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1542

Robert King
Suffragan of Lincoln, first Bishop of Oxford, the seat of the Bishopric being at Osney

1559

Thomas Goldwell
Bishop of St Asaph 1558 Fled to Milan and Rome

Nine years vacancy
1567

Hugh Coren or Curwen
Archbishop of Dublin

Twenty-one years vacancy

1589

John Underhill
Rector of Lincoln College

Eleven years vacancy

1604

John Bridges
Dean of Salisbury

1619

John Howson
Student of Christ Church

1628

Richard Corbet
Dean of Christ Church

1632

John Bancroft
Master of University College

1641

Robert Skinner
Bishop of Bristol (deprived during the Commonwealth but restored 1660)

1663

William Paul
Dean of Lichfield

1665

Walter Blandford
Warden of Wadham College

1671

Nathanial, Lord Crewe
Rector of Lincoln and Dean of Chichester

1674

Henry Compton
Canon of Christ Church

1676

John Fell
Dean of Christ Church

1686

Samuel Parker
Archdeacon of Canterbury

1688

Timothy Hall
(denied installation by the Chapter of Christ Church)

1690

John Hough
President of Magdalen College

1699

William Talbot
Dean of Worcester

1715

John Potter
Regius Professor of Divinity

1737

Thomas Secker
Bishop of Bristol

1758

John Hume
Bishop of Bristol

1766

Robert Louth
Bishop of St David's

1777

John Butler
Prebendary of Winchester

1788

Edward Smallwell
Bishop of St David's

1799

John Randolph
Regius Professor of Divinity

1807

Charles Moss

1832

William Jackson
Regius Professor of Greek

1816

Edward Legge
Dean of Windsor

1827

Charles Lloyd
Regius Professor of Divinity

1829

Richard Bagot
Dean of Canterbury

1845

Samuel Wilberforce
Dean of Westminster

1870

John Fielder Mackarness
Prebendary of Exeter

1889

William Stubbs
Bishop of Chester

1901

Francis Paget
Dean of Christ Church

1911

Charles Gore
Bishop of Birmingham (resigned See of Oxford 1919)

1919

Hubert Murray Burge
Bishop of southwark

1925

Thomas Banks Strong
Bishop of Ripon (resigned See of Oxford 1937)

1937

Kenneth Escott Kirk
Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology

1955

Harry James Carpenter
Warden of Keble (resigned See of Oxford 1970)

1971

Kenneth John Woollcombe
Principal of Edinburgh Theological College (resigned See of Oxford 1978)

1978

Patrick Campbell Rodger
Bishop of Manchester (resigned See of Oxford 1986)

1987

Richard Douglas Harries
Dean of King's College, London (resigned See of Oxford 2006)

2007

John Pritchard - More
Bishop of Jarrow