Bishops of Norwich

Of the sources quoted only the Catholic Encyclopedia lists Ralph de Norwich (1236).
His name needs to be included to agree with modern sources (eg Whitaker's Almanack)
which list Graham James as the 71st bishop.

                died
    1070-1086   Herfast   first Bishop of Thetford    
    1086-1091   William de Beaufeu        
1
   1091-1119   Herbert Losinga   moved see to Norwich in 1094   1119 or 1120
2
   1121-1145   Everard   Archdeacon of Salisbury
deposed 1145		   1150
3
   1146-1174   William de Turbe        
4
   1175-1200   John of Oxford   Dean of Salisbury    
5
   1200-1214   John de Gray   Archdeacon of Gloucester   1214
    1214-1222   see vacant        
6
   1222-1226   Pandulf Masca   legate of Pope Innocent III   16 Sept 1226
7
   1226-1236   Thomas Blunville   Clerk of the Royal Exchequer    
8
   1236   Ralph de Norwich        
    1236-1239   see vacant        
9
   1239-1244   William de Raley   Treasurer of Exeter
translated to Winchester 1244		   1250
10
   1245-1257   Walter Suffield       1257
11
   1258-1266   Simon de Wanton        
12
   1266-1278   Roger Skirnyng        
13
   1278-1288   William Middleton        
14
   1289-1299   Ralph Walpole   Archdeacon of Ely
translated to Ely 1299		    
15
   1299-1325   John Salmon   Prior of Ely
Lord Chancellor 1319-1323		   1325
16
   1325-1336   William Ayermin   Master of the Rolls    
17
   1337-1343   Antony Bek        
18
   1344-1355   William Bateman        
19
   1356-1369   Thomas Percy        
20
   1370-1406   Henry Spenser       1406
21
   1407-1413   Alexander Tottington        
22
   1413-1415   Richard Courtenay        
23
   1416-1425   John Wakering   Archdeacon of Canterbury    
24
   1426-1436   William Alnwick   Archdeacon of Salisbury
translated to Lincoln 1436		    
25
   1436-1445   Thomas Brown   Bishop of Rochester    
26
   1445-1472   Walter Hart (Le Hart)   Provost of Oriel College, Oxford    
27
   1472-1498   James Goldwell   Dean of Salisbury    
28
   1499-1500   Thomas Jane        
29
   1501-1536   Richard Nykke (Nix)   Archdeacon of Exeter and Canon of Windsor    
30
   1536-1550   William Rugg (Repps)   Abbot of St Bennet of Holm
resigned 1550		    
31
   1550-1554   Thomas Thirlby   first and last Bishop of Westminster
translated to Ely 1554		    
32
   1554-1558   John Hopton   chaplain to Queen Mary    
33
   1560-1575   John Parkhurst        
34
   1575-1584   Edmund Freak   Bishop of Rochester
translated to Worcester 1584		    
35
   1585-1594   Edmund Scambler   Bishop of Peterborough    
36
   1594-1602   William Redman   Archdeacon of Canterbury    
37
   1602-1617   John Jegon   Master of Bene't College, Cambridge    
38
   1618-1619   John Overall   Bishop of Lichfield    
39
   1619-1628   Samuel Harsnet   translated to York 1628    
40
   1628-1631   Francis White   translated to Ely 1631    
41
   1632-1635   Richard Corbet   Bishop of Norwich    
42
   1635-1638   Matthew Wren   translated to Ely 1638    
43
   1638-1641   Richard Montague   Bishop of Chichester    
44
   1641-1656   Joseph Hall   Bishop of Exeter   1656
45
   1661-1676   Edward Reynolds   Dean of christ Church Oxford    
46
   1676-1685   Antony Sparrow   Bishop of Exeter    
47
   1685-1691   William Lloyd  

Bishop of Llandaff
Bishop of Peterborough
deposed 1691

   1710
48
   1691-1707   John Moore   translated to Ely 1707    
49
   1708-1721   Charles Trimnell   translated to Winchester 1721    
50
   1721-1723   Thomas Green   translated to Ely 1723    
51
   1723-1727   John Leng        
52
   1727-1732   William Baker   Bishop of Bangor    
53
   1733-1738   Robert Butts   translated to Ely 1738    
54
   1738-1748   Sir Thomas Gooch   Bishop of Bristol
translated to Ely 1748		    
55
   1748-1749   Samuel Lisle   Bishop of St Asaph    
56
   1749-1761   Thomas Hayter   Preceptor to George III
tranlsated to London 1761		    
57
   1761-1783   Philip Young   Bishop of Bristol    
58
   1783-1790   Lewis Bagot   Bishop of Bristol
translated to St Asaph 1790		    
59
   1790-1792   George Horne        
60
   1792-1805   Charles Manners Sutton   translated to Canterbury 1805    
61
   1805-1837   Henry Bathurst        
62
   1837-1849   Edward Stanley        
63
   1849-1857   Samuel Hinds   resigned 1857    
64
   1857-1893   John Thomas Pelham        
65   1893-1910   John Sheepshanks        
66   1910-1942   Bertram Pollock        
67   1942-1959   Percy Mark Herbert        
68   1959-1971   William Lancelot Scott Fleming        
69   1971-1985   Maurice Arthur Ponsonby Wood        
70   1985-   Peter J Nott        
71
   1999-   Graham Richard James        

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