List of the bishops of Hereford

The following people were bishops of Hereford , England :

Putta is considered the first bishop of Hereford. In some sources, Magonset is also given as the first bishop. His term of office is said to have been from 670 to 676. Basically, the figures up to around 1050 are only vague, as the sources from this time only provide very unclear information. From 1535 the first bishops turned to the Reformation. In 1559 the last bishop belonged to the Roman Catholic Church , then to the Church of England :

Bishops of Hereford
Name (life data)	Term of office	annotation	image
Putta † around 688	676 to 688	he is not identical to the Bishop of Rochester
Tyrhtel	688 to 705/710
Torhthere	710 to 727/731
Weahlstod	727/731 to 731/736
Cuthbert	736 to 740	then Archbishop of Canterbury
Podda	741 to 747/758
Acca (Ecca)	747/758 to 758/770
Headda (Ceadda)	758/770 to 770/777
Ealdberht	777 to 781/787
Esne	781/787 to 787/788
Ceolmund	787/788 to 793/798
Utel	793/798 to 801
Wulfheard	801 to 822/824
Beonna	824 to 825/832
Eadwulf	825/832 to 836/839
Cuthwulf	836/839 to 857/866
Deorlaf	857/866 to 884/888
Cynemund	888 to 888/901
Eadgar	888/901 to 930/931
Tidhelm	930/931 to 937
Wulfhelm	937 to 937/940
Ælfric	937/940 to 951/955
Æthelwulf	951/955 to 1012
Athelstan † February 10, 1056	1012 to 1056
Leofgar	1056
Ealdred	1056 to 1060	at the same time also Bishop of Worcester , then Archbishop of York
Walter of Lorraine	1061 to 1079
Robert de Losinga † June 26, 1095	1079 to 1095
Gerard of Roðem	1096 to 1100	then Archbishop of York
Vacant	1101 to 1107
Reynelm de Bec † 27./28. October 1115	1107 to 1115
Geoffrey de Clive † February 2, 1119	1115 to 1119
Vacant	1119 to 1121
Richard de Capella † August 15, 1127	1121 to 1127
Vacant	1127 to 1131
Robert de Bethune † April 16, 1148	1131 to 1148
Gilbert Foliot † February 18, 1187	1148 to 1163	then Bishop of London
Robert de Melun † February 27, 1167	1163 to 1167
Vacant	1167 to 1174
Robert Foliot † May 9, 1186	1174 to 1186
William de Vere † December 24, 1198	1186 to 1198
Giles de Braose † after November 18, 1215	1200 to 1215	the Braose house
Hugh de Mapenore † April 16, 1219	1216 to 1219
Hugh Foliot † August 7, 1234	1219 to 1234
Ralph de Maidstone † January 27, 1245	1234 to 1239	gave up the office on December 17, 1239. Blason (English) : Sable a Chevron between three Cups covered Argent crowned Or
Peter d'Aigueblanche † November 27, 1268	1240 to 1268
John le Breton † before May 12, 1275	1269 to 1275
Thomas de Cantilupe † August 25, 1282	1275 to 1282	previously Lord Chancellor
Richard Swinfield † March 15, 1317	1283 to 1317
Adam Orleton † July 18, 1345	1317 to 1327	then Bishop of Worcester and Winchester
Thomas Charleton † January 11, 1344	1327 to 1344
John Trilleck † November 30, 1360	1344 to 1360
Louis Charleton † May 23, 1369	1361 to 1369
William Courtenay † July 31, 1396	1370 to 1375	then Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor
John Gilbert † July 28, 1397	1375 to 1389	before that Bishop of Bangor ; then Bishop of St. Davids
John Trefnant † between March 26 and April 23, 1404	1389 to 1404
Robert Maschal † December 22, 1416	1404 to 1416
Edmund Lacy † September 18, 1455	1417 to 1420	then Bishop of Exeter
Thomas Polton † August 23, 1433	1420 to 1421	then Bishop of Chichester and Worcester
Thomas Spofford	1422 to 1448	Released office in December 1448
Richard Beauchamp † November 4, 1481	1449 to 1450	then Bishop of Salisbury
Reginald Boulers † between March 24 and April 10, 1459	1451 to 1453	then Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
John Stanbury † May 11, 1474	1453 to 1474	before that Bishop of Bangor
Thomas Milling † after January 12, 1492	1474 to 1492
Edmund Audley † August 23, 1524	1492 to 1502	before that Bishops of Rochester ; then Bishop of Salisbury
Adriano de Castello † 1521	1502 to 1504	then Bishop of Bath and Wells
Richard Mayo † April 18, 1516	1504 to 1516
Charles Booth † May 5, 1535	1516 to 1535	and Chancellor of the Welsh Marches
Edward Foxe † May 8, 1538	1535 to 1538	elected Anglican - Synod President
Edmund Bonner † September 5, 1569	1538 to 1539	He was elected but was not ordained as Bishop of Hereford. He then became Bishop of London.
John Skippe (or Skyppe) † March 28, 1552	1539 to 1552
John Harley † 1557/58	1553 to 1554	he was deposed in March 1554.
Robert Parfew (or Parfoye or Wharton) † September 22, 1557	1554 to 1557	before that Bishop of St. Asaphs
Thomas Raynold † November 24, 1559	1558 to 1559	he was the last Roman Catholic bishop, although he was never ordained
John Scory † June 25, 1585	1559 to 1585	before that Bishop of Chichester
Herbert Westfaling † March 1, 1602	1585 to 1602
Robert Bennett † October 20, 1617	1603 to 1617
Francis Godwin † after April 29, 1633	1617 to 1633	before that Bishop of Llandaff
William Juxton † June 4, 1663	October 1633	only elected, but then as Bishop to London and later Archbishop of Canterbury
Augustine Lindsell † November 6, 1634	March 1634 to November 1634	before that Bishop of Peterborough
Matthew Wren † April 24, 1667	March 1635 to December 1635	then Bishop of Norwich and Ely
Theophilus Field † June 2, 1636	1635 to 1636	before that Bishop of St. Davids
George Coke † December 10, 1646	1636 to 1646	before that Bishop of Bristol
Vacant	1646 to 1660
Nicholas Monck † December 17, 1661	1660 to 1661
Herbert Croft † May 18, 1691	1662 to 1691
Gilbert Ironside † August 27, 1701	1691 to 1701	before that Bishop of Bristol
Humphrey Humphries † November 20, 1712	1701 to 1712	before that Bishop of Bangor
Philip Bisse † September 6, 1721	1713 to 1721	before that Bishop of St. Davids
Benjamin Hoadley † April 7, 1761	1721 to 1723	before that Bishop of Bangor; then Bishop of Salisbury and Winchester
Henry Egerton † April 1, 1746	1724 to 1746
James Beauclerk † October 20, 1787	1746 to 1787
John Harley † January 9, 1788	1787 to 1788
John Butler † December 10, 1802	1788 to 1802	before that Bishop of Oxford
Ffoliot Herbert Walker Cornewall † September 5, 1831	1803 to 1808	before that Bishop of Bristol; then Bishop of Worcester
John Luxmoore † January 21, 1830	1808 to 1815	before that Bishop of Bristol; then Bishop of St. Asaphs
George Isaac Huntingford † April 29, 1832	1815 to 1832	before that Bishop of Gloucester
Edward Gray † June 24, 1837	1832 to 1837
Thomas Musgrave † May 4, 1860	1837 to 1847	then Archbishop of York
Renn Dickson Hampden † April 23, 1868	1848 to 1868
James Atlay † December 24, 1894	1868 to 1894
John Percival † December 3, 1918	1895 to 1917	He is on 31 October 1917 resigned
Herbert Hensley Henson † September 28, 1947	1918 to 1920	thereafter Bishop of Durham
(Martin) Linton Smith † March 9, 1944	1920 to 1930	before that, suffragan bishop of Warrington ; then Bishop of Rochester
Charles Lisle Carr † February 2, 1942	1930 to 1941	He is the thirtieth September 1941 resigned
Richard Godfrey Parsons † December 26, 1948	1941 to 1948	before that, Suffragan Bishop of Middleton and Bishop of Southwark
Tom Longworth	1949 to 1961	before that suffragan bishop of Pontefract
Mark Allin Hodson	1961 to 1974	before that, suffragan bishop of Taunton
John Richard Gordon Eastaugh	1974 to 1990
John Keith Oliver	1990 to 2003
Anthony Martin Priddis	2004 to 2013
Richard Frith	since 2014

Web links

• List of Bishops
• List of Catholic bishops in Catholic Encyclopedia (English)
• List from 1066 to 1300 on www.british-history.ac.uk (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Unless otherwise noted, all information is from Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, pages 229 to 231
2. ↑ Patrick Sims-Williams, Putta (dc688) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , as viewed September 3, 2011
3. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 239
4. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 258
5. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 211
6. ^ ^{A b} Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 279
7. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 226
8. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 261
9. ^ ^{A b} Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 252
10. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 234
11. ^ TF Mayer, Castellesi, Adriano (c.1461–1521) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , as viewed September 3, 2011
12. ↑ Kenneth Carleton, Bonner, Edmund (d. 1569) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 viewed on September 3, 2011
13. ^ Gordon Goodwin, Harley, John (d. 1557/8) , Rev. Andrew A. Chibi, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 seen on September 3, 2011
14. ↑ Kenneth Carleton, Raynold, Thomas (d. 1559) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2005; online edn, Jan 2008 viewed on 3rd September 2011
15. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 212
16. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 224
17. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 259
18. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 263
19. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 266
20. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 222
21. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 250