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)

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small>1070 to 1086	Herfast, Bishop of Thetford
small>1086 to 1091	William de Beaufeu, Bishop of Thetford
small>1091 to 1094	Herbert Losinga, Bishop of Thetford	Moved see to Norwich 1094
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small>1094 to 1119	Herbert Losinga, Bishop of Norwich
small>1121 to 1145	Everard	Deposed
small>1146 to 1174	William de Turbe
small>1175 to 1200	John of Oxford
small>1200 to 1214	John de Gray	Died in office
small>1214 to 1222	vacant
small>1222 to 16 September 1226	Pandulf Masca
small>1226 to 1236	Thomas Blunville
small>1236 to 1236	Ralph de Norwich
small>1236 to 1239	vacant
small>1239 to 1244	William de Raley	Translated to Winchester
small>1245 to 1257	Walter Suffield	Died in office
small>1258 to 1266	Simon de Wanton
small>1266 to 1278	Roger Skirnyng
small>1278 to 1288	William Middleton
small>1289 to 1299	Ralph Walpole	translated to Ely
small>1299 to 1325	John Salmon	Died in office
small>1325 to 1336	William Ayermin
small>1337 to 1343	Antony Bek
small>1344 to 1355	William Bateman
small>1356 to 1369	Thomas Percy
small>1370 to 1406	Henry Spenser	Died in office
small>1407 to 1413	Alexander Tottington
small>1413 to 1415	Richard Courtenay
small>1416 to 1425	John Wakering
small>1426 to 1436	William Alnwick	Translated to Lincoln
small>1436 to 1445	Thomas Brown	Bishop of Rochester
small>1445 to 1472	Walter Hart (Walter Le Hart)
small>1472 to 1498	James Goldwell
small>1499 to 1500	Thomas Jane
small>1501 to 1536	Richard Nykke (Richard Nix)
small>1536 to 1550	William Rugg (William Repps)	Protestant; resigned
small>1550 to 1554	Thomas Thirlby	Bishop of Westminster; Protestant - later reconciled; translated to Ely
small>1554 to 1558	John Hopton	Last Roman Catholic Bishop of Norwich
small>1560 to 1575	John Parkhurst
small>1575 to 1584	Edmund Freak	Bishop of Rochester; translated to Worcester
small>1585 to 1594	Edmund Scambler	Bishop of Peterborough
small>1594 to 1602	William Redman
small>1602 to 1617	John Jegon
small>1618 to 1619	John Overall	Bishop of Lichfield
small>1619 to 1628	Samuel Harsnet	Translated to York
small>1628 to 1631	Francis White	Translated to Ely
small>1632 to 1635	Richard Corbet	Bishop of Norwich
small>1635 to 1638	Matthew Wren	Translated to Ely
small>1638 to 1641	Richard Montague	Bishop of Chichester
small>1641 to 1656	Joseph Hall	Bishop of Exeter; died in office
small>1661 to 1676	Edward Reynolds
small>1676 to 1685	Antony Sparrow	Bishop of Exeter
small>1685 to 1691	William Lloyd	Bishop of Llandaff; Bishop of Peterborough; deposed
small>1691 to 1707	John Moore	Translated to Ely
small>1708 to 1721	Charles Trimnell	Translated to Winchester
small>1721 to 1723	Thomas Green	Translated to Ely
small>1723 to 1727	John Leng
small>1727 to 1732	William Baker	Bishop of Bangor
small>1733 to 1738	Robert Butts	Translated to Ely
small>1738 to 1748	Sir Thomas Gooch	Bishop of Bristol; translated to Ely
small>1748 to 1749	Samuel Lisle	Bishop of St Asaph
small>1749 to 1761	Thomas Hayter	Tranlsated to London
small>1761 to 1783	Philip Young	Bishop of Bristol
small>1783 to 1790	Lewis Bagot	Bishop of Bristol; translated to St Asaph
small>1790 to 1792	George Horne
small>1792 to 1805	Charles Manners-Sutton	translated to Canterbury
small>1805 to 1837	Henry Bathurst
small>1837 to 1849	Edward Stanley
small>1849 to 1857	Samuel Hinds	Resigned
small>1857 to 1893	John Thomas Pelham
small>1893 to 1910	John Sheepshanks
small>1910 to 1942	Bertram Pollock
small>1942 to 1959	Percy Mark Herbert
small>1959 to 1971	William Lancelot Scott Fleming
small>1971 to 1985	Maurice Arthur Ponsonby Wood
small>1985 to 1999	Peter John Nott
small>1999 to present	Graham Richard James

Bishop Of Norwich

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Norwich, England and its precursor offices

See also