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The Bishops of Ely...

A list of the Bishops of Ely, from the foundation of the See in 1109, until the present day.

  1. 1109: Hervey
  2. 1133: Nigel
  3. 1174: Geoffrey Ridel
  4. 1189: William Longchamp
  5. 1198: Eustace
  6. 1220: John of Fountains
  7. 1225: Geoffrey de Burgo
  8. 1229: Hugh of Northwold
  9. 1255: William of Kilkenny
  10. 1258: Hugh of Balsham
  11. 1286: John of Kirkby
  12. 1290: William of Louth
  13. 1299: Ralph Walpole
  14. 1303: Robert Orford
  15. 1310: John Ketton
  16. 1316: John Hotham
  17. 1337: Simon Montacute
  18. 1345: Thomas de Lisle
  19. 1362: Simon Langham
  20. 1367: John Barnet
  21. 1374: Thomas Arundel
  22. 1388: John Fordham
  23. 1426: Philip Morgan
  24. 1438: Lewis of Luxembourg
  25. 1444: Thomas Bourgchier
  26. 1454: William Grey
  27. 1479: John Morton
  28. 1486: John Alcock
  29. 1501: Richard Redman
  30. 1506: James Stanley
  31. 1515: Nicholas West
  32. 1534: Thomas Goodrich
  33. 1554: Thomas Thirlby
  34. 1559: Richard Cox
  35. 1600: Martin Heton
  36. 1609: Lancelot Andrewes
  37. 1619: Nicolas Felton
  38. 1628: John Buckeridge
  39. 1631: Francis White
  40. 1638: Matthew Wren
  41. 1667: Benjamin Laney
  42. 1675: Peter Gunning
  43. 1684: Francis Turner
  44. 1691: Simon Patrick
  45. 1707: John Moore
  46. 1714: William Fleetwood
  47. 1723: Thomas Greene
  48. 1738: Robert Butts
  49. 1748: Thomas Gooch
  50. 1754: Matthias Mawson
  51. 1771: Edmund Keene
  52. 1781: James Yorke
  53. 1808: Thomas Dampier
  54. 1812: Bowyer Edward Sparke
  55. 1836: Joseph Allen
  56. 1845: Thomas Turton
  57. 1864: Edward Harold Browne
  58. 1873: James Russell Woodford
  59. 1886: Alwyne Frederick Compton
  60. 1905: Frederick Henry Chase
  61. 1924: Leonard Jauncey White-Thomson
  62. 1934: Bernard Oliver Francis Heyward
  63. 1941: Harold Edward Wynn
  64. 1957: Noel Baring Hudson
  65. 1964: Edward James Keymer Roberts
  66. 1977: Peter Knight Walker
  67. 1990: Stephen Whitefield Sykes
  68. 2000: Anthony John Russell