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DIOCESE OF LONDON
Country : United Kingdom
Denomination : Anglican (until 1558 Roman Catholic)
Established : ca. 200
Official blazon
Gules, two swords in saltire proper, hilts and pommels Or.
Origin/meaning
The arms were recorded at the College of Arms.
The first appearance of these arms is on the seal of Ralph Stratford (1340-54) although several of his predecessors since Bishop FitzNeal (1169-98) introduced into their seals the effigy of St. Paul, the patron of the cathedral, with his emblems of book and sword. The sword is the emblem of St. Paul with reference in the first instance to the manner of his death; it has also the secondary significance of his having wielded the Sword of the Spirit. In the Middle Ages it became customary to explain its constant association with this saint by his having been a Roman soldier. The usual explanation of the two swords is that one represents his martyrdom, the other his power as a teacher.
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Hugh d’Orivalle (1075-1085)
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Maurice (1085-1107)
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Richard de Belmeis (1108-1127)
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Gilbert the Universal (1127-1134)
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Robert de Sigillo (1141-1151)
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Richard de Belmeis (1152-1162)
Gilbert Foliot (1163-1187)
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Richard FitzNeal (1189-1198)
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William of Saint Mary’s Church (1199-1221)
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Eustace de Fauconberg (1221-1228)
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Roger Niger (1229-1241)
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Fulk Bassett (1244-1259)
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Henry Wengham (1259-1262)
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Richard Talbot (1262-1262)
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Henry Sandwich (1263-1273)
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John Chishull (1273-1280)
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Richard Gravesend (1280-1303)
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Ralph Baldock (1306-1313)
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Gilbert Segrave (1313-1316)
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Richard Newport (1317-1318)
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Stephen Gravesend (1318-1338)
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Richard Bintworth (1338-1339)
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Ralph Stratford (1340-1354)
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Michael Northburgh (1354-1361)
Simon Sudbury (1361-1375)
William Courtenay (1375-1381))
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Robert de Braybrooke (1381-1404 Died)
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Roger Walden (1404-1406)
Nicholas Bubwith (1406-1407)
Richard Clifford (1407-1421)
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John Kemp (1421-1425)
William Grey (1425-1431)
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Robert FitzHugh (1431-1436)
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Robert Gilbert (1436-1448)
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Thomas Kempe (1448-1489)
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Richard Hill (1489-1496)
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Thomas Savage (1496-1501)
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William Warham (1501-1503)
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William Barons (1504-1505)
Richard FitzJames (1506-1522)
Cuthbert Tunstall (1522-1530)
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John Stokesley (1530-1539)
Edmund Bonner (1539-1549)
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Nicholas Ridley (1550-1553)
Edmund Bonner (1553-1559)
Arms of Anglican Bishops
Edmund Grindal (1559-1570)
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Edwin Sandys (1570-1577)
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John Aylmer (1577-1594)
Richard Fletcher (1594-1596)
Richard Bancroft (1597-1604)
Richard Vaughan (1604-1607)
Thomas Ravis (1607-1609)
George Abbot (1610-1611)
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John King (1611-1621)
George Montaigne (1621-1628)
William Laud (1628-1633)
William Juxon (1633-1646, 1660)
Gilbert Sheldon (1660-1663)
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Humphrey Henchman (1663-1675)
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Henry Compton (1675-1713)
John Robinson (1713-1723)
Edmund Gibson (1723-1748)
Thomas Sherlock (1748-1761)
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Thomas Hayter (1761-1762)
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Richard Osbaldeston (1762-1764)
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Richard Terrick (1764-1777)
Robert Lowth (1777-1787)
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Beilby Porteus (1787-1809)
John Randolph (1809-1813)
William Howley (1813-1828)
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Charles James Blomfield (1828-1856)
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Archibald Campbell Tait (1856-1868)
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John Jackson (1869-1885)
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Frederick Temple (1885-1896)
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Mandell Creighton (1897-1901)
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Arthur Winnington-Ingram (1901-1939)
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Geoffrey Fisher (1939-1945)
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William Wand (1945-1955)
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Henry Montgomery Campbell (1956-1961)
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Robert Stopford (1961-1973)
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Gerald Ellison (1973-1981)
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Graham Leonard (1981-1991)
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David Hope (1991-1995)
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Richard Chartres (1995-2017)
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Pete Broadbent (2017-2018)
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Sarah Mullally (2018-present)
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