List of the Bishops of Oxford

The list of Bishops of Oxford represents the episcopal titleholders of the Church of England , the Diocese of Oxford, in the Province of Canterbury . The title was named after the city of Oxford .

List of the Bishops of Oxford
From	To	Surname	Remarks
1542	1558	Robert King	previously Bishop of Lincoln
1558	1559	Thomas Goldwell	incidentally Bishop of St Asaph
1559	1567	not occupied
1567	1568	Hugh Curwen (Hugh Coren)	previously Archbishop of Dublin
1568	1589	not occupied
1589	1592	John Underhill
1592	1604	not occupied
1604	1618	John Bridges
1619	1628	John Howson	thereafter Bishop of Durham
1628	1632	Richard Corbet	then Bishop of Norwich
1632	1641	John Bancroft
1641	1663	Robert Skinner	previously Bishop of Bristol and then Bishop of Worcester
1663	1665	William Paul
1665	1671	Walter Blandford	then Bishop of Worcester
1671	1674	Nathaniel crew	thereafter Bishop of Durham
1674	1676	Henry Compton	then Bishop of London
1676	1686	John Fell
1686	1687	Samuel Parker	previously Archdeacon of Canterbury
1688	1690	Timothy Hall
1690	1699	John Hough	then Bishop of Lichfield and Bishop of Worcester
1699	1715	William Talbot	then Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham
1715	1737	John Potter	then Archbishop of Canterbury
1737	1758	Thomas Secker	previously Bishop of Bristol and then Archbishop of Canterbury
1758	1766	John Hume	previously Bishop of Bristol and then Bishop of Salisbury
1766	1777	Robert Lowth	previously Bishop of St David and then Bishop of London
1777	1788	John Butler	then Bishop of Hereford
1788	1799	Edward Smallwell	previously Bishop of St David
1799	1807	John Randolph	then Bishop of Bangor and Bishop of London
1807	1811	Charles Moss
1812	1815	William Jackson
1816	1827	Edward Legge
1827	1829	Charles Lloyd
1829	1845	Richard Bagot	previously Dean of Canterbury and then Bishop of Bath and Wells
1845	1869	Samuel Wilberforce	then Bishop of Winchester
1870	1889	John Mackarness
1889	1901	William Stubbs	previously Bishop of Chester
1901	1911	Francis Paget
1911	1919	Charles Gore	previously Bishop of Worcester and Bishop of Birmingham
1919	1925	Hubert Burge	previously Bishop of Southwark
1925	1937	Thomas Strong	previously Bishop of Ripon
1937	1954	Kenneth Kirk
1955	1970	Harry Carpenter
1971	1978	Kenneth Woollcombe
1978	1986	Patrick Campbell Rodger	previously Bishop of Manchester
1987	2006	Richard Harries
2007	2014	John Pritchard	previously Archdeacon of Canterbury and Bishop of Jarrow
2016	present	Steven Croft	previously Bishop of Sheffield

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 978-0-521-56350-5 , pp. 645 (English).

Web links

• The Oxford Gazette number 1, page 1, online at Thegazette.co.uk