Bishop of St Asaph

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Bishop of St Asaph

The Bishop of Saint Asaph is the Ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Saint Asaph.

The diocese covers the counties of Denbighshire, Flintshire and the eastern parts of Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire. The see is in the town of St Asaph where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Asaph which was founded as a monastery around 560, becoming elevated to cathedral status in 583.

The office was created in 583 at the founding of the diocese. The current bishop is the Right Reverend John Stewart Davies, the 75th Bishop of Saint Asaph, who was consecrated in October 1999 and who signs John St Asaph.

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Saint Asaph, Wales

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
583 to ???	Kentigern (Mungo)	Bishop of Glasgow; Saint Kentigern / Saint Mungo
??? to ???	…
1143 to 1152	Gilbertus (Galfridus)
1152 to 1154	Geoffrey of Monmouth
1154 to 1155	Richard	Died in office
1155 to 1175	Godefridus (Godfrey)
1175 to 1183	Adam	Canon of Paris
1183 to 1186	Johannes (John)
1186 to 1225	Reinerus (Reyner)
1225 to 1235	Abraham
1235 to 1240	Hugo (Hugh)
1240 to c.1247	Howel ap Ednevet
c.1247 to 1249	vacant
1249 to 1267	Enion (Anian)
1267 to 1268	John
1268 to 1293	Enion (Anian)
1293 to 1314	Leoline de Bromfeld	Canon of St Asaph
1314 to 1352	David
1352 to 1357	John Trevaur
1357 to 1376	Leoline ap Madoc	Dean of St Asaph
1376 to 1382	William de Sprinlington	Dean of St Asaph
1382 to 1390	Lawrence Child	Penitentiary to the pope
1390 to 1395	Alexander Bache
1395 to 1402	John Trevaur	Prebendary of Hereford; deprived
1402 to 1411	David
1411 to 1433	Robert de Lancaster
1433 to 1444	John Lowe	Translated to Rochester
1444 to 1450	Reginald Peacock	Translated to Chichester
1450 to 1461	Thomas
1461 to 1472	Thomas
1472 to 1495	Richard Redman	Translated to Exeter
1495 to 1499	Michael Dyacon
1499 to 1503	David
1503 to 1513	David	Abbot of Conway
1513 to 1518	Edmund Birkhead
1518 to 1535	Henry Standish
1535 to 1536	William Barlow	Translated to St David's
1536 to 1554	Robert Warton (Robert Parfew; Robert Parfoy)	Abbot of Bermondsey; translated to Hereford
1554 to 1559	Thomas Goldwell	Went into voluntary exile
1559 to 1561	Richard Davies	Translated St David's
1561 to 1573	Thomas Davies
1573 to 1601	William Morgan	Translated from Llandaff
1601 to 1603	William Morgan	Translated from Llandaff
1603 to 1622	Richard Parry	Dean of Bangor
1622 to 1629	John Hamner	Prebendary of Worcester
1629 to 1651	John Owen	Archdeacon of St Asaph; died in office
1651 to 1660	vacant	For 9 years
1660 to 1667	George Griffith	Archdeacon of St Asaph
1667 to 1669	Henry Glenham	Dean of Bristol
1669 to 1680	Isaac Barrow	Translated from Sodor & Man
1680 to 1692	William Lloyd	Dean of Bangor; translated from Lichfield & Coventry
1692 to 1703	Edward Jones	Translated from Cloynes, Ireland
1703 to 1704	George Hooper	Dean of Canterbury; translated to Bath & Wells
1704 to 1708	William Beveridge	Archdeacon of Colchester
1708 to 1714	William Fleetwood	Canon of Windsor; translated to Ely
1714 to 1727	John Wynne	Principal of Jesus College, Oxford; translated to Bath & Wells
1727 to 1731	Francis Hare	Dean of Worcester and dean of St Paul's, London; translated to Chichester
1731 to 1736	Thomas Tanner	Canon of Christ Church, Oxford
1736 to 1743	Isaac Maddox	Dean of Wells; translated to Worcester
1743 to 1743	John Thomas	Dean of Peterborough; elected but translated to Lincoln before consecration
1743 to 1748	Samuel Lisle	Archdeacon of Canterbury; translated to Norwich
1748 to 1761	The Honourable Robert Drummond	Prebendary of Westminster; translated to Salisbury
1761 to 1769	Richard Newcombe	Translated from Llandaff
1769 to 1789	John Shipley	Translated from Llandaff
1789 to 1790	Samuel Halifax	Translated from Gloucester
1790 to 1802	Lewis Bagot	Translated from Norwich
29 July 1802 to 4 October 1806	Samuel Horsley	Translated from Rochester
15 October 1806 to 15 May 1815	William Cleaver	Translated from Bangor
23 May 1815 to 21 January 1830	John Luxmore	Translated from Hereford
23 February 1830 to 13 September 1846	William Carey	Translated from Exeter
10 October 1846 to January 1870	Thomas Vowler Short	Translated from Sodor & Man; resigned
25 May 1870 to 1889	Joshua Hughes	Vicar of Llandovery
1889 to 19??	Alfred G. Edwards
19?? to 1950	…
1950 to 1971	David Daniel Bartlett, DD
1971 to 1982	Harold John Charles, MA
1982 to 1999	Alwyn R Jones	Also Archbishop of Wales
1999 to present	John Stewart Davies

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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 & Sons Ltd/A&C Black, London
http://tejones.net/religion/Bishops

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List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Saint Asaph, Wales

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