Bishop of Salisbury
The Bishop of Salisbury is the head of the diocese of Salisbury, in the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury, in the Church of England.
The diocese covers much of the counties of Wiltshire and Dorset. It has its seat at the Cathedral of Salisbury.
Origin of today's diocese was founded in the diocese of Sherborne to 705. My seat was. Pursuant to a decision of the City Council from London to Old Sarum and 1227 under King Henry III moved to New Sarum or Salis castle.
The first bishop was Aldhelm of Sherborne. The 77th and last Bishop of Salisbury, David Stancliffe, who was ordained in 1993 at Westminster Abbey and enthroned in the cathedral of Salisbury. He retired in 2010. The chapter elected in 2011 Nicholas Roderick Holtam, the vicar of St. Martin-in -the-Fields, in the diocese of London, to be his successor.
Bishop of Sherborne
- 705-710 Saint Aldhelm
- 710-738 Ford Here
- 738-756 Here the forest
- 756-778 Ethel forest
- 778-798 Denefrith
- 798 -? Wilbert
- 824-868 Ealstan ( Alfstan )
- 868-872 Holy Eadmund ( Hamund; Heahmund )
- 872-875 Etheleage ( Æthelheah )
- 875 Wulfsige I.
- 875-879 Asher Menevensis
- 879-883 Swithelmus ( Sigelmus )
- 883-889 Ethel forest
- 906-918 Werstane ( Wærstan )
- 918-925 Ethelbald
- 925-934 Sigelmus ( Sigehelm )
- 934-941 Alfred
- 941-958 Wulfine ( Wulfsige II )
- 958-978 Alfwold ( Elfwold I. )
- 878 Wulfsige III.
- 978-986 Athelric
- 986-998 Ethelsius ( Æthelsige )
- 998-1009 Brithwyn I. ( Beorhtwine )
- 1009-1020 Elmer ( Ælfmær )
- 1020-1041 Brithwyn II
- 1041-1058 Ælfwald II
- 1058-10? Hermann ( also Bishop of Ramsbury, laid bishopric to Salisbury ( Sarum ) )