Bishop of Bath and Wells
Bath and Wells is a
diocese in the
Church of England, having jurisdiction over much of southwestern England. The current seat of the Bishop is
Wells Cathedral. There is also a
Bath Abbey that was formerly the seat.
Bishops of Wells, 1061-1090
\n*Giso 1061-1088\n*John de Villula 1088-1090
Bishops of Bath, 1090-1245
\n*John de Villula 1090-1122\n*Godfrey 1123-1135\n*Robert 1136-1166\n*Reginald FitzJocelin 1173-1191\n*Savaric FitzGeldewin 1191-1205\n*Jocelin of Wells 1206-1242\n*Roger of Salisbury 1244-1245
Bishops of Bath and Wells, 1245-present
\n*Roger of Salisbury 1245-1247\n*William of Bitton I 1248-1264\n*Walter Giffard 1265-1266\n*William of Bitton II 1267-1274\n*Robert Burnell 1275-1292\n*William of March 1293-1302\n*Walter Haselshaw 1302-1308\n*John Droxford 1309-1329\n*Ralph of Shrewsbury 1329-1363\n*John Barnet 1363-1366\n*John Harewell 1367-1386\n*Walter Skirlaw 1386-1388\n*Ralph Erghum 1388-1400\n*Henry Bowet 1401-1407\n*Nicholas Bubwith 1407-1424\n*John Stafford 1424-1443\n*Thomas Beckington 1443-1465\n*Robert Stillington 1466-1491\n*Richard Fox 1492-1494\n*Oliver King 1495-1503\n*Adriano de Castello 1504-1518\n*Thomas Wolsey 1518-1523\n*John Clerk 1523-1541\n*William Knight 1541-1547\n*William Barlow 1548-1553\n*Gilbert Bourne 1554-1559\n*Gilbert Berkeley 1560-1581\n*Thomas Godwin 1584-1590\n*John Stil 1593-1608\n*James Montague 1608-1616\n*Arthur Lake 1616-1626\n*William Laud 1626-1628\n*Leonard Mawe 1628-1629\n*Walter Curle 1629-1632\n*William Peirs 1632-1670\n*Robert Creighton 1670-1672\n*Peter Mews 1673-1684\n*Thomas Ken 1685-1690\n*Richard Kidder 1691-1703\n*George Hooper 1704-1727\n*John Wynne 1727-1743\n*Edward Willes 1743-1773\n*Charles Moss 1774-1802\n*Richard Beadon 1802-1824\n*George Henry Law 1824-1845\n*Richard Bagot 1845-1854\n*Robert John Eden, 3rd Baron Auckland 1854-1869\n*Arthur Charles Hervey 1869-1894\n*George Wyndham Kennion 1894-1921\n*St John Basil Wynne Wilson 1921-1937\n*Francis Underhill 1937-1943\n*John William Charles Wand 1943-1945\n*Harold William Bradfield 1946-1960\n*Edward Barry Henderson 1960-1975\n*John Monier Bickersteth 1975-1991\n*James Lawton Thomson 1991-2001\n*Peter Price 2001-present
