bishop of chester

The Bishop of Chester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chester in the Province of York. The diocese covers most of the traditional county of Cheshire, including the Wirral and has its see in the City of Chester where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was formerly the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Werburgh, being elevated to cathedral status in 1541. Cheshire has held a bishopric since 1072 when the seat was at the collegiate church of Saint John the Baptist until 1102. The present diocese was formed in 1541 under King Henry VIII. The current Bishop of Chester is the Right Reverend Peter Robert Forster, PhD, the 40th Bishop of Chester, who was enthroned on 11 January 1997, and who signs Peter Cestr.

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Chester, England

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small>1542 to 1554	John Bird
small>1554 to 1555	George Cotes
small>1556 to 1559	Cuthbert Scott
small>1561 to 1577	William Downham
small>1579 to 1595	William Chaderton
small>1595 to 1596	Hugh Bellott
small>1597 to 1604	Richard Vaughan
small>1604 to 1615	George Lloyd
small>1616 to 1619	Thomas Morton
small>1619 to 1652	John Bridgeman
small>1660 to 1661	Brian Walton
small>1662 to 1662	Henry Ferne
small>1662 to 1668	George Hall
small>1668 to 1672	John Wilkins
small>1673 to 1686	John Pearson
small>1686 to 1689	Thomas Cartwright
small>1689 to 1707	Nicholas Stratford
small>1708 to 1714	Sir William Dawes, the 3rd Baronet Dawes
small>1714 to 1725	Francis Gastrell
small>1726 to 1752	Samuel Peploe
small>1752 to 1771	Edmund Keene
small>1771 to 1776	William Markham
small>1776 to 1787	Beilby Porteus
small>1788 to 1800	William Cleaver
small>1800 to 1809	Henry Majendie
small>1810 to 1812	Bowyer Sparke
small>1812 to 1834	George Law
small>1824 to 1828	Charles Blomfield
small>1828 to 1848	John Sumner
small>1845 to 1865	John Graham
small>1865 to 1884	William Jacobson
small>1884 to 1889	William Stubbs
small>1889 to 1919	Francis Jayne
small>1919 to 1932	Henry Paget
small>1932 to 1939	Geoffrey Fisher
small>1939 to 1955	Douglas Crick
small>1955 to 1973	Gerald Ellison
small>1974 to 1981	Hubert Whitsey
small>1982 to 1996	Michael Baughen	Retired
small>1996 to present	Peter Robert Forster, PhD	Enthroned 21 January 1997

Bishop Of Chester

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Chester, England

See also