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BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER

The following is the list of (Catholic) Bishops of Winchester with the dates of accession.
 (After 909 the chronology is certain)   d.b = Died before, d. = Died

BISHOP

DATES

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 St Birninus

634

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 St Agilbert

c 650

 Wini  (Wine)

662 - 63

 Hlothere (Leutherius, Leuthere)

670 - 76

 St. Haeddi  (Haedda)

676 - 705

Diocese of Wessex split - Winchester & Sherborne

705

 Daniel

705 - 44

 Hunfrith

744 - 54

 Cyneheard

d.b  778

 Aethelheard

d.b  778

 Ecgbeald  (Ecbald)

d. 781 - 85

 Dudd

d. 781 - 85

 Cynebeorht  (Cyneberht)

d. 801 - 03

 Eahlmund  (Ealhmund)

d. 805 - 14

 Wigthegn (Wigferth or Wigmund)

d.   833

 Herefrith

d.   833

 Eadmund

(uncertain)

 Eadhun

d.   838

 Helmstan

838 (?)

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 St. Swithin  (Swithhun)

852 - 62

 Ealhfrith (Ealhferth)

d. 871 - 77

 Tunbeorht (Tunberht)

d. 877 - 79

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 Denewulf

879 - 909

Diocese of Ramsbury & Sonning split from Winch

c 909

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 St. Frithustan (Frithestan)

909

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 St. Beornstan  (Byrnstan, Birstan)

931

 Aelfheah I, (St Alphege the Bald)

934

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 Aelfsige I

951

 Beorhthelm  (Byrhthelm)

960

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 St. Aethelweald I  (Aethelwold)

963

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 St. Aelfheah II  (St Alphege)

984

 Ceonwulf  (Cenwulf)

1006

 Aethelweald II  (Aethelwold)

1006

 Aelfsige II

1012 or 14

 Aelfwine

1032

 BISHOP

DATES

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Stigand

1047

 Aelfsige III

(doubtful)

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 Walkelin

1070

 William de Giffard

1100

Further information about Henry de Blois

 Henry de Blois

1129

 (Vacancy)

1171

 Richard Toclive

1174

 Godfrey de Lucy

1189

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 Peter de la Roche

1204

 (Vacancy)

1238

 William de Raleigh

1244

 Aymer de Valence

1250

 (Vacancy)

1261

 John of Exeter

1265

 Nicholas of Ely

1268

 (Vacancy)

1280

 John de Pontissara

1282

 Henry Woodlock

1305

 John Sandale

1316

 Reginald Asser

1320

 John Stratford

1323

 Adam Orleton

1333

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 William Edingdon

1346

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 William of Wykeham

1367

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 Henry of Beaufort

1405

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 William of Wayneflete

1447

 Peter Courtenay

1486

 Thomas Langton

1493

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 Richard Fox

1500

Further information about Thomas Wolsey

 Thomas Wolsey

1529

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 Stephen Gardiner

1531

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 John Ponet

1551

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 Stephen Gardiner

1553

 John White

1556 - 60

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The following is a list of the Protestant Bishops, with their dates of accession.

 Robert Horne

1560

 John Watson

1580

 Thomas Cooper

1584

 William Wickham

1594

 William Day

1595

 Thomas Bilson

1597

 James Montague

1616

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 Lancelot Andrewes

1618

 Richard Neile

1627

 Walter Curle

1632

 Brian Duppa

1660

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 George Morley

1662

 Peter Mews

1684

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 Sir Jonathan Trelawney

1707

 Charles Trimnell

1721

 Richard Willis

1723

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 Benjamin Hoadley

1734

 John Thomas

1761

 Brownlow North

1781

 George Pretyman-Tomline

1820

 Charles Richard Sumner

1827

 Samuel Wilberforce

1869

 Edward Harold Browne

1873

 Antony Wilson Thorold

1891

 Randall Thomas Davidson

1895

 Herbert Edward Ryle

1903

 Edward Stuart Talbot

1911

 Frank Theodore Woos

1923

 Cyril Foster Garbett

1932

 Mervyn George Haigh

1942

 Alwyn Terrell Petre Williams

1952

 Sherard Falkner Allison

1961

 John Vernon Taylor

1974

 Colin Clement Walter James

1985

 Michael Scott-Joynt

1996