Diocese of Chester

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DIOCESE OF CHESTER

Country : United Kingdom
Denomination : Anglican
Established : 1541

Origin/meaning

The arms were recorded at the College of Arms.

It it assumed that these Arms was that of the local Abbey of Benedictine Nuns, that was suppressed during Henry VIII.
The Abbey Church become the Cathedral of the new Diocese.

Arms of Bishops

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  John Bird (1541-1554)

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  George Cotes (1554-1555)

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  Cuthbert Scott (1556-1559)

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  William Downham (1561-1577)

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  William Chaderton (1579-1595)

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  Hugh Bellot (1595-1596)

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  Richard Vaughan (1597-1604)

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  George Lloyd (1604-1615)

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  Thomas Morton (1616-1619)

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  John Bridgeman (1619-1646)

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  Brian Walton (1660-1661)

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  Henry Ferne (1662-1662)

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  George Hall (1662-1668)

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  John Wilkins (1668-1672)

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  John Pearson (1673-1686)

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  Thomas Cartwright (1686-1689)

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  Nicholas Stratford (1689-1707)

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  William Dawes (1708-1714)

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  Francis Gastrell (1714-1725)

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  Samuel Peploe (1726-1752)

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  Edmund Keene (1752-1771)

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  William Markham (1771-1776)

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  Beilby Porteus (1776-1787)

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  William Cleaver (1788-1800)

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  Henry William Majendie (1800-1809)

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  Bowyer Sparke (1810-1812)

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  George Henry Law (1812-1824)

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  Charles James Blomfield (1824-1828)

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  John Bird Sumner (1828-1848)

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  John Graham (1848-1865)

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  William Jacobson (1865-1884)

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  William Stubbs (1884-1889)

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  Francis Jayne (1889-1919)

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  Luke Paget (1919-1932)

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  Geoffrey Fisher (1932-1939)

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  Douglas Crick (1939-1955)

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  Gerald Ellison (1955-1973)

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  Victor Whitsey (1974-1981)

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  Michael Baughen (1982-1996)

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  Peter Forster (1996-2019)

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  Keith Sinclair (Administrator) (2019-2020)

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  Mark Tanner (2020-present)

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