bishop of bangor

The Bishop of Bangor is the Ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor. The diocese covers the County of Anglesey, most of Gwynedd and a small part of Powys. The see is in the town of Bangor where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Deniol. The diocese in the Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd was founded around 546 by Saint Deniol. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Phillip Anthony Crockett, the 80th Bishop of Bangor, who was enthroned at Bangor Cathedral on 18 September 2004

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Bangor, Wales

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small>c546 to 572	Deniol (Daniel)	Saint Deniol; founded monastery at Bangor 525; according to Haydn's bishop from 516
small>572 to c768	unknown
small>c768 to 809	Elfodd (Elbodug)
small>809 to c904	unknown
small>c904 to ???	Morlais
small>??? to 1055	unknown
small>c1050 to ????	Dyfan
small>c1081 to ????	Revedun
small>1107 to 1109	Hervey (Hervaeus; Harve)	Translated to Ely
small>1109 to 1120	Urban	Bishop of Llandaff
small>1120 to 1139	David (David the Scot)
small>1139 to 1162	Mauritius (Maurice; Meuricus)
small>1162 to 1177	Gwion (William)	Prior of St Austin's, Bristol
small>1177 to c1191	Guy (Guido; Guianus)
small>c1191 to 1195	vacant	For 4 years
small>1195 to 1197	Albanus (Alan)	Prior of St John of Jerusalem
small>1197 to 1215	Robert de Shrewsbury
small>1215 to 1236	Cadwgan (Caducan; Martin)
small>1236 to 1240	Hywel (Howell)
small>1240 to 1267	Richard
small>1267 to 1303 (or 1307)	Anianus (Anian; Einon)	Archdeacon of Anglesey
small>1303 to 1306	Cadwgan (Caducan)
small>1307 to 1300	Gruffyd ap Iorwerth (Griffin ap Yerward; Griffith)	According to Haydn's: 1306 to 1320
small>1320 to 1327	Lewis	According to Heylyn
small>1309 to 1328	Anian Seys (Einon Sais)	According to Le Neve
small>1327 to 1357	Matthew de Englefeld
small>1357 to 1366	Thomas de Ringstede
small>1366 to 1370	Gervase de Castro
small>1370 to 1371	Hywel ab Goronwy (Howell ab Gronow)
small>1371 to 1375	John Gilbert
small>1375 to 1400	John Swaffham styled *John Clovensis* by Heylyn	Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland
small>1400 to 1405	Richard Young	Translated to Rochester
small>1405 to 1408	Llewellyn Bifort (Llewellyn Byford; Lewis )
small>1408 to 1418	Benedict Nichols ( Benedict Nicholls)
small>1418 to 1424	William Barrow (William Barrowe)	Canon of Lincoln; translated to Carlisle
small>1424 to 1436	Nicholaus Clederow (John Clederow; John Cliderow)	Canon of Chichester
small>1436 to 1448	Thomas Cheryton (Thomas Cheriton)
small>1448 to 1454	John Stanbery (John Stanbury)
small>1454 to 1464	James Blakedon	Bishop of Achad-Fobhair
small>1464 to 1496	Thomas Ednam alias Richard Evynden (Richard Edenham)
small>1496 to 1500	Henry Deane	Prior of Llanthony and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
small>1500 to 1504	Thomas Pigot
small>1504 to 1509	John Penny	Translated to Carlisle
small>1509 to 1534	Thomas Skeffington	Abbot of Waverley
small>1534 to 1539	John Salcott alias Capon
small>1539 to 1541	John Birde	Last Provincial of the Carmelites; translated to Chester
small>1541 to March 1552	Arthur Bulkeley	Died in office
small>March 1552 to 1555	vacant	for 3 years
small>1555 to 1559	William Glynn	Master of Queen's College, Cambridge
small>1559 to 1566	Rowland Merrick	Chancellor and Residentiary of St David's
small>1566 to 1585	Nicholas Robinson
small>1585 to 1595	Hugh Bellot	Translated to Chester
small>1595 to 1598	Richard Vaughan	Archdeacon of Middlesex; translated to Chester
small>1598 to 1616	Henry Rowlands
small>1616 to 1631	Lewis Bayley
small>1631 to 1633	David Dolben
small>1633 to 1637	Edmund Griffith	Dean of Bangor
small>1637 to 1666	William Roberts	Sub-dean of Wells
small>1666 to 1673	Robert Morgan	Archdeacon of Merioneth
small>1673 to 1689	Humphrey Lloyd	Dean of St Asaph
small>1689 to 1701	Humphrey Humphreys	Dean of Bangor; translated to Hereford
small>1701 to 1715	John Evans	Translated to Meath, Ireland
small>1715 to 1721	Benjamin Hoadley	Rector of St Peter's-le-Poor, London; translated to Hereford
small>1721 to 1723	Richard Reynolds	Dean of Peterborough; translated to Lincoln
small>1723 to 1728	William Baker	Warden of Wadham College, Oxford; translated to Norwich
small>1728 to 1734	Thomas Sherlock	Dean of Chichester; translated to Salisbury
small>1734 to 1737	Charles Cecil	Translated from Bristol
small>1737 to 1743	Thomas Herring	Dean of Rochester; translated to York
small>1743 to 1748	Matthew Hutton	Translated to York
small>1748 to 1756	Zacariah Pearce (Zachary Pearce )	Dean of Winchester; translated to Rochester
small>1756 to 1769	John Egerton	Dean of Hereford; translated to Lichfield and Coventry
small>1769 to 1774	John Ewer	Translated from Llandaff
small>1774 to 1783	John Moore	Dean of Canterbury; translated to Canterbury
small>1783 to 1800	John Warren	Translated from St David's
small>5 April 1800 to 1806	William Cleaver	Translated from Chester; translated to St Asaph
small>13 December 1806 to 1809	John Randolph	Translated from Oxford; translated to London
small>12 August 1809 to 9 July 1830	Henry William Majendie	Translated from Chester; died in office
small>10 October 1830 to 19 April 1859	Christopher Bethell	Translated from Exeter; died in office
small>12 May 1859 to 1890	James Colquhoun Campbell	Archdeacon of Llandaff
small>1890 to 1898	Daniel Lewis Lloyd
small>1899 to 1924	Watkin Herbert Williams
small>1925 to 1928	Daniel Davies
small>1928 to 1944	'Charles Alfred Howel Green	Also Archbishop of Wales 1934-1944
small>1944 to 1948	David Edwards Davies
small>1949 to 1956	John Charles Jones
small>1957 to 1982	Gwilym Owen Williams	Also Archbishop of Wales 1971-1982
small>1982 to 1992	John Cledan Mears
small>1992 to 1999	Barry Cennydd Morgan
small>2000 to 2004	Francis James Saunders Davies	Elected 1999
small>2004 to present	Phillip Anthony Crockett	Archdeacon of Carmarthen and Vicar of Cynwyl Elfed, Cwm Duad and Newchurch; enthroned 18 September 2004

Sources

''Haydn's Book of Dignities (1894) Joseph Haydn/Horace Ockerby, reprinted 1969''
''Whitaker's Almanack 1883 to 2004, Joseph Whitaker and Sons Ltd/A&C Black, London''
http://www.esgobaethbangordiocese.org

Bishop Of Bangor

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Bangor, Wales

Sources

See also