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| olspan="3"|Diocese of Mercia |
| small>656 to 658 | Diuma
(Dwyna; Duma) | |
| small>658 to 659 | Ceollach
(Cellach) | A Scot, he resigned and returned to Scotland |
| small>659 to 663 | Thumere
(Trumhere) | Abbot of Ingethling |
| small>663 to 669 | Jaruman | |
| olspan="3"|Diocese of Lichfield |
| small>669 to 673 | Ceadda | Translated to York; Saint Chad |
| small>673 to 675 | Winfred
(Winfride) | Deprived by Theodore, Archbishop of York |
| small>675 to 691 | Sexwulf
(Saxulf; Sexulf) | Abbot of Medeshamstede (Peterborough); Saint Sexwulf |
| small>691 to 721 | Headdi
(Headda; Eatheadus of Sidnacester) | |
| small>721 to 737 | Aldwini
(Aldwyn) | |
| small>737 to 752 | Witta
(Huitta) | |
| small>752 to 765 | Hemele
(Hemel) | |
| small>765 to 768 | Cuthred
(Cuthfrid) | Died in office |
| small>768 to 785 | Berhthun | Died in office |
| small>785 to 786 | Higbert
(Sigbert) | |
| small>786 to 799 | Archbishop Adulf
(Adulphus) | Created Archbishop by Offa |
| small>799 to ??? | Adulf
(Adulphus) | Title of Archbishop laid aside |
| small>??? to ??? | Humbert | |
| small>812 to 834 | Herewin | |
| small>834 to 837 | Higbert
(Sigbert) | |
| small>837 to 845 | thelwald
(Ethelwold) | |
| small>845 to 864 | Hunberght
(Humbert II) | |
| small>864 to 872 | Kinebert
(Kenferth) | |
| small>872 to 898 | Cumbert
(Cumbert; Cineferth) | Saint Cumbert |
| small>898 to 901 (or 928) | Tunbriht
(Tunberht; Tunbright; Tunfrith; Tumfriht) | |
| small>?901 to 928 | Wigmund | Omitted from Haydn's |
| small>928 to 944 | Ella | |
| small>944 to 953 | lfgar | |
| small>953 to 954 | Kynsy
(Kinsey; Kinsius) | |
| small>964 to 977 | Wynsy
(Winsey; Winsius) | |
| small>977 to 990 | Elphege | |
| small>990 to 1007 | Godwin | |
| small>1007 to 1027 | Leofgar
(Leosgar) | |
| small>1027 to 1038 | Brihtmar
(Brithmar) | |
| small>1038 to 1054 | Wulsy
(Wolfius) | |
| small>1054 to 1067 | Leofwin | Abbot of Coventry |
| small>1067 to 1075 | Peter | Removed see to Chester |
| olspan="3"|See at Chester |
| small>1075 to 1085 | Peter | |
| small>1086 to 1102 | Robert de Limesey | Prebendary of St Paul's; removed See to Coventry |
| olspan="3"|See at Coventry |
| small>1102 to 1113 | Robert de Limesey | Died in office |
| small>1117 to 1121 | vacant | For 4 years |
| olspan="3"|Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield |
| small>1121 to 1127 | Robert Peche
(Robert Pecham) | Chaplain to King Henry I; died in office |
| small>1127 to 1129 | vacant | For 2 years |
| small>1129 | Roger de Clinton, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry | |
| small>1149 to 1161 | Walter Durdent | |
| small>1161 to 1181 | Richard Peche | |
| small>1181 to 1183 | vacant | |
| small>1183 to 1184 | Gerard la Pucelle | |
| small>1184 to 1188 | vacant | |
| small>1188 to 1198 | Hugh Nonant | |
| small>1198 to 1208 | Geofrey de Muschamp | |
| small>1208 to 1215 | vacant | |
| small>1215 to 1224 | William de Cornhill | |
| small>1224 to 1239 | Alexander de Stavenby | |
| small>1239 | William de Rule
(William de Raleigh) | Elected by both the chapter of Coventry and that of Lichfield but being also elected Norwich he accepted that office |
| small>1239 | William de Manchestre | Dean of Lichfield; elected by the Chapter of Lichfield but did not take office |
| small>1239 | Nicholas de Farnham | Elected by the Chapter of Coventry but did not take office |
| small>1239 to December 1241 | Hugh de Pateshull | Lord Treasured; accepted after much controversy between the two chapters and at the king's request; confirmed 25 December 1239; died in office |
| small>December 1241 to 1245 | vacant | |
| small> December 1241 to 8 December 1241 | Richard Crassus | Elected but died before consecration |
| small> 1243 | Robert de Monte Pessulano | Elected but refused the appointment, finding the election disagreeable to the king |
| small>1245 to 1258 | Roger Weseham | Dean of Lincoln; apppointed by the pope |
| small>1258 to 1296 | Roger de Meyland
(Roger de Longespée; Roger de Molend) | |
| small>1296 to 1322 | Walter de Langton | Lord Treasurer and Lord Chancellor |
| small>1322 to 1360 | Roger Northburgh
(Roger de Northbrugh) | Archdeacon of Richmond and Lord Keeper and Lord Treasurer |
| small>1360 to 1386 | Robert Stratton | Canon of Lichfield |
| small>1386 to 1386 | Walter Skirlaw | Dean of St Martin's; translated to Bath & Wells |
| small>1386 to 1398 | Richard Scroope
(Richard Scrope) | Translated to York |
| small>1398 to 1415 | John de Burghill
(John Burghill) | Translated from Llandaff |
| small>1415 to 1419 | John Catterick
(John Keterich) | Translated from St David's; translated to Exeter |
| small>1419 to 1419 | James Cary | Translated to Exeter but died before taking office thereof |
| small>20 November 1419 to 13 March 1447 | William Heyworth | |
| small>1447 to 1452 | William Booth | Prebendary of St Paul's, London; translated to York |
| small>1452 to 1453 | Nicholas Close | Translated from Carlisle; Chancellor of Cambridge |
| small>1453 to 1459 | Reginald Bolars
(Reginald Butler) | Translated from Hereford |
| small>1459 to 1492 | John Hales
(John Halse) | Prebendary of St Paul's, London |
| small>1492 to 1496 | William Smith | Archdeacon of Surrey; translated to Lincoln |
| small>1496 to 1503 | John Arundel | Dean of Exeter; translated to Exeter |
| small>1503 to 1524 | Godfrey Blyth
(Geoffry Blyth) | Dean of York |
| small>1524 to 1539 | Roland Lee
(Rowland Lee) | Chancellor and Prebendary of Lichfield and Lord President of Wales |
| olspan="3"|Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry |
| small>1539 to 1543 | Roland Lee
(Rowland Lee) | |
| small>1543 to 1554 | Richard Sampson | Elected schismatically; translated from Chichester; Lord President of Wales |
| small>1554 to 1559 | Ralph Bayne
(Ralph Baines) | Deprived and died soon after |
| small>1560 to 1580 | Thomas Bentham | Fellow of Magdalene College, Oxford |
| small>1580 to 1609 | William Overton | Prebendary of Winchester and Salisbury |
| small>1609 to 1610 | George Abbot | Dean of Winchester; translated to London |
| small>1610 to 1614 | Richard Neile
(Richard Neale) | Translated to Rochester |
| small>1614 to 1619 | John Overal | Dean of St Paul's, London; translated to Norwich |
| small>1619 to 1632 | Thomas Moreton | Translated from Chester; translated to Durham |
| small>1632 to 1643 | Robert Wright | Translated from Bristol |
| small>1643 to 1661 | Accepted Frewen | Dean of Gloucester; translated to York |
| small>1661 to 1671 | John Hacket | Canon-resident of St Paul's, London |
| small>1671 to 1692 | Thomas Wood | Dean of Lichfield |
| small>1692 to 1699 | William Lloyd | Translated from St Asaph; translated to Worcester |
| small>1699 to 1717 | John Hough | Translated from Oxford; translated to Worcester |
| small>1717 to 1730 | Edward Chandler | Prebendary of Worcester; translated to Durham |
| small>1730 to 1749 | Richard Smalbroke | Translated from St David's |
| small>1749 to 1768 | The Honourable Frederick Cornwallis | Canon of Windsor; Dean of St Paul's, London (1766); translated to Canterbury |
| small>1768 to 1771 | The Honourable John Egerton | Translated from Bangor; translated to Durham |
| small>1771 to 1774 | Brownlow North | Dean of Canterbury; translated to Worcester |
| small>1774 to 1781 | Richard Hurd | Master of the Temple; translated to Worcester |
| small>1781 to 1823 | The Honourable James Cornwallis | Dean of Canterbury; becoming the Earl of Cornwallis |
| small>1823 to 1824 | The Honourable James Cornwallis, the Earl of Cornwallis | Died in office |
| small>4 February 1824 to 31 March 1836 | The Honourable Henry Ryder | Translated from Gloucester; died in office |
| small>15 June 1836 to 24 January 1837 | Samuel Butler | Becoming Bishop of Lichfield |
| olspan="3"|Diocese of Lichfield |
| small>24 January 1837 to 4 December 1839 | Samuel Butler | Died in office |
| small>30 December 1839 to 11 October 1843 | James Bowstead | Translated from Sodor & Man |
| small>6 November 1843 to 19 October 1867 | John Lonsdale | Archdeacon of Middlesex and Principal of King's College, London; died in office |
| small>13 December 1867 to 11 April 1878 | George Augustus Selwyn | Translated from New Zealand; died in office |
| small>13 May 1878 to ???? | William Dalrymple Maclagan, DD | Vicar of St Mary Abbot, Kensington |
| small>???? to 1953 | | |
| small>1953 to 1975 | Arthur Stretton Reeve, DD | |
| small>1975 to 1984 | Kenneth John Fraser Skelton, CBE, MA | Bishop of Matabeleland; Rector of Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland; retired |
| small>1984 to 2003 | Keith Norman Sutton | |
| small>2003 to present | Jonathan Glendhill | |