The Bishops and Archbishops of York
Bishops until 735, and Archbishops afterwards

1

 

627-633

 

Paulinus

   

633-644

  see vacant

2

 

644-669

 

Chad (Ceadda)

3

 

669-677

 

Wilfrid I (St. Wilfrid)

4

 

678-705

 

Bosa

5

 

705-     

 

John (St. John of Beverley)

6

 

718-732

 

Wilfrid II

7

 

735-766

 

Egbert

8

 

767-780

 

Ethelbert

9

 

780-796

 

Eanbald I

10

 

796-808

 

Eanbald II

11

 

808-837

 

Wulfsige

12

 

837-854

 

Wigmund

13

 

854-900

 

Wulfhere

14

 

900-     

 

Ethelbald

15

 

904-931

 

Hrotheweard (or Lodeward)

16

 

931-956

 

Wulfstan I

17

 

958-971

 

Oskytel

18

 

971

 

Edwald (or Ethelwold)

19

 

972-992

 

Oswald

20

 

992-1002

 

Ealdulf (Abbot of Peterborough)

21

 

1003-1023

 

Wulfstan II

22

 

1023-1051

 

Aelfric Puttoc

23

 

1051-1060

 

Cynesige

24

 

1061-1069

 

Ealdred

25

 

1070-1100

 

Thomas I

26

 

1101-1108

 

Gerard

27

 

1109-1114

 

Thomas II

28

 

1119-1140

 

Thurstan

29

 

1143-1147

 

William Fitzherbert

30

 

1147-1153

 

Henry Fitzherbert

   
1154
  William Fitzherbert (again)

31

 

1154-1181

 

Roger of Pont-L'Eveque

32

 

1181-1191

 

Geoffrey Plantagenet

33

 

1215-1255

 

Walter de Grey

34

 

1256-1258

 

Sewal de Bovill

35

 

1258-1265

 

Godfrey of Ludham (or Kineton)

36

 

1256-1279

 

Walter Giffard

37

 

1279-1285

 

William Wickwane

38

 

1286-1296

 

John le Romeyn (Romanus)

39

 

1298-1299

 

Henry of Newark

40

 

1300-1304

 

Thomas of Corbridge

41

 

1306-1316

 

William Greenfield

42

 

1317-1340

 

William of Melton

43

 

1342-1352

 

William le Zouche

44

 

1352-1373

 

John of Thoresby

45

 

1374-1388

 

Alexander Neville

46

 

1388-1396

 

Thomas Arundel

47

 

1396-1398

 

Robert Waldby

48

 

1398-1407

 

Richard le Scrope

49

 

1407-1423

 

Henry Bowet

50

 

1425-1452

 

John kempe

51

 

1452-1464

 

William Booth

52

 

1465-1476

 

George Neville

53

 

1476-1480

 

Lawrence Booth

54

 

1480-1500

 

Thomas Rotheram (or Scott)

55

 

1501-1507

 

Thomas Savage

56

 

1508-1514

 

Christopher Bainbridge

57

 

1514-1530

 

Thomas Wolsey

58

 

1531-1544

 

Edward Lee

59

 

1545-1554

 

Robert Holgate

60

 

1555-1560

 

Nicholas Heath

61

 

1561-1568

 

Thomas Young

62

 

1570-1576

 

Edmund Grindal

63

 

1577-1588

 

Edwin Sandys

64

 

1589-1594

 

John Piers

65

 

1595-1606

 

Matthew Hutton

66

 

1606-1628

 

Tobias Matthew

67

 

1628

 

George Monteigne

68

 

1628-1631

 

Samuel Harsnett

69

 

1632-1640

 

Richard Neile

70

 

1641-1650

 

John Williams

   

1650-1660

  see vacant

71

 

1660-1664

 

Accepted Frewen

72

 

1664-1683

 

Richard Sterne

73

 

1683-1686

 

John Dolben

74

 

1688-1691

 

Thomas Lamplugh

75

 

1691-1714

 

John Sharp

76

 

1714-1724

 

Sir William Dawes

77

 

1724-1743

 

Lancelot Blackburne

78

 

1743-1747

 

Thomas Herring

79

 

1747-1757

 

Matthew Hutton

80

 

1757-1761

 

John Gilbert

81

 

1761-1776

 

Robert Hay Drummond

82

 

1777-1807

 

William Markham

83

 

1807-1847

 

Edward Venables Vernon (afterwards Harcourt)

84

 

1847-1860

 

Thomas Musgrave

85

 

1860-1862

 

Charles Thomas Longley

86

 

1862-1890

 

William Thomson

87

 

1890-1891

 

William Connor Magee

88

 

1891-1908

 

William Dalrymple

89

 

1908-1928

 

Cosmo Gordon Lang

90

 

1929-1942

 

William Temple

91

 

1942-1955

 

Cyril Forster Garbett

92

 

1956-1961

 

Arthur Michael Ramsey

93

 

1961-1974

 

Frederic Donald Coggan

94

 

1975-1983

 

Stuart Yarworth Blanch

95

 

1983-1995

 

John Stapylton Habgood

96

  1995-2005  

David Hope

97   2005-   John Sentamu

Source: Archbishop of York's Web Site

this page last revised 2 February 2011
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