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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

  
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