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20 Records
1531–1689 Date range
15 Named people
7 Places
Chronological records 1531 Stephen Gardiner 1531
Winchester · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Winchester, 1st term
1534 Rowland Lee 10 January 1534
Coventry · Religion / Church of England
Consecrated as the Bishoop of Coventry & Lichfield
1539 Nicholas Heath 1539
Rochester · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Rochester
1543 Nicholas Heath 1543
Worcester · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Worcester
1551 John Ponet 1551
Winchester · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Winchester
1553 Stephen Gardiner 1553
Winchester · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Winchester, 2nd term
Nicholas Heath 1553
Worcester · Religion / Church of England
Restored as the Bishop of Worcester
1556 John White 1556
Winchester · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Winchester
1559 Edmund Grindal 1559
London · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of London
John Jewel 1559
Salisbury · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Salisbury
1560 Robert Horne 1560
Winchester · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Winchester
1568 Matthew Parker 1568
Canterbury · Religion / Church of England
Promotes the Bishops Bible
1576 John Aylmer 1576
Rochester · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Rochester
1577 John Aylmer 1577
London · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of London
John Aylmer 1577
Salisbury · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Salisbury
John Whitgift 1577
Worcester · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Worcester
1580 John Watson 1580
Winchester · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Winchester
1584 Thomas Cooper 1584
Winchester · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Winchester
1628 William Laud 1628
London · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of London
1689 Edward Stillingfleet 1689
Worcester · Religion / Church of England
Appointed Bishop of Worcester
Names involved Edmund Grindal Edward Stillingfleet John Aylmer John Jewel John Ponet John Watson John White John Whitgift Matthew Parker Nicholas Heath Robert Horne Rowland Lee Stephen Gardiner Thomas Cooper William Laud
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