Bishops of Oxford
1 | 1542 | Robert King | Suffragan of Lincoln, first Bishop of Oxford, the seat of the Bishopric being at Osney | |||
2 | 1559 | Thomas Goldwell | Bishop of St Asaph 1558 Fled to Milan and Rome | |||
Nine years vacancy | ||||||
3 | 1567 | Hugh Coren or Curwen | Archbishop of Dublin | |||
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Twenty-one years vacancy | |||||
4 | 1589
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John Underhill | Rector of Lincoln College | |||
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Eleven years vacancy | |||||
5 | 1604
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John Bridges | Dean of Salisbury | |||
6 | 1619
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John Howson | Student of Christ Church | |||
7 | 1628
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Richard Corbet | Dean of Christ Church | |||
8 | 1632
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John Bancroft | Master of University College | |||
9 | 1641
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Robert Skinner | Bishop of Bristol (deprived during the Commonwealth but restored 1660) | |||
10 | 1663
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William Paul | Dean of Lichfield | |||
11 | 1665
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Walter Blandford | Warden of Wadham College | |||
12 | 1671 | Nathanial, Lord Crewe | Rector of Lincoln and Dean of Chichester
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13 | 1674
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Henry Compton | Canon of Christ Church | |||
14 | 1676
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John Fell | Dean of Christ Church | |||
15 | 1686 | Samuel Parker | Archdeacon of Canterbury | |||
1688 | Timothy Hall | (denied installation by the Chapter of Christ Church) | ||||
16 | 1690 | John Hough | President of Magdalen College | |||
17 | 1699 | William Talbot | Dean of Worcester | |||
18 | 1715
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John Potter | Regius Professor of Divinity | |||
19 | 1737
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Thomas Secker | Bishop of Bristol | |||
20 | 1758 | John Hume | Bishop of Bristol | |||
21 | 1766 | Robert Louth | Bishop of St David's | |||
22 | 1777 | John Butler | Prebendary of Winchester | |||
23 | 1788 | Edward Smallwell | Bishop of St David's | |||
24 | 1799 | John Randolph | Regius Professor of Divinity | |||
25 | 1807 | Charles Moss | ||||
26 | 1832 | William Jackson | Regius Professor of Greek | |||
27 | 1816 | Edward Legge | Dean of Windsor | |||
28 | 1827 | Charles Lloyd | Regius Professor of Divinity
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29 | 1829 | Richard Bagot | Dean of Canterbury | |||
30 | 1845 | Samuel Wilberforce | Dean of Westminster | |||
31 | 1870 | John Fielder Mackarness | Prebendary of Exeter | |||
32 | 1889 | William Stubbs | Bishop of Chester | |||
33 | 1901 | Francis Paget | Dean of Christ Church | |||
34 | 1911 | Charles Gore | Bishop of Birmingham (resigned See of Oxford 1919) | |||
35 | 1919 | Hubert Murray Burge | Bishop of Southwark | |||
36 | 1925 | Thomas Banks Strong | Bishop of Ripon (resigned See of Oxford 1937) | |||
37 | 1937 | Kenneth Escott Kirk | Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology | |||
38 | 1955 | Harry James Carpenter | Warden of Keble (resigned See of Oxford 1970) | |||
39 | 1971 | Kenneth John Woollcombe | Principal of Edinburgh Theological College (resigned See of Oxford 1978) | |||
40 | 1978 | Patrick Campbell Rodger | Bishop of Manchester (resigned See of Oxford 1986)
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41 | 1987 | Richard Douglas Harries | Dean of King's College, London
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42 | 2007 | John Pritchard | Bishop of Jarrow | |||
Source: Oxford Diocesan Web Site
this page last revised 2 February 2011
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