Diocese of Winchester

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DIOCESE OF WINCHESTER

Country : United Kingdom
Denomination : Roman Catholic (until 1559), Anglican

Established : 634 as the Bishopric of the West Saxons
Renamed to Diocese of in Winchester 662

Official blazon

Gules, two keys, endorsed and conjoined at the bows, in bend, wards in chief, the uppermost Or, the lower argent, a sword, the point in chief, interposed between them in bend sinister of the third, pomel and hilt gold.

Origin/meaning

The arms were recorded at the College of Arms.

The arms are combining the symbols of St. Peter (keys) and St. Paul (sword), the patron saints of the cathedral and diocese.

Arms of Catholic Bishops

William Giffard (1100-1129)
Henry of Blois (1129-1171)
Richard of Ilchester (1173-1188)
Godfrey de Lucy (1189-1204)
Peter des Roches (1205-1238)
William de Raley (1243-1250)
Aymer of Lusignan (1251-1260)
John Gervais (Gernsay) (1262-1268)
Nicolas of Ely (1268-1280)
John of Pontoise (1282-1304)
Henry Woodlock (1305-1316)
John Sendale (1316-1319)
Rigaud Asser (1320-1323)
John Stratford (1323–1333)
Adam Orlton (1333-1345)
William Edendon (1346-1366)
William Wykeham (1367-1404)
Henry Beaufort (1404-1447)
William Waynflete (1447-1486)
Peter Courtenay (1487-1492)
Thomas Langton (1493-1501)
Richard Foxe (1501-1528)
Thomas Wolsey (1529-1530)
Stephen Gardiner (1531-1551 and 1553-1555)
John White (1556-1559)

Arms of Anglican Bishops

John Ponet (1551-1553)
Robert Horne (1560-1580)
John Watson (1580-1584)
Thomas Cooper (1584-1594)
William Wickham (1594-1595)
William Day (1595-1596)
Thomas Bilson (1597-1616)
James Montague (1616-1618)
Lancelot Andrewes (1618-1626)
Richard Neile (1627-1632)
Walter Curle (1632-1646)
Brian Duppa (1660-1662)
George Morley (1662-1684)
Peter Mews (1684-1706)
Jonathan Trelawny (1707-1721)
Charles Trimnell (1721-1723)
Richard Willis (1723-1734)
Benjamin Hoadly (1734-1761)
John Thomas (II) (1761-1781)
Brownlow North (1781-1820)
George Pretyman (1820-1827)
Charles Richard Sumner (1827-1869)
Samuel Wilberforce (1869-1873)
Edward Harold Browne (1873-1890)
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Anthony Thorold (1891-1895)
Randall Thomas Davidson (1895-1903)
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Herbert Edward Ryle (1903-1911)
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Edward Talbot (1911-1923)
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Theodore Woods (1923-1932)
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Cyril Garbett (1932-1942)
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Mervyn Haigh (1942-1952)
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Alwyn Williams (1952-1961)
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Falkner Allison (1961-1975)
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John Taylor (1975-1985)
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Colin James (1985-1995)
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Michael Scott-Joynt (1995-2011)
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Tim Dakin (2012-present)

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