Diocese of Gloucester

DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER

Country : United Kingdom
Denomination : Anglican
Established : 1541, united with Bristol 1836-1897

Official blazon

Azure, two keys endorsed in saltire, wards upwards, Or.

Origin/meaning

The arms were recorded at the College of Arms.

The two keys are the arms of the former St. Peters Abbey.

Arms of Bishops

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  John Wakeman (1541-1549)

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  John Hooper (1550-1554)

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  James Brooks (1554-1558)

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  Richard Cheyney (1562-1579)

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  John Bullingham (1581-1589)

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  Godfrey Goldsborough (1598-1604)

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  Thomas Ravis (1604-1607)

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  Henry Parry (1607-1610)

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  Giles Thomson (1610-1612)

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  Miles Smith (1612-1624)

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  Godfrey Goodman (1625-1646)

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  William Nicholson (1660-1672)

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  John Pritchett (1672-1681)

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  Robert Frampton (1681-1690)

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  Edward Fowler (1691-1714)

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  Richard Willis (1715-1722)

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  Joseph Wilcocks (1722-1731)

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  Elias Sydall (1731-1733)

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  Martin Benson (1734-1752)

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  James Johnson (1752-1759)

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  William Warburton (1759-1779)

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  James Yorke (1779-1781)

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  Samuel Hallifax (1781-1789)

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  Richard Beadon (1789-1802)

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  George Huntingford (1802-1815)

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  Henry Ryder (1815-1824)

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  Christopher Bethell (1824-1830)

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  James Henry Monk (1830-1856)

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  Charles Baring (1856-1861)

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  William Thomson (1861-1863)

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  Charles Ellicott (1863-1905)

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  Edgar Gibson (1905-1923)

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  Arthur Headlam (1923-1945)

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  Clifford Woodward (1946-1953)

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  Wilfred Askwith (1954-1962)

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  Basil Guy (1962-1975)

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  John Yates (1975-1992)

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  Peter Ball (1992-1993)

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  David Bentley (1993-2003)

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  Michael Perham (2004-2014)

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  Martyn Snow (2014-2015)

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  Rachel Treweek (2015-present)

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