	1981	Victor Whitsey	previously Bishop of Hertford
1982	1996	Michael Baughen
1996	present	Peter R. Forster

literature

• Church House Publishing (Ed.): Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/09 (=  Crockford's Clerical Directory . No. 100 ). London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0 , pp. 1145 (English).
• Pryde, Greenway, Porter, and Roy: Handbook of British Chronology . (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks). Ed .: Cambridge University Press. No. 3 . Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-56350-X , pp. 645 (English).