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Bishops of Exeter

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Pre-Conquest

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Bishops of Crediton
From Until Incumbent Notes
c.909934Eadwulf
934c.952/53Æthelgar
953972 Ælfwold I
973977SidemanDied on 30 April 977 or 1 or 2 May 977.
c.977/79c.986/87Ælfric
c.986/87?Ælfwold II
?c.990Alfred of Malmesbury[2]
?c.1011/15Ælfwold III
c.1011/15c.1019/23Eadnoth
10271046LyfingAlso Bishop of Cornwall and Worcester; died in March 1046.
10461050LeofricConsecrated on 19 April 1046; also Bishop of Cornwall; became the first Bishop of Exeter in 1050.
In 1050, Leofric transferred the see to Exeter.[3]
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Pre-Reformation

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Bishops of Exeter
From Until Portrait Incumbent Arms Notes
1050[6]1072Leofric
10711103Osbern FitzOsbern
11071138William Warelwast
11381155Robert Warelwast
11551160Robert of Chichester
11611184Bartholomew Iscanus
11861191John the Chanter
12061214[7]vacant
12141223Simon of Apulia
12241244William Briwere[8]
12451257Richard Blund
12581280Walter Branscombe[9]
12801291Peter Quinel[10]
12911307Thomas Bitton[11]
13081326Walter de Stapledon
13261327James Berkeley
1327John Godeley[12]
13271369John Grandisson
13701394Thomas de Brantingham[13]
13951419Edmund Stafford
Dates of reignNamePortraitArms[14]
1050–1072[15]LeofricPre-heraldic
1072–1103Osbern FitzOsbernPre-heraldic
1107–1138William WarelwastPre-heraldic
1138–1155Robert WarelwastPre-heraldic
1155–1160Robert of ChichesterPre-heraldic
1161–1184Bartholomew IscanusPre-heraldic
1186–1191John the ChanterPre-heraldic
1194–1206Henry MarshalPre-heraldic
1206–1214[16]Vacant
1214–1223Simon of Apulia
1224–1244[17]William Briwere
1245–1257[18]Richard Blund
1258–1280[19]Walter Branscombe
1280–1291[20]Peter Quinel
1291–1307[21]Thomas Bitton
1308–1326Walter de Stapledon
1326–1327James Berkeley
1327[22]John Godeley
1327–1369John Grandisson
1370–1394[23]Thomas de Brantingham
1395–1419Edmund Stafford
1419[24]John Catterick
1420–1455[25]Edmund Lacey
1455–1456[26]John Hales
1458–1465[27]George Neville
1465–1478John Booth
1478–1487[28]Peter Courtenay
1487–1492[29]Richard Foxe
1493–1495[29]Oliver King
1496–1502[30]Richard Redman
1502–1504[31]John Arundel
1505–1519Hugh Oldham

During the Reformation

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Dates of reignNamePortraitArms
1519–1551[32][4][33][34]John Vesey
1551–1553[35][4][33][34]Myles Coverdale
1553–1554[36][4][33][34]John Vesey
1555–1560[4][33][34]James Turberville

Post-Reformation

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Post-Reformation Bishops of Exeter
From Until Incumbent Notes
1560 1571 William Alley Also recorded as William Alleyn
1571 1578 William Bradbridge
1579 1594 John Woolton
1595 1597 Gervase Babington Translated to Worcester
1598 1621 William Cotton
1621 1626 Valentine Cary
1627 1641 Joseph Hall Translated to Norwich
1642 1646 Ralph Brownrigg Deprived of the see when the English episcopacy was abolished by Parliament on 9 October 1646; died 1659.
1646 1660 The see was abolished during the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.[37][38]
1660 1662 John Gauden Translated to Worcester
1662 1667 Seth Ward Translated to Salisbury
1667 1676 Anthony Sparrow Translated to Norwich
1676 1688 Thomas Lamplugh Translated to York
1689 1707 Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bt. Translated from Bristol; later translated to Winchester
1708 1716 Ofspring Blackall
1717 1724 Lancelot Blackburne Translated to York
1724 1742 Stephen Weston
1742 1746 Nicholas Clagett Translated from St David's
1747 1762 George Lavington
1762 1777 Frederick Keppel
1778 1792 John Ross
1792[39] 1796 William Buller
1797 1803 Reginald Courtenay Translated from Bristol
1803 1807 John Fisher Translated to Salisbury
1807 1820 George Pelham Translated from Bristol; later translated to Lincoln
1820 1830 William Carey Translated to St Asaph
1830 Christopher Bethell Translated from Gloucester; later translated to Bangor
1831 1869 Henry Phillpotts
1869 1885 Frederick Temple Translated to London
1885 1900 Edward Bickersteth
1901 1903 Herbert Edward Ryle Translated to Winchester
1903 1916 Archibald Robertson
1916 1936 Lord William Cecil
1936 1948 Charles Curzon Translated from Stepney
1949 1973 Robert Mortimer
1973 1985 Eric MercerTranslated from Birkenhead
1985 1999 Hewlett Thompson Translated from Willesden
1999 2013[40] Michael Langrish Translated from Birkenhead
2014 2023 Robert Atwell Translated from Stockport;[41] retired 30 September 2023.[42]
2024 present Mike Harrison Translated from Dunwich, 25 September 2024.[43]


Source(s):[4][33]

See also

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References

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  1. "Heraldry finds its purpose in the royal wedding". Telegraph. 2011-04-22. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  2. Joseph Thomas (1 January 2010). The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. Cosimo, Inc. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-61640-069-9.
  3. Cite error: The named reference exeterecchisory was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Historical successions: Exeter (including precussor offices)". Crockford's Clerical Directory. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  5. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 287. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  6. The first to unite and transfer the Sees of Crediton and Cornwall to Exeter
  7. See vacant due to Pope Innocent III's interdict against King John's realms
  8. Aliter William Brewer
  9. Aliter Walter Bronescombe
  10. Aliter Peter de Quivel or Quivil
  11. Aliter Thomas de Bytton
  12. Also recorded as John Godele. Elected, but quashed
  13. Aliter Thomas Brantyngham
  14. Izacke, Richard (c.1624–1698), (improved and continued to the year 1724 by Samuel Izacke), Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter, 3rd Edition, London, 1731, A Perfect Catalogue of all the Bishops of this Church ... together with the Coats of Armory and Mottoes Described, pp.25-50
  15. The first to unite and transfer the Sees of Crediton and Cornwall to Exeter
  16. See vacant due to Pope Innocent III's interdict against King John's realms
  17. Aliter William Brewer
  18. Aliter Richard Blundy
  19. Aliter Walter Bronescombe
  20. Aliter Peter de Quivel or Quivil
  21. Aliter Thomas de Bytton
  22. Also recorded as John Godele. Elected, but quashed
  23. Aliter Thomas Brantyngham
  24. Aliter John Ketterick, translated from Lichfield
  25. Also recorded as Edmund Lacy. Translated from Hereford
  26. Appointed, but resigned before consecration
  27. Translated to York
  28. Translated to Winchester
  29. 1 2 Translated to Bath and Wells
  30. Translated from St Asaph; later translated to Ely
  31. Translated from Lichfield
  32. (deposed, Roman Catholic)
  33. 1 2 3 4 5 Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 246–248. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  34. 1 2 3 4 Horn, J. M. (1962). "Bishops of Exeter". Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541: Volume 9: Exeter Diocese. British History Online. pp. 1–3.
  35. Protestant
  36. recovered, Roman Catholic)
  37. Plant, David (2002). "Episcopalians". BCW Project. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  38. King, Peter (July 1968). "The Episcopate during the Civil Wars, 1642-1649". The English Historical Review. 83 (328). Oxford University Press: 523–537. doi:10.1093/ehr/lxxxiii.cccxxviii.523. JSTOR 564164.
  39. "No. 13457". The London Gazette. 8 September 1792. p. 694.
  40. BBC News – Bishop Langrish retires from office (Accessed 1 July 2013)
  41. Diocese of Exeter – Election of new Bishop of Exeter formally confirmed (Accessed 9 May 2014)
  42. "Bishop of Exeter Announces Retirement". Diocese of Exeter. 10 May 2023. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  43. Cite error: The named reference mhce was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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