Diocese of Hereford
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DIOCESE OF HEREFORD
Country : United Kingdom
Denomination : Anglican (until 1557 Roman Catholic)
Established : 676
Official blazon
Gules three Leopards' Faces reversed jessant-de-Lis two and one Or.
Origin/meaning
The arms were recorded at the College of Arms.
The arms are base on the arms of the powerful House of Cantilupe from which came Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford from 1275 to 1282. Adam Orlton, the next bishop but one after him, had two such fleurs-de-lis engraved in his seal, and after his time these arms came to be regarded as the arms of the See.
The leopards' heads are usually drawn reversed, but there is good reason for believing that they are nothing more than a decorative elaboration of the ball or knop from which the leaves of the flowers spring. The earliest examples of the arms of Cantilupe show three golden fleurs-de-lis on red, and the seal of a fifteenth-century Bishop of Hereford gives them in the shield of the See with very large plain knops. But usage has decided that the knops shall be leopards' heads reversed.
Arms of Roman Catholic Bishops
William Courtenay (1369-1375)
Edmund Lacy (1417-1420)
Thomas Polton (1420-1421)
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Richard Beauchamp (1448-1450)
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Reginald Boulers (1450-1453)
John Stanberry (1453-1474)
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Thomas Mylling (1474-1492)
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Edmund Audley (1492-1502)
Adriano di Castello (1502-1504)
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Richard Mayew (1504-1516)
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Charles Booth (1516-1535)
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Edward Foxe (1535-1538)
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John Skypp (1539-1552)
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John Harley (1553-1554)
Robert Parfew (1554-1557)
Arms of Anglican Bishops
John Scory (1559-1585)
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Herbert Westfaling (1585-1602)
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Robert Bennet (1603-1617)
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Francis Godwin (1617-1633)
William Juxon (1633-1633)
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Augustine Lindsell (1634-1634)
Matthew Wren (1634-1635)
Theophilus Feild (1635-1636)
George Coke (1636-1646)
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Nicholas Monck (1660-1661)
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Herbert Croft (1662-1691)
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Gilbert Ironside (Jr.) (1691-1701)
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Humphrey Humphreys (1701-1712)
Philip Bisse (1713-1721)
Benjamin Hoadly (1721-1723)
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Henry Egerton (1723-1746)
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James Beauclerk (1746-1787)
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John Harley (1787-1788)
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John Butler (1788-1802)
Folliott Cornewall (1802-1808)
John Luxmoore (1808-1815)
George Huntingford (1815-1832)
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Edward Grey (1832-1837)
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Thomas Musgrave (1837-1847)
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Renn Hampden (1847-1868)
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James Atlay (1868-1894)
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John Percival (1895-1917)
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Hensley Henson (1917-1920)
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Linton Smith (1920-1930)
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Charles Lisle Carr (1930-1941)
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Richard Parsons (1941-1948)
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Tom Longworth (1949-1961)
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Mark Hodson (1961-1973)
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John Eastaugh (1973-1990)
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John Oliver (1990-2003)
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Anthony Priddis (2004-2013)
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Richard Frith (2014-2019)
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Richard Jackson (2020-present)
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