List of Archbishops of Westminster

The following people were Bishop of Westminster , Vicars Apostolic in London and from 1850 Archbishops of the Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster :

Reformation time

• 1540–1550 Thomas Thirlby
  Henry VIII gave Thirlby this newly created office with the cathedral Westminster Abbey after the separation of the English Church from Rome ; it was not reoccupied after 1550. So this diocese of Westminster was Anglican. Thirlby later contributed to the re-Catholicization of Mary I , but as Bishop of Norwich and Ely.

Apostolic Vicariate

• 1623–1624 William Bishop ( Titular Bishop of Chalcedon and First Vicar Apostolic )
• 1624–1632 Richard Smith (Titular Bishop of Chalcedon)
• 1685-1702 John Leyburn
• 1703–1734 Bonaventure Giffard
• 1734-1758 Benjamin Petre OSB
• 1758–1781 Richard Challoner
• 1781–1790 James Robert Talbot
• 1790-1812 John Douglass
• 1812-1827 William Poynter
• 1827–1836 James Yorke Bramston (His coadjutor bishop , with the right of succession, was Robert Gradwell from 1828 , who died in 1833 before he could succeed him.)
• 1836–1847 Thomas Griffiths
• 1848–1849 Thomas Walsh
• 1849–1850 Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman (last vicar)

Archdiocese of Westminster

• 1850–1865 Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman (first Archbishop from 1850)
• 1865-1892 Henry Edward Manning
• 1892–1903 Herbert Vaughan (also Bishop of Salford)
• 1903–1934 Francis Alphonsus Bourne (also Bishop of Southwark)
• 1935–1943 Arthur Hinsley
• 1943–1956 Bernard William Griffin
• 1956–1963 William Godfrey (also Archbishop of Liverpool)
• 1963–1975 John Carmel Heenan (also Bishop of Leeds and Archbishop of Liverpool)
• 1975-1999 Basil Hume OSB
• 2000-2009 Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
• since 2009 Vincent Nichols