Bishop of Durham

The following people were Bishops and Prince-Bishops of Lindisfarne and Durham ( UK):

Bishops of Lindisfarne

• Saint Aidan ( 635-651 )
• Holy financing ( 651-661 )
• Saint Colman ( 661-664 )
• Holy Tuda ( 664-664 )

In the year 664 the bishop's seat was moved to York Wilfrid, successor of Tuda. The bishopric was restored by the Archbishop of Canterbury Theodore of Tarsus 678 after the banishment of Wilfrid from Northumbria by King Ecgfrith

• Eata of Hexham ( 678-685 )
• Saint Cuthbert ( 685-687 )
• Archbishop Wilfrid of York administered the diocese ( 687-688 )
• Holy Eadberht ( 688-698 )
• Holy Eadfrith ( 698-721 )
• Holy Æthelwald ( 721-740 )
• Cynewulf ( 740-780 )
• Higbald ( 780-803 )
• Egbert ( 803-821 )
• Egfrid ( Heathured ) ( 821-830 )
• Ecgred ( 830-845 )
• Eanbert ( 845-854 )
• Eardulf ( 854-875 )

The monks of Lindisfarne fled before the Danes 875 and the Bischöfssitz remained vacant for seven years. 882 settled Eardulf and his monks in Chester -le-Street and it was also bishop seat of the Bishops of Lindisfarne

Bishops of Lindisfarne in Chester -le-Street

• Eardulf ( 882-899 )
• Cutheard ( 900-915 )
• Tilred ( 915-928 )
• Wilgred ( 928-944 )
• Uchtred ( 944-947 )
• Sexhelm ( 947-947 )
• Aldred ( 947-968 )
• Elfdig ( 968-990 )
• Aldhun ( Ealdhun ) ( 990-995 )

995 presented the king Æthelred II peace restored by payment of the Danegeld to the Danish and Norwegian kings. Wanted Aldhun Lindisfarne let newly resurrected when he received a vision from God with the message, the body of Saint Cuthbert ought to rest in Durham. Since the time Durham seat of the bishops and the title is changed to Bishop of Durham

Bishops of Durham

• Aldhun ( Ealdhun ) 995-1018
• Vacant 1018-1021
• Eadmund 1021-1041
• Eadred 1041-1042
• Ethelric 1042-1056
• Ethelwin 1056-1071

Prince-Bishops of Durham

• Walcher 1071-1080
• William of St. Calais 1081-1096
• Ranulf Flambard 1099-1128
• Geoffrey Rufus ( Galfrid ) 1133-1141
• William Cumin 1141-1144
• William of St. Barbara 1143-1152
• Hugh de Puiset 1153-1195 (House Le Puiset )
• Philip of Poitou 1195-1208
• Richard Poore 1209-1213
• John de Grey 1213-1214
• Morgan 1215
• Richard Marsh 1217-1226
• William Scot 1226-1227
• Richard Poore 1228-1237
• Thomas de Melsonby 1237-1240
• Nicholas Farnham 1241-1249
• Walter of Kirkham 1249-1260
• Robert Stichill 1260-1274
• Robert of Holy Iceland 1274-1283
• Antony Bek 1283-1311 (also Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1306 to 1311 )
• Richard Kellaw 1311-1316
• Lewis de Beaumont 1317-1333
• Richard de Bury 1333-1345
• Thomas Hatfield 1345-1381
• John Fordham 1381-1388
• Walter Skirlaw 1388-1406
• Thomas Langley 1406-1437
• Robert Neville 1437-1457
• Laurence Booth 1457-1476
• William Dudley 1476-1483
• John Shirwood 1484-1493
• Richard Fox 1494-1501
• William Senhouse 1502-1505
• Christopher Bainbridge 1507-1508
• Thomas Ruthall 1509-1523
• Thomas Wolsey 1523-1529
• Cuthbert Tunstall 1530-1559

Prince-Bishops of Durham of the Church of England

• James Pilkington 1561-1576
• Richard Barnes 1577-1587
• Matthew Hutton 1589-1595
• Tobias Matthew 1595-1606
• William James 1606-1617
• Richard Neile 1617-1627
• George Mont Resteigne 1628
• John Howson 1628-1632
• Thomas Morton 1632-1659
• John Cosin 1660-1672
• Nathaniel Crew 1674-1721
• William Talbot 1721-1730
• Edward Chandler 1730-1750
• Joseph Butler 1750-1752
• Richard Trevor 1752-1771
• John Egerton 1771-1787
• Thomas Thurlow 1787-1791
• Shute Barrington 1791-1826
• William van Mildert 1826-1836

Bishops of Durham of the Church of England

• Edward Maltby 1836-1856
• Charles Longley 1856-1860
• Henry Villiers 1860-1861
• Charles Baring 1861-1879
• Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1879-1889
• Brooke Westcott 1890-1901
• Handley Moule 1901-1920
• Herbert Hensley Henson 1920-1939
• Alwyn Williams 1939-1952
• Arthur Michael Ramsey 1952-1956
• Maurice Harland 1956-1966
• Ian Ramsey 1966-1972
• John Stapylton Habgood 1973-1983
• David Edward Jenkins 1984-1994
• Michael Turnbull 1994-2003
• Nicholas Thomas Wright 2003-2010
• Justin Welby 2011-2013, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury
• Paul Butler 2014 -