Bishops of Oxford

Thursday 18th November 2004

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 Info
Bishop of Jarrow

   

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