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Bishop of St Asaph
The Bishop of Saint Asaph is the Ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Saint Asaph.
The diocese covers the counties of Denbighshire, Flintshire and the eastern parts of Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire. The see is in the town of St Asaph where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Asaph which was founded as a monastery around 560, becoming elevated to cathedral status in 583.
The office was created in 583 at the founding of the diocese. The current bishop is the Right Reverend John Stewart Davies , the 75th Bishop of Saint Asaph, who was consecrated in October 1999 and who signs John St Asaph.
List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Saint Asaph, Wales
| Tenure | Incumbent | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 583 to ??? | Kentigern (Mungo) | Bishop of Glasgow; Saint Kentigern / Saint Mungo |
| ??? to ??? | … | |
| 1143 to 1152 | Gilbertus (Galfridus ) | |
| 1152 to 1154 | Geoffrey of Monmouth | |
| 1154 to 1155 | Richard | Died in office |
| 1155 to 1175 | Godefridus (Godfrey ) | |
| 1175 to 1183 | Adam | Canon of Paris |
| 1183 to 1186 | Johannes (John ) | |
| 1186 to 1225 | Reinerus (Reyner ) | |
| 1225 to 1235 | Abraham | |
| 1235 to 1240 | Hugo (Hugh ) | |
| 1240 to c.1247 | Howel ap Ednevet | |
| c.1247 to 1249 | vacant | |
| 1249 to 1267 | Enion (Anian ) | |
| 1267 to 1268 | John | |
| 1268 to 1293 | Enion (Anian ) | |
| 1293 to 1314 | Leoline de Bromfeld | Canon of St Asaph |
| 1314 to 1352 | David | |
| 1352 to 1357 | John Trevaur | |
| 1357 to 1376 | Leoline ap Madoc | Dean of St Asaph |
| 1376 to 1382 | William de Sprinlington | Dean of St Asaph |
| 1382 to 1390 | Lawrence Child | Penitentiary to the pope |
| 1390 to 1395 | Alexander Bache | |
| 1395 to 1402 | John Trevaur | Prebendary of Hereford; deprived |
| 1402 to 1411 | David | |
| 1411 to 1433 | Robert de Lancaster | |
| 1433 to 1444 | John Lowe | Translated to Rochester |
| 1444 to 1450 | Reginald Peacock | Translated to Chichester |
| 1450 to 1461 | Thomas | |
| 1461 to 1472 | Thomas | |
| 1472 to 1495 | Richard Redman | Translated to Exeter |
| 1495 to 1499 | Michael Dyacon | |
| 1499 to 1503 | David | |
| 1503 to 1513 | David | Abbot of Conway |
| 1513 to 1518 | Edmund Birkhead | |
| 1518 to 1535 | Henry Standish | |
| 1535 to 1536 | William Barlow | Translated to St David's |
| 1536 to 1554 | Robert Warton (Robert Parfew ; Robert Parfoy ) | Abbot of Bermondsey; translated to Hereford |
| 1554 to 1559 | Thomas Goldwell | Went into voluntary exile |
| 1559 to 1561 | Richard Davies | Translated St David's |
| 1561 to 1573 | Thomas Davies | |
| 1573 to 1601 | William Morgan | Translated from Llandaff |
| 1601 to 1603 | William Morgan | Translated from Llandaff |
| 1603 to 1622 | Richard Parry | Dean of Bangor |
| 1622 to 1629 | John Hamner | Prebendary of Worcester |
| 1629 to 1651 | John Owen | Archdeacon of St Asaph; died in office |
| 1651 to 1660 | vacant | For 9 years |
| 1660 to 1667 | George Griffith | Archdeacon of St Asaph |
| 1667 to 1669 | Henry Glenham | Dean of Bristol |
| 1669 to 1680 | Isaac Barrow | Translated from Sodor & Man |
| 1680 to 1692 | William Lloyd | Dean of Bangor; translated from Lichfield & Coventry |
| 1692 to 1703 | Edward Jones | Translated from Cloynes, Ireland |
| 1703 to 1704 | George Hooper | Dean of Canterbury; translated to Bath & Wells |
| 1704 to 1708 | William Beveridge | Archdeacon of Colchester |
| 1708 to 1714 | William Fleetwood | Canon of Windsor; translated to Ely |
| 1714 to 1727 | John Wynne | Principal of Jesus College, Oxford; translated to Bath & Wells |
| 1727 to 1731 | Francis Hare | Dean of Worcester and dean of St Paul's, London; translated to Chichester |
| 1731 to 1736 | Thomas Tanner | Canon of Christ Church, Oxford |
| 1736 to 1743 | Isaac Maddox | Dean of Wells; translated to Worcester |
| 1743 to 1743 | John Thomas | Dean of Peterborough; elected but translated to Lincoln before consecration |
| 1743 to 1748 | Samuel Lisle | Archdeacon of Canterbury; translated to Norwich |
| 1748 to 1761 | The Honourable Robert Drummond | Prebendary of Westminster; translated to Salisbury |
| 1761 to 1769 | Richard Newcombe | Translated from Llandaff |
| 1769 to 1789 | John Shipley | Translated from Llandaff |
| 1789 to 1790 | Samuel Halifax | Translated from Gloucester |
| 1790 to 1802 | Lewis Bagot | Translated from Norwich |
| 29 July 1802 to 4 October 1806 | Samuel Horsley | Translated from Rochester |
| 15 October 1806 to 15 May 1815 | William Cleaver | Translated from Bangor |
| 23 May 1815 to 21 January 1830 | John Luxmore | Translated from Hereford |
| 23 February 1830 to 13 September 1846 | William Carey | Translated from Exeter |
| 10 October 1846 to January 1870 | Thomas Vowler Short | Translated from Sodor & Man; resigned |
| 25 May 1870 to 1889 | Joshua Hughes | Vicar of Llandovery |
| 1889 to 19?? | Alfred G. Edwards | |
| 19?? to 1950 | … | |
| 1950 to 1971 | David Daniel Bartlett , DD | |
| 1971 to 1982 | Harold John Charles , MA | |
| 1982 to 1999 | Alwyn R Jones | Also Archbishop of Wales |
| 1999 to present | John Stewart Davies |
Sources
- Haydn's Book of Dignities (1894) Joseph Haydn/Horace Ockerby, reprinted 1969
- Whitaker's Almanack 1883 to 2004 Joseph Whitaker & Sons Ltd/A&C Black, London
- http://tejones.net/religion/Bishops
See also
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