Bishop of Worcester
{{Short description|Diocesan bishop in the Church of England}}
{{for|the Catholic bishopric in Worcester, Massachusetts|Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2015}}
{{Infobox diocese
| bishopric = Worcester
| border = anglican
| coat = Diocese of Worcester arms.svg
| coat_size = 200
| coat_caption = Arms of the Bishop of Worcester: Argent, ten torteaux gules, four, three, two and oneDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p.1167
| incumbent = vacant
(acting: Martin Gorick, Bishop of Dudley)
| province = Canterbury
| residence = The Old Palace, Worcester
| established = 680
| cathedral = Worcester Cathedral
| first_incumbent = Bosel
| diocese = Worcester
}}
{{Portal|Christianity}}
The Bishop of Worcester is the head of the Church of England Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title can be traced back to the foundation of the diocese in the year 680.{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 223.{{Catholic|no-icon=1|prescript=|wstitle=Ancient Diocese of Worcester}} From then until the 16th century, the bishops were in full communion with the Catholic Church. During the Reformation, the church in England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Catholic Church, at first temporarily and later more permanently. Since the Reformation, the Bishop and Diocese of Worcester has been part of the Church of England and the Anglican Communion.
The diocese covers most of the county of Worcestershire, including the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley and parts of the City of Wolverhampton.[http://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/ Diocese of Worcester: Homepage]. Retrieved on 10 December 2008. The Episcopal see is in the city of Worcester where the bishop's throne is located at the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary.[http://www.worcestercathedral.co.uk/ Worcester Cathedral: Homepage]. Retrieved on 10 December 2008. The bishop's official residence is the Old Palace, Worcester.[http://www.anglicancommunion.org/tour/diocese.cfm?Idind=233&view=alpha Provincial Directory: Worcester]. Anglican Communion. Retrieved on 10 December 2008. The bishops had two residences outside the city: Hartlebury Castle near Kidderminster from the 13th century to 2007 and a palace at Alvechurch until it was pulled down in the 17th century.
From the elevations of Oswald of Worcester in 961 at Worcester and 972 at York, until 1023 the see was usually held jointly with the (then rather poorer) Archbishopric of York.
List of bishops
= Pre-Conquest =
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! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Worcester |
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! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|From ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|Until ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="30%"|Incumbent ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="45%"|Notes |
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|align="center"| 680 |align="center"| 691 | Bosel | Resigned the See |
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|align="center"| 691 |align="center"| 693 | Oftfor | |
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|align="center"| 693 |align="center"| 717 | Also recorded as Ecgwin, Egwin and Eegwine |
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|align="center"| 718 |align="center"| {{Circa}}744 | Wilfrith (I.) | Also recorded as Wilfrid |
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|align="center"| {{Circa}}743 |align="center"| {{Circa}}775 | Milred | Also recorded as Mildred and Hildred |
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|align="center"| 775 |align="center"| 777 | Waermund | Also recorded as Wærmund |
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|align="center"| 777 |align="center"| {{Circa}}780/81 | Tilhere | |
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|align="center"| 781 |align="center"| {{Circa}}799 | Also recorded as Hathored, AEthelred and Æthelred |
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|align="center"| {{Circa}}799 |align="center"| 822 | Also recorded as Deneberht |
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|align="center"| 822 |align="center"| {{Circa}}845/48 | Also recorded as Heahberht and Eadbert |
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|align="center"| {{Circa}}845/48 |align="center"| 872 | Ealhhun | Also recorded as Alwin |
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|align="center"| 873 |align="center"| 915 | Werferth | Also recorded as Waerfrith, Wærferth, Werfrith and Waerfrith |
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|align="center"| 915 |align="center"| 922 | Æthelhun | |
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|align="center"| 922 |align="center"| 929 | Wilfrith (II.) | |
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|align="center"| fl.929 |align="center"| 957 | Koenwald | Also recorded as Cenwald and Coenwald |
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|align="center"| 957 |align="center"| 959 | Dunstan | Previously Abbot of Glastonbury; translated to London; and later to Canterbury |
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|align="center"| 961 |align="center"| 992 | Oswald | Held both Worcester and York ( 971–992) |
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|align="center"| 992 |align="center"| 1002 | Ealdwulf | Previously Abbot of Peterborough; held both Worcester and York (995–1002) |
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|align="center"| 1002 |align="center"| 1016 | Wulfstan (I.) | Translated from London; also Archbishop of York (1002–1023) |
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|align="center"| 1016 |align="center"| 1033 | Leofsige | |
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|align="center"| 1033 |align="center"| 1038 | |
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|align="center"| {{Circa|1038/39}} |align="center"| 1040 | Lyfing (1st term) | Deprived from Worcester; also Bishop of Crediton and Cornwall (1027–1046) |
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|align="center"| 1040 |align="center"| 1041 | Also Archbishop of York, 1023–1041; deprived from both |
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|align="center"| 1041 |align="center"| 1046 | Lyfing (2nd term) | Restored to Worcester |
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|align="center"| 1046 |align="center"| 1061 | Ealdred |
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|align="center"| 1062 |align="center"| 1095 | Wulfstan (II.) | Canonized on 14 May 1203 by Pope Innocent III |
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| align=center colspan="4"| Source(s):{{cite web |url=http://www.crockford.org.uk/listing.asp?id=480 |title=Historical successions: Worcester |work=Crockford's Clerical Directory |access-date=14 July 2012}}{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 223–224, and 278. |
= Conquest to Reformation =
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! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Worcester |
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! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|From ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|Until ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="30%"|Incumbent ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="45%"|Notes |
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|align="center"| 1096 |align="center"| 1112 | Samson | |
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|align="center"| 1113 |align="center"| 1123 | Theulf | Nominated in 1113; consecrated in 1115 |
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|align="center"| 1125 |align="center"| 1150 | Simon | |
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|align="center"| 1151 |align="center"| 1157 | |
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|align="center"| 1158 |align="center"| 1160 | Alured | |
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|align="center"| 1163 |align="center"| 1179 | Roger | Also recorded as Roger of Gloucester |
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|align="center"| 1180 |align="center"| 1185 | Baldwin | Translated to Canterbury |
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|align="center"| 1185 |align="center"| 1190 | |
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|align="center"| 1191 |align="center"| 1193 | Previously Archdeacon of Nottingham |
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|align="center"| 1193 |align="center"| 1195 | Previously Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey |
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|align="center"| 1196 |align="center"| 1198 | |
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|align="center"| 1199 |align="center"| 1212 | Mauger | Elected in 1199, but quashed by Pope Innocent III; later postulated to the See; consecrated in 1200 |
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|align="center"| 1213 |align="center"| 1214 | Randulf of Evesham (bishop-elect) | Elected in December 1213, but quashed by the Papal legate, Niccolò de Romanis, in January 1214 |
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|align="center"| 1214 |align="center"| 1216 | Translated to York |
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|align="center"| 1216 |align="center"| 1218 | Also recorded as Sylvester of Evesham |
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|align="center"| 1218 |align="center"| 1236 | |
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|align="center"| 1237 |align="center"| 1266 | |
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|align="center"| 1266 |align="center"| 1268 | Formerly Archdeacon of Ely;translated to Winchester |
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|align="center"| 1268 |align="center"| 1302 | |
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| colspan=2 align=center|1302 | John St German (bishop-elect) | Elected in March 1302, but quashed in October 1302 |
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|align="center"| 1302 |align="center"| 1307 | |
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|align="center"| 1307 |align="center"| 1313 | Translated to Canterbury |
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|align="center"| 1313 |align="center"| 1317 | |
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|align="center"| 1317 |align="center"| 1327 | Previously Archbishop-elect of Canterbury in 1313 |
| valign=top bgcolor="white"
| colspan=2 align=center|1327 | Wulstan Bransford (bishop-elect) | Elected bishop but was quashed; later elected in 1339 |
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|align="center"| 1327 |align="center"| 1333 | Translated from Hereford; later to Winchester |
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|align="center"| 1333 |align="center"| 1337 | Translated to Ely |
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|align="center"| 1337 |align="center"| 1338 | Translated from Norwich |
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|align="center"| 1339 |align="center"| 1349 | |
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|align="center"| 1349 |align="center"| 1353 | Translated from St David's; later to York |
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|align="center"| 1352 |align="center"| 1361 | Translated from St David's |
| valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1362 |align="center"| 1363 | Translated to Bath and Wells; and later to Ely |
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|align="center"| 1363 |align="center"| 1368 | Translated from Rochester; later to Canterbury |
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|align="center"| 1368 |align="center"| 1373 | Translated from Chichester |
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|align="center"| 1373 |align="center"| 1375 | Walter Lyghe (bishop-elect) | Elected in 1373, but quashed in 1375 |
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|align="center"| 1375 |align="center"| 1395 | |
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|align="center"| 1394 |align="center"| 1401 | Robert Tideman of Winchcombe | Translated from Llandaff |
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|align="center"| 1401 |align="center"| 1407 | Previously Bishop-elect of Bath and Wells; later translated to London |
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|align="center"| 1407 |align="center"| 1419 | Translated from Llandaff |
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|align="center"| 1419 |align="center"| 1426 | Translated to Ely |
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|align="center"| 1425 |align="center"| 1433 | Translated from Chichester |
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|align="center"| 1433 |align="center"| 1435 | Thomas Brunce (bishop-elect) | Elected bishop, but never consecrated; later became Bishop of Rochester |
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|align="center"| 1434 |align="center"| 1443 | Translated to Ely; and later to Canterbury |
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|align="center"| 1443 |align="center"| 1476 | Nominated in 1443; consecrated in 1444; resigned the See in 1476; apparently used the style "Bishop of Worcester and Westbury"[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4729 Oxford DNB – Carpenter, John] (Accessed 20 February 2014)[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40286 A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2. College: The College of Westbury-on-Trym] (Accessed 20 February 2014) |
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|align="center"| 1476 |align="center"| 1486 |
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|align="center"| 1486 |align="center"| 1497 | Nominated in 1486; consecrated in 1487 |
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|align="center"| 1497 |align="center"| 1498 | |
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|align="center"| 1498 |align="center"| 1521 | |
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|align="center"| 1521 |align="center"| 1522 | 60px Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici | Appointed apostolic administrator of the See of Worcester in 1521 and resigned in 1522; also Archbishop of Florence and Narbonne and Bishop of Eger; he was elected as Pope Clement VII in 1523.[http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1513.htm#Medici Cardinal Giulio de' Medici] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621173723/http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1513.htm#Medici |date=21 June 2009 }}. The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Retrieved on 10 December 2008. |
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|align="center"| 1522 |align="center"| 1535 | Deprived of the See by Henry VIII when the king broke with Rome; later in 1535 Ghinucci was created a cardinal.[http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1535.htm#Ghinucci Cardinal Girolamo Ghinucci] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729115805/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1535.htm#Ghinucci |date=29 July 2012 }}. The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Retrieved on 10 December 2008. |
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| align=center colspan="4"| Source(s):{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 278–280.{{Harvnb|Greenway|1971}}, "[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33881 Bishops of Worcester]", Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 2, pp. 99–102.{{Harvnb|Jones|1962}}, "[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=32732 Bishops of Worcester]", Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541: Volume 4, pp. 55–58. |
= During the Reformation =
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! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Worcester |
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! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|From ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|Until ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="30%"|Incumbent ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="45%"|Notes |
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|align="center"| 1535 |align="center"| 1539 | Resigned the See |
| valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1539 |align="center"| 1543 | |
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|align="center"| 1543 |align="center"| 1551 | 60px Nicholas Heath (1st term) | Translated from Rochester; deprived of the See |
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|align="center"| 1552 |align="center"| 1554 | Translated from Gloucester, 20 May 1552 when Gloucester was reunited to Worcester; called "Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester" and "of Gloucester and Worcester"; deprived of the See.{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae|period=1541–1857|volume=7|pages=105–109}}{{Cite ODNB|id=13706|title=Hooper, John}}{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Hooper, John | volume= 13 | pages = 675–676 |last1= Pollard |first1= Albert Frederick }}{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hooper, John|volume=27}} |
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|align="center"| 1554 |align="center"| 1555 | 60px Nicholas Heath (2nd term) | Restored to the See; later translated to York |
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|align="center"| 1555 |align="center"| 1559 | Deprived of the See. |
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| align=center colspan="4"| Source(s):{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 280.{{Harvnb|Horn |1996}}, "[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35280 Bishops of Worcester]", Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 7, pp. 105–109. |
= Post-Reformation =
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! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Worcester |
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! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|From ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|Until ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="30%"|Incumbent ! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="45%"|Notes |
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|align="center"| 1559 |align="center"| 1570 |
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| colspan=2 align="center"| 1570 (designate) | Archdeacon of Colchester (1565–1570). Allegedly nominated by Queen Elizabeth I, but died before election. |
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|align="center"| 1571 |align="center"| 1576 | Translated from Lincoln |
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|align="center"| 1577 |align="center"| 1583 | Translated to Canterbury |
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|align="center"| 1584 |align="center"| 1591 | Translated from Norwich |
| valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1593 |align="center"| 1595 |
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|align="center"| 1596 |align="center"| 1597 | Translated to Winchester |
| valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1597 |align="center"| 1610 | Translated from Exeter |
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|align="center"| 1610 |align="center"| 1616 | Translated from Gloucester |
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|align="center"| 1617 |align="center"| 1641 | Translated from Bristol |
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|align="center"| 1641 |align="center"| 1646 | Deprived of the see when the English episcopacy was abolished by Parliament on 9 October 1646. |
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|align=center| 1646 |align=center| 1660 |colspan=2| The see was abolished during the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.[http://bcw-project.org/church-and-state/sects-and-factions/episcopalians Episcopacy]. British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638–60. Retrieved on 25 April 2021.{{cite journal |last=King |first=Peter |date=July 1968 |title=The Episcopate during the Civil Wars, 1642–1649 |journal=The English Historical Review |volume= 83 |issue= 328 |pages=523–537 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ehr/lxxxiii.cccxxviii.523|jstor=564164 }} |
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|align="center"| 1660 |align="center"| 1662 | Translated to Winchester |
| valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| colspan=2 align=center|1662 | Translated from Exeter |
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|align="center"| 1662 |align="center"| 1663 | Translated to Salisbury |
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|align="center"| 1663 |align="center"| 1670 | Translated from Bristol |
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|align="center"| 1671 |align="center"| 1675 | Translated from Oxford |
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|align="center"| 1675 |align="center"| 1683 | |
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|align="center"| 1683 |align="center"| 1689 | Translated from St David's |
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|align="center"| 1689 |align="center"| 1699 | |
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|align="center"| 1699 |align="center"| 1717 | Translated from Lichfield and Coventry |
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|align="center"| 1717 |align="center"| 1743 | Translated from Lichfield and Coventry |
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|align="center"| 1743 |align="center"| 1759 | Translated from St Asaph |
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|align="center"| 1759 |align="center"| 1774 | Translated from Gloucester |
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|align="center"| 1774 |align="center"| 1781 | Translated from Lichfield and Coventry; later to Winchester |
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|align="center"| 1781 |align="center"| 1808 | Translated from Lichfield and Coventry |
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|align="center"| 1808 |align="center"| 1831 | Translated from Hereford |
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|align="center"| 1831 |align="center"| 1841 | Translated from Chichester |
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|align="center"| 1841 |align="center"| 1860 | Translated from Sodor and Man |
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|align="center"| 1861 |align="center"| 1890 | |
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|align="center"| 1890 |align="center"| 1901 | Resigned |
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|align="center"| 1902 |align="center"| 1905 | 60px Charles Gore{{London Gazette|issue=27389|date=20 December 1901|page=8979}} | Translated to Birmingham; and later to Oxford |
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|align="center"| 1905 |align="center"| 1918 |
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|align="center"| 1919 |align="center"| 1931 | |
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|align="center"| 1931 |align="center"| 1941 | Translated from Bradford |
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|align="center"| 1941 |align="center"| 1955 | |
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|align="center"| 1956 |align="center"| 1971 | |
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|align="center"| 1971 |align="center"| 1981 | |
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|align="center"| 1982 |align="center"| 1996 | 60px Philip Goodrich [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/01/29/db02.xml The Rt Revd Philip Goodrich]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}. The Daily Telegraph, first published: 22 November 2001. | Previously Bishop of Tonbridge (1973–1982) |
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|align="center"| 1997 |align="center"| 2007 | Previously Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames (1984–1992). Also Bishop to HM Prisons (2001–2007) |
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|colspan="2" align="center"| 2007 (acting) | Bishop of Dudley. Episcopal commissary (acting diocesan bishop) during interregnum.{{Cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/7086461.stm | title=Trust chaplaincy service secured| date=2007-11-09}} |
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|align="center"| 2007 |align="center"| 2024 |
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|align="center"| 2024 |align="center"| acting | 60px Martin Gorick, Bishop of Dudley | Acting diocesan bishop during vacancy in See, since 9 October 2024.{{cite web |date=9 March 2023 |title=Bishop Martin becomes Acting Bishop of Worcester |url=https://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/news/bishop-martin-becomes-acting-bishop-of-worcester.php |access-date=13 October 2024 |website=The Diocese of Worcester |archive-url= |archive-date= }} |
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| align=center colspan="4"| Source(s):{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 280–281. |
Assistant bishops
Among those who have served as assistant bishops of the diocese are:
- 1936{{snd}}1944 (d.): Ridley Duppuy, Canon Residentiary of Worcester Cathedral, Archdeacon of Worcester (from 1938), Vice-Dean of Worcester (from 1940) and former Bishop of Victoria{{Who's Who |id=U224932 |title=Duppuy, Charles Ridley}}
- 1946{{snd}}January 1953 (ret.): Bertram Lasbrey, Rector of St Andrew's &c. Worcester and former Bishop on the Niger{{Who's Who |id=U156569 |title=Lasbrey, Bertram}}
- 1953{{snd}}1965 (ret.): Cyril Stuart, Rector of St Andrew's &c. Worcester (until 1965), Canon of Worcester thereafter, and former Bishop of Uganda{{Who's Who |id=U169581 |title=Stuart, Cyril Edgar}}
- 1968{{snd}}1991 (ret.): Nicholas Allenby, former Bishop of Kuching{{Who's Who |id=U170811 |title=Allenby, David Howard Nicholas}}
- 1989{{snd}}2008 (d.): Kenneth Woollcombe, assistant priest in Upton Snodsbury (1989–?), former Bishop of Oxford and Assistant Bishop of London for Westminster{{Church Times | title = Woollcombes to leave London | archive = 1989_04_21_003 | issue = 6584 | date = 21 April 1989 | page = 3 | accessed = 15 February 2021 }}
References
= Footnotes =
{{Reflist}}
= Bibliography =
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- {{cite book |last=Greenway |first=D. E. |year=1971 |title=Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces) |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=123 |series=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300 |volume=2 |publisher=British History Online }}
- {{cite book |last1=Horn |first1=J. M. |year=1996 |title=Ely, Norwich, Westminster and Worcester Dioceses |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=148 |series=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857 |volume=7 |publisher=British History Online }}
- {{cite book |last=Jones |first=B. |year=1962 |title=Monastic Cathedrals (Southern Province) |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=133 |series=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541 |volume=4 |publisher=British History Online }}
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External links
- [http://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/ Diocese of Worcester]
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Category:Christianity in Worcester, England
Category:Christianity in Worcestershire