The Archbishops of York

FoIlowing are the dates of investiture of the Archbishops of York:

BISHOPS OF YORK

Paulinus

625-633

1

See vacant

633-644


Chad

644-669

2

Wilfrid I

669-677

3

Bosa

678-686

4

Wilfrid I (again)

691-705

3

John of Beverley

705

5

Wilfrid II

718-732

6

Egbert

732

7

ARCHBISHOPS after 735

Egbert

735-766

7

Ethelbert

767-780

8

Eanbald I

780

9

Eanbald II

796

10

Wulfsige

808

11

Wigmund

837

12

Wulfhere

854

13

Ethelbald

900

14

Hrothweard

c.904

15

Wulfstan I

931

16

Osketyl

958

17

Oswald

971

18

Edwald

971

19

Ealdulf

992

20

Wulfstan II

1002

21

Aelfric Puttoc

1023

22

Aethelric

1041

23

Cynesige

1051

24

Ealdred

1060

25

Thomas I of Bayeaux

1070

26

Gerard

1101

27

Thomas II

1109

28

Thurstan

1119

29

William Fitzherbert

1143-1147

30

Henry Murdac

1147-1154

31

William Fitzherbert (again)

1154

30

Roger of Pont l'Eveque

1154

32

Geoffrey Plantagenet

1181

33

Walter Gray

1215-1255

34

Sewal de Bovil

1256

35

Godfrey Ludham

1258

36

Walter Giffard

1266

37

William Wickwain

1279

38

John le Roman

1286

39

Henry Newark

1298

40

Thomas Corbridge

1300

41

William Greenfield

1306

42

William Melton

1317

43

William de la Zouche

1342

44

John Thoresby

1352

45

Alexander Neville

1374

46

Thomas Arundel

1388

47

Robert Waldby

1397

48

Richard le Scrope

1398

49

Henry Bowett

1407

50

John Kemp

1426

51

William Booth

1452

52

George Neville

1464

53

Lawrence Booth

1476

54

Thomas Rotherham

1480

55

Thomas Savage

1501

56

Christopher Bainbridge

1508

57

Thomas Wolsey

1514

58

Edward Lee

1531

59

Robert Holgate

1545

60

Nicolas Heath

1555

61

Thomas Young

1561

62

Edmund Grindal

1570

63

Edwin Sandys

1575

64

John Piers

1589

65

Matthew Hutton

1595

66

Tobias Matthew

1606

67

George Monteigne

1628

68

Samuel Harsnett

1629

69

Richard Neile

1632

70

John Williams

1641-1650

71

See vacant

1650-1660


Accepted Frewen

1660

72

Richard Sterne

1664

73

John Dolben

1683

74

Thomas Lamplugh

1688

75

John Sharp

1691

76

Sir William Dawes

1714

77

Lancelot Blackburne

1724

78

Thomas Herring

1743

79

Matthew Hutton

1747

80

John Gilbert

1757

81

Robert Hay Drummond

1761

82

William Markham

1777

83

Edward Venables Vernon Harcourt

1808

84

Thomas Musgrave

1847

85

Charles Thomas Longley

1860

86

William Thomson

1862

87

William Connor Magee

1891

88

William Dalrymple Maclagan

1891

89

Cosmo Gordon Lang

1909

90

William Temple

1929

91

Cyril Forster Garbett

1942

92

Arthur Michael Ramsey

1956

93

Frederick Donald Coggan

1961

94

Stuart Yarworth Blanch

1975

95

John Stapylton Habgood

1983

96

David Michael Hope

1995

97

John Sentamu
2005
98

If you are interested in the Apostolic Succession of these Archbishops, you should consult Matthew Duckett's two Web pages on Anglican lines of episcopal succession.

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 This Page prepared by Peter Large. Last updated 15 October, 2005.