Diocese of Durham
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DIOCESE OF DURHAM
Country : United Kingdom
Denomination : Anglican (until 1561 Roman Catholic)
Established : 635 as Diocese of Lindisfarne
Renamed 882 to Diocese of Lindisfarne in Chester-le-Street
Renamed 995 to Diocese of Durham
Suppressed 1552
Re-established 1554
Suppressed 1559 and continued in 1561 as an Anglican diocese
Official blazon
Azure, a cross Or between four lions rampant argent.
Origin/meaning
The arms were recorded at the College of Arms in 1530, but were already used by the Catholic Bishops.
The arms appears first in the Seal of Robert Nevill, bishop from 1438-1457. The lions might come from the arms of Thomas Hatfield, bishop from 1345-1381.
Arms with the field red and the cross and lions silver is also said to be the Arms of St. Denys bishop and martyr. The Bishop of Durham alone among English Bishops has the right to have a coronet about the rim of the mitre. This in remembrance of the Palatine authority exercised by the Bishops until 1835.
Arms of Roman Catholic Bishops
Richard le Poor (1228-1237)
Antony Bek (1283-1311 )
Richard Kellaw (1311-1316)
Louis de Beaumont (1317-1333)
Richard de Bury (1333-1345)
Thomas Hatfield (1345-1381)
John Fordham (1381-1388)
Walter Skirlaw (1388-1406)
Thomas Langley (1406-1437)
Robert Neville (1437-1457)
Lawrence Booth (1457-1476)
William Dudley (1476-1483)
John Shirwood (1484-1493)
Richard Foxe (1494-1501)
William Senhouse (1502-1505)
Christopher Bainbridge (1507-1508)
Thomas Ruthall (1509-1523)
Thomas Wolsey (1523-1529, Administrator)
Cuthbert Tunstall (1530-1559)
Arms of Anglican Bishops
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James Pilkington (1561-1576)
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Richard Barnes (1577-1587)
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Matthew Hutton (1589-1595)
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Tobias Matthew (1595-1606)
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William James (1606-1617)
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Richard Neile (1617-1627)
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George Montaigne (1627-1628)
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John Howson (1628-1632)
Thomas Morton (1632-1646)
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John Cosin (1660-1672)
Nathaniel Crew (1674-1722)
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William Talbot (1722-1730)
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Edward Chandler (1730-1750)
Joseph Butler (1750-1752)
Richard Trevor (1752-1771)
John Egerton (1771-1787)
Thomas Thurlow (1787-1791)
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Shute Barrington (1791-1826)
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William Van Mildert (1826-1836)
Edward Maltby (1836-1856)
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Charles Thomas Longley (1856-1860)
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Henry Villiers (1860-1861)
Charles Baring (1861-1879)
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1879-1889)
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Brooke Westcott (1890-1901)
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Handley Moule (1901-1920)
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Herbert Hensley Henson (1920-1939)
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Alwyn Williams (1939-1952)
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Arthur Michael Ramsey (1952-1956)
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Maurice Harland (1956-1966)
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Ian Ramsey (1966-1972)
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John Stapylton Habgood (1973-1983)
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David Edward Jenkins (1984-1994)
Michael Turnbull (1994-2003)
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Nicholas Thomas Wright (2003-2010)
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Justin Welby (2011-2013)
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Paul Butler (2014-present)
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Literature : Image from Wills's Arms of the Bishopric.