bishop of ely

The Bishop of Ely is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury The diocese covers the county of Cambridgeshire (with the exception of the Soke of Peterborough) and has its see in the City of Ely, Cambridgeshire, where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity. The office has been in existence since the foundation of the see in 1109 under King Henry I. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Dr Anthony John Russell, BA, DPhil, the 68th Lord Bishop of Ely, who signs Anthony Ely.

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Ely, England

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small>1109 to 1133	Hervey	Translated from Bangor
small>1133 to 1174	Nigel
small>1174 to 1189	Geoffrey Ridel	Died in office
small>1189 to 1198	William Longchamp
small>1198 to 1220	Eustace
small>1220 to 1225	John of Fountains
small>1225 to 1229	Geoffrey de Burgo
small>1229 to 1255	Hugh of Northwold
small>1255 to 1258	William of Kilkenny
small>1258 to 1286	Hugh of Balsham
small>1286 to 1290	John of Kirkby
small>1290 to 1299	William of Louth
small>1299 to 1303	Ralph Walpole	Translated from Peterborough
small>1303 to 1310	Robert Orford
small>1310 to 1316	John Ketton
small>1316 to 1337	John Hotham
small>1337 to 1345	Simon Montacute
small>1345 to 1362	Thomas de Lisle
small>1362 to 1367	Simon Langham
small>1367 to 1374	John Barnet
small>1374 to 1388	Thomas Arundel (Thomas FitzAlan)	Translated to York
small>1388 to 1426	John Fordham
small>1426 to 1438	Philip Morgan
small>1438 to 1444	Lewis of Luxembourg
small>1444 to 1454	Thomas Bourgchier (Thomas Bourgchier)	Translated to Canterbury
small>1454 to 1479	William Grey
small>1479 to 1486	John Morton	Translated to Canterbury
small>1486 to 1501	John Alcock	Translated from Worcester
small>26 September 1501 to 24 August 1505	Richard Redman	Translated from Exeter; died in office
small>17 July 1506 to 1515	James Stanley	Constituted by Papal Bull
small>1515 to 1534	Nicholas West
small>1534 to 10 May 1554	Thomas Goodrich (Thomas Goodricke)	Died in office
small>1554 to 5 July 1559	Thomas Thirlby	Translated from Norwich; deprived
small>1559 to 22 July 1581	Richard Cox	Died in office
small>1600 to 1609	Martin Heton
small>1609 to 1619	Lancelot Andrews	Translated to Chichester
small>1619 to 1628	Nicolas Felton
small>1628 to 1631	John Buckeridge
small>1631 to 1638	Francis White
small>1638 to 1667	Matthew Wren
small>1667 to 1675	Benjamin Laney
small>1675 to 6 July 1684	Peter Gunning	Translated from Chichester; died in office
small>1684 to 1691	Francis Turner
small>1691 to 1707	Simon Patrick
small>1707 to 1714	John Moore
small>1714 to 1723	William Fleetwood
small>1723 to 1738	Thomas Greene
small>1738 to 1748	Robert Butts
small>1748 to 1754	Thomas Gooch
small>1754 to 1771	Matthias Mawson
small>1771 to 1781	Edmund Keene
small>1781 to 1808	James Yorke
small>1808 to 1812	Thomas Dampier
small>1812 to 1836	Bowyer Edward Sparke
small>1836 to 1845	Joseph Allen
small>1845 to 1864	Thomas Turton
small>1864 to 1873	Edward Harold Browne
small>1873 to 1886	James Russell Woodford
small>1886 to 1905	Alwyne Frederick Compton
small>1905 to 1924	Frederick Henry Chase
small>1924 to 1934	Leonard Jauncey White-Thomson
small>1934 to 1941	Bernard Oliver Francis Heyward
small>1941 to 1957	Harold Edward Wynn
small>1957 to 1964	Noel Baring Hudson
small>1964 to 1977	Edward James Keymer Roberts
small>1977 to 1990	Peter Knight Walker
small>1990 to 2000	Stephen Whitefield Sykes	Resigned
small>2000 to present	Dr Anthony John Russell, BA, DPhil

Bishop Of Ely

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Ely, England

See also