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DIOCESE OF LICHFIELD
Country : United Kingdom
Denomination : Anglican
Established : 656 as Diocese of Mercia, renamed in 664
Official blazon
Party per pale, gules and argent, a cross potent and quadrate in the center between four crosslets patee of the second and or.
Origin/meaning
The arms were recorded at the College of Arms.
The arms show the Cross of St. Chad, the patron saint of the diocese. Lichfield was made the episcopal see by St. Chad (Ceadda) in 669.
The earliest seal on which arms are found for the diocese is that of William Booth (1447-1452) where only a cross potent is seen as the diocesan arms.
Arms of Bishops
Richard Sampson (1543-1554)
George Abbot (1609-1610)
Robert Wright (1632-1643)
William Lloyd (1692-1699)
Richard Smalbroke (1731-1749)
Frederick Cornwallis (1750-1768)
John Egerton (1769-1771)
- Lichfield-dalrymplemaclagan.rel.jpg
William Dalrymple Maclagan (1878-1891)
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Literature : Image from Wills's Arms of the Bishopric.