Bishop of Bangor

The Bishop of Bangor is the Ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor.

The diocese covers the county of Anglesey, most of Gwynedd and a small part of Powys. The see is in the City of Bangor where the seat is located at Cathedral Church of Saint Deniol.

The Bishop's residence is Tŷ'r Esgob in Bangor.

The diocese in the Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd was founded around 546 by Saint Deniol. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Phillip Anthony Crockett, the 80th Bishop of Bangor, who was enthroned at Bangor Cathedral on 18 September 2004 and who signs Anthony Bangor.

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Bangor, Wales

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
c546 to 572	Deniol (Daniel)	Saint Deniol; founded monastery at Bangor 525; according to Haydn's bishop from 516
572 to c768	unknown
c768 to 809	Elfodd (Elbodug)
809 to c904	unknown
c904 to ???	Morlais
??? to 1055	unknown
c1050 to ????	Dyfan
c1081 to ????	Revedun
1107 to 1109	Hervey (Hervaeus; Harve)	Translated to Ely
1109 to 1120	Urban	Bishop of Llandaff
1120 to 1139	David (David the Scot)
1139 to 1162	Mauritius (Maurice; Meuricus)
1162 to 1177	Gwion (William)	Prior of St Austin's, Bristol
1177 to c1191	Guy (Guido; Guianus)
c1191 to 1195	vacant	For 4 years
1195 to 1197	Albanus (Alan)	Prior of St John of Jerusalem
1197 to 1215	Robert de Shrewsbury
1215 to 1236	Cadwgan (Caducan; Martin)
1236 to 1240	Hywel (Howell)
1240 to 1267	Richard
1267 to 1303 (or 1307)	Anianus (Anian; Einon)	Archdeacon of Anglesey
1303 to 1306	Cadwgan (Caducan)
1307 to 1300	Gruffyd ap Iorwerth (Griffin ap Yerward; Griffith)	According to Haydn's: 1306 to 1320
1320 to 1327	Lewis	According to Heylyn
1309 to 1328	Anian Seys (Einon Sais)	According to Le Neve
1327 to 1357	Matthew de Englefeld
1357 to 1366	Thomas de Ringstede
1366 to 1370	Gervase de Castro
1370 to 1371	Hywel ab Goronwy (Howell ab Gronow)
1371 to 1375	John Gilbert
1375 to 1400	John Swaffham styled John Clovensis by Heylyn	Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland
1400 to 1405	Richard Young	Translated to Rochester
1405 to 1408	Llewellyn Bifort (Llewellyn Byford; Lewis )
1408 to 1418	Benedict Nichols ( Benedict Nicholls)
1418 to 1424	William Barrow (William Barrowe)	Canon of Lincoln; translated to Carlisle
1424 to 1436	Nicholaus Clederow (John Clederow; John Cliderow)	Canon of Chichester
1436 to 1448	Thomas Cheryton (Thomas Cheriton)
1448 to 1454	John Stanbery (John Stanbury)
1454 to 1464	James Blakedon	Bishop of Achad-Fobhair
1464 to 1496	Thomas Ednam alias Richard Evynden (Richard Edenham)
1496 to 1500	Henry Deane	Prior of Llanthony and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
1500 to 1504	Thomas Pigot
1504 to 1509	John Penny	Translated to Carlisle
1509 to 1534	Thomas Skeffington	Abbot of Waverley
1534 to 1539	John Salcott alias Capon
1539 to 1541	John Birde	Last Provincial of the Carmelites; translated to Chester
1541 to March 1552	Arthur Bulkeley	Died in office
March 1552 to 1555	vacant	for 3 years
1555 to 1559	William Glynn	Master of Queen's College, Cambridge
1559 to 1566	Rowland Merrick	Chancellor and Residentiary of St David's
1566 to 1585	Nicholas Robinson
1585 to 1595	Hugh Bellot	Translated to Chester
1595 to 1598	Richard Vaughan	Archdeacon of Middlesex; translated to Chester
1598 to 1616	Henry Rowlands
1616 to 1631	Lewis Bayley
1631 to 1633	David Dolben
1633 to 1637	Edmund Griffith	Dean of Bangor
1637 to 1666	William Roberts	Sub-dean of Wells
1666 to 1673	Robert Morgan	Archdeacon of Merioneth
1673 to 1689	Humphrey Lloyd	Dean of St Asaph
1689 to 1701	Humphrey Humphreys	Dean of Bangor; translated to Hereford
1701 to 1715	John Evans	Translated to Meath, Ireland
1715 to 1721	Benjamin Hoadley	Rector of St Peter's-le-Poor, London; translated to Hereford
1721 to 1723	Richard Reynolds	Dean of Peterborough; translated to Lincoln
1723 to 1728	William Baker	Warden of Wadham College, Oxford; translated to Norwich
1728 to 1734	Thomas Sherlock	Dean of Chichester; translated to Salisbury
1734 to 1737	Charles Cecil	Translated from Bristol
1737 to 1743	Thomas Herring	Dean of Rochester; translated to York
1743 to 1748	Matthew Hutton	Translated to York
1748 to 1756	Zacariah Pearce (Zachary Pearce )	Dean of Winchester; translated to Rochester
1756 to 1769	John Egerton	Dean of Hereford; translated to Lichfield and Coventry
1769 to 1774	John Ewer	Translated from Llandaff
1774 to 1783	John Moore	Dean of Canterbury; translated to Canterbury
1783 to 1800	John Warren	Translated from St David's
5 April 1800 to 1806	William Cleaver	Translated from Chester; translated to St Asaph
13 December 1806 to 1809	John Randolph	Translated from Oxford; translated to London
12 August 1809 to 9 July 1830	Henry William Majendie	Translated from Chester; died in office
10 October 1830 to 19 April 1859	Christopher Bethell	Translated from Exeter; died in office
12 May 1859 to 1890	James Colquhoun Campbell	Archdeacon of Llandaff
1890 to 1898	Daniel Lewis Lloyd
1899 to 1924	Watkin Herbert Williams
1925 to 1928	Daniel Davies
1928 to 1944	Charles Alfred Howel Green	Also Archbishop of Wales 1934-1944
1944 to 1948	David Edwards Davies
1949 to 1956	John Charles Jones
1957 to 1982	Gwilym Owen Williams	Also Archbishop of Wales 1971-1982
1982 to 1992	John Cledan Mears
1992 to 1999	Barry Cennydd Morgan
2000 to 2004	Francis James Saunders Davies	Elected 1999
2004 to present	Phillip Anthony Crockett	Archdeacon of Carmarthen and Vicar of Cynwyl Elfed, Cwm Duad and Newchurch; enthroned 18 September 2004

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Sources

Haydn's Book of Dignities (1894) Joseph Haydn/Horace Ockerby, reprinted 1969
Whitaker's Almanack 1883 to 2004, Joseph Whitaker and Sons Ltd/A&C Black, London
http://www.esgobaethbangordiocese.org

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