Bishop of St Asaph
Bishop of St Asaph | |
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Incumbent: Gregory Cameron | |
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Ecclesiastical province | Wales |
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Diocese | St Asaph |
Cathedral | St Asaph Cathedral |
The Bishop of St Asaph heads the Church in Wales diocese of St Asaph.
The diocese covers the counties of
The Bishop's residence is Esgobty, St Asaph. The current bishop is Gregory Cameron, who was elected on 5 January and consecrated on 4 April 2009. He became Bishop of St Asaph in succession to John Davies, who was consecrated in October 1999 and who retired in 2008.[1]
Early times
This diocese was supposedly founded by St
Middle Ages
The
The names and succession of the bishops after Saints Kentigern and Asaph are not clearly known until 1143. The last bishop in communion with Rome was
The Report of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty to inquire into the Ecclesiastical Revenues of England and Wales (1835) found the see had an annual net income of £6,301. This made it the wealthiest diocese in Wales and the fourth richest in Britain after Canterbury, London and Winchester.[2]
The see continued to be part of the Church of England until the Church was disestablished in Wales in 1920, since when it has been part of the (
List of the Bishops of St Asaph
Pre-reformation bishops
Bishops of St Asaph | |||
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From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
6th century AD | Kentigern (Saint Mungo) | Originally Bishop of Glasgow from c. 540; founded diocese as episcopus Elvensis, Elguensis, Elveiisis, Lanelwensis
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6th century AD | Saint Asaph | ||
c. 600 | Saint Tysilio | ||
c. 800 | Renchidus | ||
c. 928 | Cebur | ||
c. 1070 | Melanus | ||
1143 | c. 1151 | Gilbert | See recreated as suffragan of Canterbury |
c. 1152 | 1154 | Geoffrey of Monmouth | |
1154 | 1155 | Richard | Died in office |
c. 1160 | 1165 | Godfrey | Left see to become abbot of Abingdon in 1165, removed from office in 1175 |
1175 | 1181 | Adam the Welshman | Canon of Pershore |
1183 | c. 1186 | John I | |
1186 | c. 1224 | Reiner | |
1225 | c. 1233 | Abraham | |
1235 | c. 1241 | Hugh | Monk of the Friars |
1242 | 1247 | Hywel ab Ednyfed | Also known as Howel ap Ednevet |
1247 | 1249 | vacant | |
1249 | 1266 | Einion I | Also known as Anian |
1267 | 1268 | John II | |
1268 | 1293 | Einion II | Also known as Anian de Schonau, prior of Rhudland |
1293 | 1314 | Llywelyn de Bromfield | Also known as Leolinus de Bromfield |
1315 | c. 1352 | Dafydd ap Bleddyn | Also known as David ap Blethin; canon of St. Asaph |
1352 | 1357 | John Trevor (I) | Also known as John Trevaur |
1357 | 1375 | Llywelyn ap Madog | Also known as Leolinus ap Madoc ap Elis; dean of St. Asaph |
1376 | 1382 | William Spridlington | Also known as William de Spridlington; dean of St. Asaph |
1382 | 1389 | Lawrence Child | Monk of Battle Abbey, licentiate of the civil law |
1390 | 1394 | Alexander Bache | Also known as Alexander Bach; canon of St. Asaph |
1395 | 1402 | John Trevor (II) | Prebendary of Hereford; deprived, possibly reinstated following David II as see not declared vacant prior to his death in 1410 |
1402 | c. 1408 | David II | |
1411 | c. 1433 | Robert Lancaster | Also known as Robert of Lancaster |
1433 | 1444 | John Low | Also known as John Lobbe; a friar eremite; translated to Rochester |
1444 | 1449 | Reginald Pecock | Also known as Reginald Peacock; translated to Chichester |
1450 | 1463 | Thomas Bird | Also known as Thomas Knight; deprived for rebellion; temporalities of the diocese to the king, the bishop of Rochester, Robert Caunton, and John Stanley before the pardoning of Thomas in 1471 |
1471 | 1495 | Richard Redman | Translated to Exeter |
c. 1495 | 1500 | Michael Deacon | Also known as Michael Dyacon; the king's confessor |
1500 | 1503 | Dafydd ab Ieuan ab Iorwerth | Also known as David ap Yeworth; abbot of Valle Crucis |
c. 1503 | c. 1513 | Dafydd ab Owain | Also known as David ap Owen; abbot of Aberconwy |
1513 | 1518 | Edmund Birkhead | Also known as Edmund Brokehed |
1518 | 1535 | Henry Standish |
During the Reformation
Bishops of St Asaph | |||
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From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
c. 1535 | 1536 | William Barlow | Prior of Haverfordwest. Translated to St David's, then Bath & Wells, then Chichester
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1536 | 1554 | Robert Parfew | Also known as Robert Warton; abbot of St. Savior's Bermondsey; translated to Hereford |
1556 | c. 1559 | Thomas Goldwell CR | Went into voluntary exile (as Catholic) |
Post-Reformation
Bishops of the Church of England
Bishops of St Asaph | |||
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From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
1560 | 1561 | Richard Davies | Translated to St David's
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1561 | 1573 | Thomas Davies | |
1573 | 1600 | William Hughes
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1601 | 1604 | William Morgan | Translator of the Bible into Welsh. Translated from Llandaff |
1604 | 1623 | Richard Parry | Dean of Bangor |
1624 | 1629 | John Hanmer | Prebendary of Worcester |
1629 | 1646 | John Owen | Archdeacon of St Asaph; deprived of the see when episcopacy was abolished by Parliament on 9 October 1646; died 1651 |
1646 | 1660 | The see was abolished during the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.[3][4] | |
1660 | 1666 | George Griffith | Archdeacon of St Asaph |
1667 | 1670 | Henry Glemham | Dean of Bristol |
1670 | 1680 | Isaac Barrow | Translated from Sodor & Man |
1680 | 1692 | William Lloyd | Dean of Bangor; translated to Lichfield & Coventry, then Worcester |
1692 | 1703 | Edward Jones | Translated from Cloyne, Ireland |
1703 | 1704 | George Hooper | Dean of Canterbury; translated to Bath & Wells |
1704 | 1708 | William Beveridge | Archdeacon of Colchester |
1708 | 1714 | William Fleetwood | Canon of Windsor; translated to Ely |
1714 | 1727 | John Wynne | Principal of Jesus College, Oxford; translated to Bath & Wells |
1727 | 1731 | Francis Hare | Dean of Worcester and of St Paul's in London; translated to Chichester |
1732 | 1735 | Thomas Tanner | Canon of Christ Church, Oxford |
1736 | 1743 | Isaac Maddox | Dean of Wells; translated to Worcester |
1743 | 1744 | John Thomas | Dean of Peterborough; elected in Nov. but translated to Lincoln in Jan. before consecration |
1744 | 1748 | Samuel Lisle | Archdeacon of Canterbury; translated to Norwich |
1748 | 1761 | Robert Hay Drummond | Prebendary of Westminster; translated to Salisbury |
1761 | 1769 | Richard Newcome | Translated from Llandaff |
1769 | 1788 | Jonathan Shipley | Translated from Llandaff |
1789 | 1790 | Samuel Hallifax | Also known as Samuel Halifax; translated from Gloucester |
1790 | 1802 | Lewis Bagot | Translated from Norwich |
1802 | 1806 | Samuel Horsley | Translated from Rochester |
1806 | 1815 | William Cleaver | Translated from Bangor |
1815 | 1830 | John Luxmoore | Translated from Hereford |
1830 | 1846 | William Carey | Translated from Exeter |
1846 | 1870 | Thomas Vowler Short | Translated from Sodor & Man |
1870 | 1889 | Joshua Hughes | Vicar of Llandovery |
1889 | 1920 | Alfred George Edwards | Church in Wales disestablished 1920 |
Bishops of the disestablished Church in Wales
Bishops of St Asaph | |||
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From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
1920 | 1934 | Alfred George Edwards | First Archbishop of Wales 1920–1934 |
1934 | 1950 | William Havard | |
1950 | 1971 | David Bartlett | |
1971 | 1981 | Harold Charles | |
1981 | 1999 | Alwyn Rice Jones | Archbishop of Wales 1991–1999 |
1999 | 2008 | John Davies | |
2009 | incumbent | Gregory Cameron | Consecrated 4 April 2009 |
Source(s):[5][6] |
Assistant bishops
Among those who have served as assistant bishops of the diocese have been:
- 1993–1996: Huw Jones, later Bishop of St Davids
Notes
- ^ "New Bishop of St Asaph is chosen". BBC. 5 January 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge Vol.III, (1847), London, Charles Knight, p.362
- ^ Plant, David (2002). "Episcopalians". BCW Project. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- JSTOR 564164.
- ^ Hardy, T. Duffus. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae; or, a Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the Chief Officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge from the Earliest Times to the Year MDCCXV, Corrected and Continued to the Present Time, Vol. I, "St. Asaph's". Oxford Univ. Press, 1854. Accessed 18 Feb 2013.
- ^ "Historical successions: St Asaph". Crockford's Clerical Directory. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
References
- 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
- https://web.archive.org/web/20050320015243/http://tejones.net/religion/Bishops/
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ancient Diocese of Saint Asaph". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.