List of the bishops of St Asaph

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The following people were bishops of the Diocese of St Asaph in Wales :

  • 583 - ??? Saint Kentigern ( Saint Mungo ) (also Bishop of Glasgow)
  • Asaph (Asa)
  • ...
  • around 600 Tysilio
  • around 800 Renchidus
  • around 928 Cebur
  • around 1070 Melanus
  • 1143–1152 Gilbertus (Galfridus)
  • 1152-1154 Geoffrey of Monmouth
  • 1154-1155 Richard
  • 1155–1175 Godefridus (Godfrey)
  • 1175-1183 Adam
  • 1183–1186 John I (John)
  • 1186–1225 Reinerus (Reyner, Reiner)
  • 1225-1235 Abraham
  • 1235–1240 Hugo (Hugh; Hywel I.)
  • 1240 to approx. 1247 Howel ap Ednevet (Hywel II. From Ednyfed)
  • approx. 1247-1249 vacant
  • 1249-1267 Anian I.
  • 1267-1268 John
  • 1268-1293 Anian II
  • 1293–1314 Leoline de Bromfeld (Llywelyn Bromfield)
  • 1314-1352 David I.
  • 1352-1357 John Trevor I
  • 1357-1376 Leoline ap Madoc
  • 1376-1382 William de Sprinlington
  • 1382-1390 Lawrence Child
  • 1390–1395 Alexander Bache
  • 1395–1402 John Trevor II
  • 1402-1411 David II
  • 1411-1433 Robert de Lancaster
  • 1433–1444 John Lowe (then Bishop of Rochester)
  • 1444–1450 Reginald Pecock (then Bishop of Chichester)
  • 1450–1461 Thomas I.
  • 1461–1472 Thomas II.
  • 1472–1495 Richard Redman (then Bishop of Exeter)
  • 1495-1499 Michael Dyacon
  • 1499-1503 David III.
  • 1503-1513 David IV.
  • 1513-1518 Edmund Birkhead
  • 1518-1535 Henry Standish
  • 1535–1536 William Barlow (afterwards Bishop of St. David's)
  • 1536–1554 Robert Warton (Robert Parfew; Robert Parfoy) (also Bishop of Hereford)
  • 1554–1559 Thomas III. Goldwell (last Roman Catholic bishop)
  • 1559–1561 Richard Davies (also Bishop of St. David's)
  • 1561–1573 Thomas IV. Davies
  • 1573–1603 William Morgan (before that Bishop of Llandaff)
  • 1603-1622 Richard Parry
  • 1622-1629 John Hamner
  • 1629-1651 John Owen
  • 1651-1660 vacant
  • 1660–1667 George Griffith
  • 1667-1669 Henry Glenham
  • 1669–1680 Isaac Barrow (previously Bishop of Sodor & Man)
  • 1680–1692 William Lloyd (previously Bishop of Lichfield & Coventry)
  • 1692–1703 Edward Jones (before that Bishop of Cloynes)
  • 1703–1704 George Hooper (then Bishop of Bath & Wells)
  • 1704-1708 William Beveridge
  • 1708–1714 William Fleetwood (afterwards Bishop of Ely)
  • 1714–1727 John Wynne (later Bishop of Bath & Wells)
  • 1727–1731 Francis Hare (then Bishop of Chichester)
  • 1731–1736 Thomas Tanner
  • 1736–1743 Isaac Maddox (then Bishop of Worcester)
  • 1743–1743 John Thomas (elected, Bishop of Lincoln before consecration)
  • 1743–1748 Samuel Lisle (afterwards Bishop of Norwich)
  • 1748–1761 Robert Drummond (later Bishop of Salisbury)
  • 1761–1769 Richard Newcombe (before that, Bishop of Llandaff)
  • 1769–1789 John Shipley (before that Bishop of Llandaff)
  • 1789–1790 Samuel Halifax (previously Bishop of Gloucester)
  • 1790–1802 Lewis Bagot (before that Bishop of Norwich)
  • 1802–1806 Samuel Horsley (previously Bishop of Rochester)
  • 1806–1815 William Cleaver (before that, Bishop of Bangor)
  • 1815–1830 John Luxmore (previously Bishop of Hereford)
  • 1830–1846 William Carey (previously Bishop of Exeter)
  • 1846–1870 Thomas Vowler Short (before that, Bishop of Sodor & Man)
  • 1870-1889 Joshua Hughes
  • 1889–1934 Alfred George Edwards (also Archbishop of Wales)
  • 1934–1950 William Thomas Havard
  • 1950–1971 David Daniel Bartlett, DD
  • 1971–1982 Harold John Charles, MA
  • 1982–1999 Alwyn Rice Jones (also Archbishop of Wales 1991–1999)
  • 1999-2008 John Stewart Davies
  • 2009- Gregory Cameron