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'''DIOCESE OF CHESTER''' | '''DIOCESE OF CHESTER''' | ||
Revision as of 14:09, 26 December 2022
DIOCESE OF CHESTER
Country : United Kingdom
Denomination : Anglican
Established : 1541
Official blazon
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
John Bird (1541-1554)
George Cotes (1554-1555)
Cuthbert Scott (1556-1559)
William Downham (1561-1577)
William Chaderton (1579-1595)
Hugh Bellot (1595-1596)
Richard Vaughan (1597-1604)
George Lloyd (1604-1615)
Thomas Morton (1616-1619)
John Bridgeman (1619-1646)
Brian Walton (1660-1661)
Henry Ferne (1662-1662)
George Hall (1662-1668)
John Wilkins (1668-1672)
John Pearson (1673-1686)
Thomas Cartwright (1686-1689)
Nicholas Stratford (1689-1707)
William Dawes (1708-1714)
Francis Gastrell (1714-1725)
Samuel Peploe (1726-1752)
Edmund Keene (1752-1771)
William Markham (1771-1776)
Beilby Porteus (1776-1787)
William Cleaver (1788-1800)
Henry William Majendie (1800-1809)
Bowyer Sparke (1810-1812)
George Henry Law (1812-1824)
Charles James Blomfield (1824-1828)
John Bird Sumner (1828-1848)
John Graham (1848-1865)
William Jacobson (1865-1884)
William Stubbs (1884-1889)
- Did not use arms
Francis Jayne (1889-1919)
Luke Paget (1919-1932)
Geoffrey Fisher (1932-1939)
- Did not use arms
Douglas Crick (1939-1955)
- Did not use arms
Gerald Ellison (1955-1973)
- Did not use arms
Victor Whitsey (1974-1981)
- Did not use arms
Michael Baughen (1982-1996)
- Did not use arms
Peter Forster (1996-2019)
- No image
Mark Tanner (2020-present)
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