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Bishop of Norwich
The Bishop of Norwich is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Norwich in the Province of Canterbury.
The diocese covers most of the County of Norfolk and part of Suffolk. The see is in the City of Norwich where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity which was built as a cathedral in 1096.
East Anglia has held a bishopric since 630 when the first cathedral was founded at Dunwich on a site which is now submerged by the sea off the coast of Suffolk. The seat was moved in 673 to Elmham (now North Elmham ) and from thence to Thetford in 1070 before finally being located in Norwich in 1094 under King William II ahead of the completion of the new cathedral building. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Graham Richard James , the 71st Bishop of Norwich, who signs Graham Norvic.
In traditional dining circles, when the port is being circulated after dinner it is traditionally considered poor etiquette to ask for the bottle to be passed round should someone be seen to be hogging the decanter. Instead certain groups hold that one should ask if the offending gentleman "knows the Bishop of Norwich" to prompt him to pass it round.
List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Norwich, England and its precursor offices
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
| Tenure | Incumbent | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| See at Thetford | ||
| 1070 to 1086 | Herfast, Bishop of Thetford | |
| 1086 to 1091 | William de Beaufeu , Bishop of Thetford | |
| 1091 to 1094 | Herbert Losinga , Bishop of Thetford | Moved see to Norwich 1094 |
| See at Norwich | ||
| 1094 to 1119 | Herbert Losinga , Bishop of Norwich | |
| 1121 to 1145 | Everard | Deposed |
| 1146 to 1174 | William de Turbe | |
| 1175 to 1200 | John of Oxford | |
| 1200 to 1214 | John de Gray | Died in office |
| 1214 to 1222 | vacant | |
| 1222 to 16 September 1226 | Pandulf Masca | |
| 1226 to 1236 | Thomas Blunville | |
| 1236 to 1236 | Ralph de Norwich | |
| 1236 to 1239 | vacant | |
| 1239 to 1244 | William de Raley | Translated to Winchester |
| 1245 to 1257 | Walter Suffield | Died in office |
| 1258 to 1266 | Simon de Wanton | |
| 1266 to 1278 | Roger Skirnyng | |
| 1278 to 1288 | William Middleton | |
| 1289 to 1299 | Ralph Walpole | translated to Ely |
| 1299 to 1325 | John Salmon | Died in office |
| 1325 to 1336 | William Ayermin | |
| 1337 to 1343 | Antony Bek | |
| 1344 to 1355 | William Bateman | |
| 1356 to 1369 | Thomas Percy | |
| 1370 to 1406 | Henry Spenser | Died in office |
| 1407 to 1413 | Alexander Tottington | |
| 1413 to 1415 | Richard Courtenay | |
| 1416 to 1425 | John Wakering | |
| 1426 to 1436 | William Alnwick | Translated to Lincoln |
| 1436 to 1445 | Thomas Brown | Bishop of Rochester |
| 1445 to 1472 | Walter Hart (Walter Le Hart ) | |
| 1472 to 1498 | James Goldwell | |
| 1499 to 1500 | Thomas Jane | |
| 1501 to 1536 | Richard Nykke (Richard Nix ) | |
| 1536 to 1550 | William Rugg (William Repps ) | Protestant; resigned |
| 1550 to 1554 | Thomas Thirlby | Bishop of Westminster; Protestant - later reconciled; translated to Ely |
| 1554 to 1558 | John Hopton | Last Roman Catholic Bishop of Norwich |
| 1560 to 1575 | John Parkhurst | |
| 1575 to 1584 | Edmund Freak | Bishop of Rochester; translated to Worcester |
| 1585 to 1594 | Edmund Scambler | Bishop of Peterborough |
| 1594 to 1602 | William Redman | |
| 1602 to 1617 | John Jegon | |
| 1618 to 1619 | John Overall | Bishop of Lichfield |
| 1619 to 1628 | Samuel Harsnet | Translated to York |
| 1628 to 1631 | Francis White | Translated to Ely |
| 1632 to 1635 | Richard Corbet | Bishop of Norwich |
| 1635 to 1638 | Matthew Wren | Translated to Ely |
| 1638 to 1641 | Richard Montague | Bishop of Chichester |
| 1641 to 1656 | Joseph Hall | Bishop of Exeter; died in office |
| 1661 to 1676 | Edward Reynolds | |
| 1676 to 1685 | Antony Sparrow | Bishop of Exeter |
| 1685 to 1691 | William Lloyd | Bishop of Llandaff; Bishop of Peterborough; deposed |
| 1691 to 1707 | John Moore | Translated to Ely |
| 1708 to 1721 | Charles Trimnell | Translated to Winchester |
| 1721 to 1723 | Thomas Green | Translated to Ely |
| 1723 to 1727 | John Leng | |
| 1727 to 1732 | William Baker | Bishop of Bangor |
| 1733 to 1738 | Robert Butts | Translated to Ely |
| 1738 to 1748 | Sir Thomas Gooch | Bishop of Bristol; translated to Ely |
| 1748 to 1749 | Samuel Lisle | Bishop of St Asaph |
| 1749 to 1761 | Thomas Hayter | Tranlsated to London |
| 1761 to 1783 | Philip Young | Bishop of Bristol |
| 1783 to 1790 | Lewis Bagot | Bishop of Bristol; translated to St Asaph |
| 1790 to 1792 | George Horne | |
| 1792 to 1805 | Charles Manners-Sutton | translated to Canterbury |
| 1805 to 1837 | Henry Bathurst | |
| 1837 to 1849 | Edward Stanley | |
| 1849 to 1857 | Samuel Hinds | Resigned |
| 1857 to 1893 | John Thomas Pelham | |
| 1893 to 1910 | John Sheepshanks | |
| 1910 to 1942 | Bertram Pollock | |
| 1942 to 1959 | Percy Mark Herbert | |
| 1959 to 1971 | William Lancelot Scott Fleming | |
| 1971 to 1985 | Maurice Arthur Ponsonby Wood | |
| 1985 to 1999 | Peter John Nott | |
| 1999 to present | Graham Richard James | |
See also
Categories: Bishops | Anglicanism | Norfolk | Norwich
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