bishop of exeter

The Bishop of Exeter is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the County of Devon. The see is in the City of Exeter where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter which was founded as an abbey possibly before 690. Devon (/Wessex) has held a bishopric since about 905 when, on the division of the Diocese of Sherborne, the first cathedral was founded at Tawton (now Bishop's Tawton). In 912 the seat was moved to the Collegiate Holy Cross Church at Crediton. Lyfing became Bishop of Crediton in 1027 and shortly afterwards became Bishop of St. Germans. It was he who united the two sees covering Cornwall and Devon. The seat was transferred again to the City of Exeter in 1050 under Edward the Confessor by Bishop Leofric. The diocese was redivided in 1877 along the Devon-Cornwall border by Henry Phillpotts, creating the Diocese of Truro. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Michael Laurence Langrish, the 70th Lord Bishop of Exeter, who signs Michael Exon.

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

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

width="20%"\|Tenure	width="40%"\|Incumbent	width="20%"\|Notes
olspan="3"\|See at Tawton
small>905 to 909	Werstan (Eadulphus)
small>909 to 912	Putta
olspan="3"\|See at Crediton
small>912 to 939	Edwulf
small>939 to 953	Aethelgar
small>953 to 973	Aelfwold I
small>973 to 978	Sideman
small>978 to 986	Aelfric
small>986 to 987	Aelfwold II
small>987 to 1013	Aelfwold III
small>1013 to 1027	Ednoth
small>1027 to 1046	Lyfing
small>1046 to 1050	Leofric	Becoming Bishop of Exeter
olspan="3"\|See at Exeter
small>1050 to 10 February 1072	Leofric	Hitherto Bishop of Crediton; died in office
small>1072 to 1107	Osbern FitzOsbern	Died in office
small>1107 to 26 September 1138	William Warelwast	Died in office
small>1138 to 28 March 1155	Robert of Chichester	Died in office
small>1155 to 1160	Robert Warelwast
small>1161 to 14 December 1184	Bartholomew Iscanus	Died in office
small>1186 to 1 June 1191	John the Chanter	Died in office
small>1194 to 26 October 1206	Henry Marshal	Died in office
small>1214 to 9 September 1223	Simon de Apulia	Died in office
small>1223 to 24 November 1244	William Bruere	Died in office
small>1245 to 26 December 1257	Richard Blundy (Richard Blondy)	Died in office
small>1258 to 22 July 1280	Walter Branscombe (Walter Bronescombe)	Died in office
small>1280 to 1 October 1291	Peter Quinel	Died in office
small>1291 to 1307	Thomas Bitton (Thomas de Bytton)
small>1308 to 1326	Walter Stapledon
small>1326 to 1327	James Berkeley
small>1327 to 1327	John Godeley
small>1327 to 1369	John Grandisson
small>1370 to 1394	Thomas Brantingham (Thomas Brantyngham)
small>1395 to 1419	Edmund Stafford
small>1419 to 1419	John Catterick (John Ketterick)
small>1420 to 1455	Edmund Lacey (Edmund Lacy)
small>1455 to 1456	John Hales
small>1456 to 1465	George Neville
small>1465 to 1478	John Booth (John Bothe)
small>1478 to 1487	Peter Courtenay
small>1487 to 1492	Richard Fox
small>1492 to 1495	Oliver King
small>1496 to 1502	Richard Redman
small>1502 to 1504	John Arundel
small>1504 to 1519	Hugh Oldham
small>1519 to 1551	John Veysey
small>1551 to 1553	Miles Coverdale
small>1553 to 1555	John Veysey	Restored
small>1555 to 1560	James Turberville
small>1560 to 1571	William Alleyn (William Alley)
small>1571 to 1578	William Bradbridge
small>1579 to 1594	John Woolton
small>1594 to 1597	Geravse Babington
small>1598 to 1621	William Cotton
small>1621 to 1626	Valentine Carey
small>1627 to 1641	Joseph Hall
small>1642 to 1659	Ralph Brownrigg
small>1660 to 1662	John Gauden
small>1662 to 1667	Seth Ward
small>1667 to 1676	Anthony Sparrow
small>1676 to 1688	Thomas Lamplugh
small>1688 to 1707	Jonathan Trelawney (John Trelawny )
small>1708 to 1716	Offspring Blackall
small>1717 to 1724	Lancelot Blackburn
small>1724 to 1742	Stephen Weston
small>1742 to 1746	Nicholas Claget
small>1746 to 1762	George Lavington
small>1762 to 1777	Frederick Keppel
small>1778 to 1792	John Ross
small>1792 to 1796	William Buller
small>1797 to 1803	Henry Reginald Courtenay
small>1803 to 1807	John Fisher
small>1807 to 1820	George Pelham
small>1820 to 1830	William Carey
small>1830 to 1830	Christopher Bethell
small>1830 to 1869	Henry Phillpotts	Died in office
small>1869 to 1885	Frederick Temple	Consecrated 21 December 1869; translated to London
small>1885 to 1900	Edward Henry Bickerseth
small>1900 to 1903	Herbert Edward Ryle
small>1903 to 1916	Archibald Robertson
small>1916 to 1936	Rupert Ernest William Gascoyne Cecil
small>1936 to 1948	Charles Edward Curzon
small>1949 to 1973	Robert Cecil Mortimer
small>1973 to 1985	Eric Arthur John Mercer
small>1985 to 1999	Geoffrey Hewlett Thompson
small>2000 to present	Michael Laurence Langrish	Bishop of Birkenhead

Bishop Of Exeter

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

See also