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{{Short description|Diocesan bishop in the Church of England}}
{{for|the Catholic bishopric in Worcester, Massachusetts|Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2015}}
{{Infobox diocese
| bishopric         = [[Worcester, England|Worcester]]
| border            = anglican
| coat              = Diocese of Worcester arms.svg
| coat_size         = 200
| coat_caption      = Arms of the Bishop of Worcester: ''[[Argent]], ten [[torteaux]] [[gules]], four, three, two and one''<ref>Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.1167</ref>
| incumbent         = ''vacant''<br />''(acting: [[Martin Gorick]], [[Bishop of Dudley]])''
<!---- Locations ---->
| province          = [[Province of Canterbury|Canterbury]]
| residence         = [[The Old Palace, Worcester]]
<!---- Information ---->
| established       = 680
| cathedral         = [[Worcester Cathedral]]
| first_incumbent   = [[Bosel]]
| diocese           = [[Anglican Diocese of Worcester|Worcester]]
<!---- Website ---->
}}
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The '''Bishop of Worcester''' is the [[Ordinary (officer)|head]] of the [[Church of England]] [[Anglican Diocese of Worcester|Diocese of Worcester]] in the [[Province of Canterbury]], [[England]]. The title can be traced back to the foundation of the diocese in the year 680.<ref>{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, ''Handbook of British Chronology'', p. 223.</ref><ref name=newadventworcester>{{Catholic|no-icon=1|prescript=|wstitle=Ancient Diocese of Worcester}}</ref> From then until the 16th century, the bishops were in [[full communion]] with the [[Catholic Church]]. During the [[English Reformation|Reformation]], the church in England broke away from the authority of the [[Pope]] and the Catholic Church, at first temporarily and later more permanently. Since the Reformation, the Bishop and Diocese of Worcester has been part of the [[Church of England]] and the [[Anglican Communion]].

The [[diocese]] covers most of the county of [[Worcestershire]], including the [[Metropolitan Borough of Dudley]] and parts of the [[City of Wolverhampton]].<ref>[http://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/ Diocese of Worcester: Homepage]. Retrieved on 10 December 2008.</ref> The [[Episcopal see]] is in the city of [[Worcester, England|Worcester]] where the [[Cathedra|bishop's throne]] is located at the [[Worcester Cathedral|Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary]].<ref>[http://www.worcestercathedral.co.uk/ Worcester Cathedral: Homepage]. Retrieved on 10 December 2008.</ref> The bishop's official residence is [[the Old Palace, Worcester]].<ref>[http://www.anglicancommunion.org/tour/diocese.cfm?Idind=233&view=alpha Provincial Directory: Worcester]. ''Anglican Communion''. Retrieved on 10 December 2008.</ref> The bishops had two residences outside the city: [[Hartlebury Castle]] near [[Kidderminster]] from the 13th century to 2007 and a palace at [[Alvechurch]] until it was pulled down in the 17th century.

From the elevations of [[Oswald of Worcester]] in 961 at Worcester and 972 at York, until 1023 the see was usually held jointly with the (then rather poorer) [[Archbishopric of York]].

==List of bishops==

=== Pre-Conquest ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;" border="1" cellpadding="2"
! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Worcester
|-valign=center
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|From
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|Until
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="30%"|Incumbent
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="45%"|Notes

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 680
|align="center"| 691
| '''[[Bosel]]'''
| Resigned the [[Episcopal see|See]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 691
|align="center"| 693
| '''[[Oftfor]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 693
|align="center"| 717
| '''[[Ecgwine of Evesham]]'''
| Also recorded as Ecgwin, Egwin and Eegwine

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 718
|align="center"| {{Circa}}744
| '''[[Wilfrith (8th century bishop)|Wilfrith]]''' ''(I.)''
| Also recorded as Wilfrid

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| {{Circa}}743
|align="center"| {{Circa}}775
| '''[[Milred]]'''
| Also recorded as Mildred and Hildred

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 775
|align="center"| 777
| '''[[Waermund (bishop of Worcester)|Waermund]]'''
| Also recorded as Wærmund

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 777
|align="center"| {{Circa}}780/81
| '''[[Tilhere]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 781
|align="center"| {{Circa}}799
| '''[[Heathured of Worcester|Heathured]]'''
| Also recorded as Hathored, AEthelred and Æthelred

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| {{Circa}}799
|align="center"| 822
| '''[[Denebeorht]]'''
| Also recorded as Deneberht

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 822
|align="center"| {{Circa}}845/48
| '''[[Heahbeorht]]'''
| Also recorded as Heahberht and Eadbert

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| {{Circa}}845/48
|align="center"| 872
| '''[[Ealhhun]]'''
| Also recorded as Alwin

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 873
|align="center"| 915
| '''[[Werferth]]'''
| Also recorded as Waerfrith, Wærferth, Werfrith and Waerfrith

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 915
|align="center"| 922
| '''[[Æthelhun]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 922
|align="center"| 929
| '''[[Wilfrith (10th century bishop)|Wilfrith]]''' ''(II.)''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| [[Floruit|fl.]]929
|align="center"| 957
| '''[[Koenwald]]'''
| Also recorded as Cenwald and Coenwald

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 957
|align="center"| 959
| '''[[Dunstan]]'''
| Previously [[Abbot]] of [[Glastonbury Abbey|Glastonbury]]; [[Translation (ecclesiastical)|translated]] to [[Bishop of London|London]]; and later to [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 961
|align="center"| 992
| '''[[Oswald of Worcester|Oswald]]'''
| Held both Worcester and [[Archbishop of York|York]] ( 971–992)

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 992
|align="center"| 1002
| '''[[Ealdwulf (archbishop of York)|Ealdwulf]]'''
| Previously Abbot of [[Peterborough Cathedral|Peterborough]]; held both Worcester and [[Archbishop of York|York]] (995–1002)

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1002
|align="center"| 1016
| '''[[Wulfstan (died 1023)|Wulfstan]]''' ''(I.)''
| Translated from [[Bishop of London|London]]; also [[Archbishop of York]] (1002–1023)

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1016
|align="center"| 1033
| '''[[Leofsige]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1033
|align="center"| 1038
| '''[[Beorhtheah]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| {{Circa|1038/39}}
|align="center"| 1040
| '''[[Lyfing of Winchester|Lyfing]]''' (1st term)
| Deprived from Worcester; also Bishop of [[Bishop of Crediton|Crediton]] and [[Bishop of Cornwall|Cornwall]] (1027–1046)

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1040
|align="center"| 1041
| '''[[Ælfric Puttoc]]'''
| Also [[Archbishop of York]], 1023–1041; deprived from both

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1041
|align="center"| 1046
| '''[[Lyfing of Winchester|Lyfing]]''' (2nd term)
| Restored to Worcester

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1046
|align="center"| 1061
| '''[[Ealdred (archbishop of York)|Ealdred]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Hereford|Hereford]]; later to [[Archbishop of York|York]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1062
|align="center"| 1095
| '''[[Wulfstan (died 1095)|Wulfstan]]''' ''(II.)''
| [[Canonization|Canonized]] on 14 May 1203 by [[Pope Innocent III]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
| align=center colspan="4"| Source(s):<ref name="newadventworcester"/><ref name=crockfordsweb480>{{cite web |url=http://www.crockford.org.uk/listing.asp?id=480 |title=Historical successions: Worcester |work=Crockford's Clerical Directory |access-date=14 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, ''Handbook of British Chronology'', pp. 223–224, and 278.</ref>
|}

=== Conquest to Reformation ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;" border="1" cellpadding="2"
! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Worcester
|-valign=center
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|From
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|Until
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="30%"|Incumbent
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="45%"|Notes

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1096
|align="center"| 1112
| '''[[Samson (bishop of Worcester)|Samson]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1113
|align="center"| 1123
| '''[[Theulf]]'''
| Nominated in 1113; consecrated in 1115

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1125
|align="center"| 1150
| '''[[Simon of Worcester|Simon]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1151
|align="center"| 1157
| '''[[John de Pageham]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1158
|align="center"| 1160
| '''[[Alured]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1163
|align="center"| 1179
| '''[[Roger of Worcester|Roger]]'''
| Also recorded as Roger of Gloucester

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1180
|align="center"| 1185
| '''[[Baldwin of Exeter|Baldwin]]'''
| [[Translation (ecclesiastical)|Translated]] to [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1185
|align="center"| 1190
| '''[[William of Northall]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1191
|align="center"| 1193
| '''[[Robert FitzRalph]]'''
| Previously [[Archdeacon of Nottingham]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1193
|align="center"| 1195
| '''[[Henry de Sully (died 1195)|Henry de Sully]]'''
| Previously [[Abbot]] of [[Glastonbury Abbey]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1196
|align="center"| 1198
| '''[[John of Coutances]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1199
|align="center"| 1212
| '''[[Mauger of Worcester|Mauger]]'''
| Elected in 1199, but quashed by [[Pope Innocent III]]; later postulated to the See; consecrated in 1200

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| ''1213''
|align="center"| ''1214''
| ''[[Randulf of Evesham]] (bishop-elect)''
| Elected in December 1213, but quashed by the [[Papal legate]], [[Niccolò de Romanis]], in January 1214

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1214
|align="center"| 1216
| '''[[Walter de Gray]]'''
| Translated to [[Archbishop of York|York]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1216
|align="center"| 1218
| '''[[Sylvester of Worcester|Sylvester]]'''
| Also recorded as Sylvester of Evesham

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1218
|align="center"| 1236
| '''[[William de Blois (bishop of Worcester)|William de Blois]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1237
|align="center"| 1266
| '''[[Walter de Cantilupe]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1266
|align="center"| 1268
| '''[[Nicholas of Ely]]'''
| Formerly [[Archdeacon of Ely]];translated to [[Bishop of Winchester|Winchester]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1268
|align="center"| 1302
| '''[[Godfrey Giffard]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| colspan=2 align=center|''1302'' 
| ''[[John St German]] (bishop-elect)''
| Elected in March 1302, but quashed in October 1302

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1302
|align="center"| 1307
| '''[[William Gainsborough]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1307
|align="center"| 1313
| '''[[Walter Reynolds]]'''
| Translated to [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1313
|align="center"| 1317
| '''[[Walter Maidstone]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1317
|align="center"| 1327
| '''[[Thomas Cobham]]'''
| Previously [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Archbishop-elect of Canterbury]] in 1313

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
| colspan=2 align=center|''1327'' 
| ''[[Wulstan Bransford]] (bishop-elect)''
| Elected bishop but was quashed; later elected in 1339

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1327
|align="center"| 1333
| '''[[Adam Orleton]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Hereford|Hereford]]; later to [[Bishop of Winchester|Winchester]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1333
|align="center"| 1337
| '''[[Simon Montacute]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Ely|Ely]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1337
|align="center"| 1338
| '''[[Thomas Hemenhale]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Norwich|Norwich]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1339
|align="center"| 1349
| '''[[Wulstan Bransford]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1349
|align="center"| 1353
| '''[[John of Thoresby]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of St David's|St David's]]; later to [[Archbishop of York|York]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1352
|align="center"| 1361
| '''[[Reginald Brian]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of St David's|St David's]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1362
|align="center"| 1363
| '''[[John Barnet]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Bath and Wells|Bath and Wells]]; and later to [[Bishop of Ely|Ely]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1363
|align="center"| 1368
| '''[[William Whittlesey]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Rochester|Rochester]]; later to [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1368
|align="center"| 1373
| '''[[William Lenn]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Chichester|Chichester]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| ''1373''
|align="center"| ''1375''
| ''[[Walter Lyghe]] (bishop-elect)''
| Elected in 1373, but quashed in 1375

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1375
|align="center"| 1395
| '''[[Henry Wakefield (bishop of Worcester)|Henry Wakefield]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1394
|align="center"| 1401
| '''[[Robert Tideman of Winchcombe]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Llandaff|Llandaff]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1401
|align="center"| 1407
| '''[[Richard Clifford]]'''
| Previously [[Bishop of Bath and Wells|Bishop-elect of Bath and Wells]]; later translated to [[Bishop of London|London]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1407
|align="center"| 1419
| '''[[Thomas Peverel]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Llandaff|Llandaff]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1419
|align="center"| 1426
| '''[[Philip Morgan (bishop)|Philip Morgan]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Ely|Ely]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1425
|align="center"| 1433
| '''[[Thomas Polton|Thomas Poulton]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Chichester|Chichester]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| ''1433''
|align="center"| ''1435''
| ''[[Thomas Brunce]] (bishop-elect)''
| Elected bishop, but never consecrated; later became [[Bishop of Rochester]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1434
|align="center"| 1443
| '''[[Thomas Bourchier (bishop)|Thomas Bourchier]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Ely|Ely]]; and later to [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1443
|align="center"| 1476
| '''[[John Carpenter (bishop of Worcester)|John Carpenter]]'''
| Nominated in 1443; consecrated in 1444; resigned the [[Episcopal see|See]] in 1476; apparently used the style ''"Bishop of Worcester and Westbury"''<ref>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4729 Oxford DNB – Carpenter, John] (Accessed 20 February 2014)</ref><ref>[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40286 A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2. College: The College of Westbury-on-Trym] (Accessed 20 February 2014)</ref>

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1476
|align="center"| 1486
| '''[[John Alcock (bishop)|John Alcock]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Rochester|Rochester]]; later to [[Bishop of Ely|Ely]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1486
|align="center"| 1497
| '''[[Robert Morton (bishop)|Robert Morton]]'''
| Nominated in 1486; consecrated in 1487

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1497
|align="center"| 1498
| '''[[Giovanni de' Gigli]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1498
|align="center"| 1521
| '''[[Silvestro de' Gigli]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| ''1521''
|align="center"| ''1522''
| [[File:Raffaello, ritratto di papa leone X tra i cardinali luigi de' rossi e giulio de' medici, 1518, 02.jpg|60px]] ''[[Pope Clement VII|Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici]]''
| Appointed [[apostolic administrator]] of the [[Episcopal see|See]] of Worcester in 1521 and resigned in 1522; also [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florence|Archbishop of Florence]] and [[Ancient Diocese of Narbonne|Narbonne]] and [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Eger|Bishop of Eger]]; he was elected as [[Pope Clement VII]] in 1523.<ref>[http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1513.htm#Medici Cardinal Giulio de' Medici] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621173723/http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1513.htm#Medici |date=21 June 2009 }}. ''The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church''. Retrieved on 10 December 2008.</ref>

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1522
|align="center"| 1535
| [[File:1535 HIERONYMUS DE GINUTIIS - GHINUCCI GIROLAMO.JPG|60px]] '''[[Girolamo Ghinucci]]'''
| Deprived of the See by [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] when the king broke with Rome; later in 1535 Ghinucci was created a [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]].<ref>[http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1535.htm#Ghinucci Cardinal Girolamo Ghinucci] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729115805/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1535.htm#Ghinucci |date=29 July 2012 }}. ''The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church''. Retrieved on 10 December 2008.</ref>

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
| align=center colspan="4"| Source(s):<ref name="newadventworcester"/><ref name="crockfordsweb480"/><ref>{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, ''Handbook of British Chronology'', pp. 278–280.</ref><ref name=fasti1066vol2worcbps>{{Harvnb|Greenway|1971}}, "[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33881 Bishops of Worcester]", ''Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 2'', pp. 99–102.</ref><ref name=fasti1300vol4worcbps>{{Harvnb|Jones|1962}}, "[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=32732 Bishops of Worcester]", ''Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541: Volume 4'', pp.  55–58.</ref>
|}

=== During the Reformation ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;" border="1" cellpadding="2"
! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Worcester
|-valign=center
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|From
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|Until
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="30%"|Incumbent
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="45%"|Notes

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1535
|align="center"| 1539
| [[File:Hugh Latimer from NPG.jpg|60px]] '''[[Hugh Latimer]]'''
| Resigned the [[Episcopal see|See]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1539
|align="center"| 1543
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[John Bell (bishop of Worcester)|John Bell]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1543
|align="center"| 1551
| [[File:Nicholas Heath by Hans Eworth.jpg|60px]] '''[[Nicholas Heath]]''' (1st term)
| [[Translation (ecclesiastical)|Translated]] from [[Bishop of Rochester|Rochester]]; deprived of the See

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1552
|align="center"| 1554
| [[File:John Hooper by Henry Bryan Hall after James Warren Childe cropped.jpg|60px]] '''[[John Hooper (bishop)|John Hooper]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Gloucester|Gloucester]], 20 May 1552 when Gloucester was reunited to Worcester; called "Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester" and "of Gloucester and Worcester"; deprived of the See.<ref>{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae|period=1541–1857|volume=7|pages=105–109}}</ref><ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=13706|title=Hooper, John}}</ref><ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Hooper, John | volume= 13 | pages = 675&ndash;676 |last1= Pollard |first1= Albert Frederick }}</ref><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hooper, John|volume=27}}</ref>

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1554
|align="center"| 1555
| [[File:Nicholas Heath by Hans Eworth.jpg|60px]] '''[[Nicholas Heath]]''' (2nd term)
| Restored to the See; later translated to [[Archbishop of York|York]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1555
|align="center"| 1559
| [[File:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Richard Pate (bishop)|Richard Pate]]'''
| Deprived of the See.

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
| align=center colspan="4"| Source(s):<ref name="newadventworcester"/><ref name="crockfordsweb480"/><ref name="fasti1300vol4worcbps"/><ref>{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, ''Handbook of British Chronology'', p. 280.</ref><ref name=fasti1541vol7worcbps>{{Harvnb|Horn |1996}}, "[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35280 Bishops of Worcester]", ''Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 7'', pp. 105–109.</ref>
|}

=== Post-Reformation ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;" border="1" cellpadding="2"
! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;"|Bishops of Worcester
|-valign=center
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|From
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="10%"|Until
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="30%"|Incumbent
! style="background-color:#D4B1BB" width="45%"|Notes

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1559
|align="center"| 1570
| [[File:Edwin Sandys from NPG.jpg|60px]] '''[[Edwin Sandys (bishop)|Edwin Sandys]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of London|London]]; and later to [[Archbishop of York|York]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| colspan=2 align="center"| ''1570 (designate)''
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] ''[[James Calfhill]]''
| [[Archdeacon of Colchester]] (1565–1570). Allegedly nominated by [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]], but died before election.

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1571
|align="center"| 1576
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Nicholas Bullingham]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Lincoln|Lincoln]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1577
|align="center"| 1583
| [[File:Bp John Whitgift.jpg|60px]] '''[[John Whitgift]]'''
| Translated to [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1584
|align="center"| 1591
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Edmund Freke]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Norwich|Norwich]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1593
|align="center"| 1595
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Richard Fletcher (bishop)|Richard Fletcher]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Bristol|Bristol]]; later to [[Bishop of London|London]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1596
|align="center"| 1597
| [[File:Bp Thomas Bilson.jpg|60px]] '''[[Thomas Bilson]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Winchester|Winchester]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1597
|align="center"| 1610
| [[File:Bishop Gervase Babington by Simon De Passe.jpg|60px]] '''[[Gervase Babington]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Exeter|Exeter]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1610
|align="center"| 1616
| [[File:Marcus Gheeraerts I (Attr) - Portrait of Henry Parry, Bishop of Worcester.jpeg|60px]] '''[[Henry Parry (bishop of Worcester)|Henry Parry]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Gloucester|Gloucester]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1617
|align="center"| 1641
| [[File:John Thornborough from NPG (crop).jpg|60px]] '''[[John Thornborough]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Bristol|Bristol]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1641
|align="center"| 1646
| [[File:JohnPrideaux.jpg|60px]] '''[[John Prideaux]]'''
| Deprived of the see when the English episcopacy was abolished by Parliament on 9 October 1646.

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align=center| 1646 
|align=center| 1660
|colspan=2| The see was abolished during the [[Commonwealth of England|Commonwealth]] and the [[The Protectorate|Protectorate]].<ref>[http://bcw-project.org/church-and-state/sects-and-factions/episcopalians Episcopacy]. ''British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638–60''. Retrieved on 25 April 2021.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=King |first=Peter |date=July 1968 |title=The Episcopate during the Civil Wars, 1642–1649 |journal=[[The English Historical Review]]  |volume= 83 |issue= 328 |pages=523–537 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ehr/lxxxiii.cccxxviii.523|jstor=564164 }}</ref>

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1660
|align="center"| 1662
| [[File:GeorgeMorley.jpg|60px]] '''[[George Morley (bishop)|George Morley]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Winchester|Winchester]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| colspan=2 align=center|1662 
| [[File:JohnGauden.jpg|60px]] '''[[John Gauden]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Exeter|Exeter]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1662
|align="center"| 1663
| [[File:John Earle from NPG.jpg|60px]] '''[[John Earle (bishop)|John Earle]]'''
| Translated to [[Bishop of Salisbury|Salisbury]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1663
|align="center"| 1670
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Robert Skinner (bishop)|Robert Skinner]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Bristol|Bristol]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1671
|align="center"| 1675
| [[File:Bp Walter Blandford.jpg|60px]] '''[[Walter Blandford]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Oxford|Oxford]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1675
|align="center"| 1683
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[James Fleetwood]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1683
|align="center"| 1689
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[William Thomas (bishop of Worcester)|William Thomas]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of St David's|St David's]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1689
|align="center"| 1699
| [[File:Edward Stillingfleet by Mary Beale.jpg|60px]] '''[[Edward Stillingfleet]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1699
|align="center"| 1717
| [[File:WilliamLloydBpOfStAsaph.jpg|60px]] '''[[William Lloyd (bishop of Worcester)|William Lloyd]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Lichfield|Lichfield and Coventry]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1717
|align="center"| 1743
| [[File:John Hough portrait.jpg|60px]] '''[[John Hough (bishop)|John Hough]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Lichfield|Lichfield and Coventry]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1743
|align="center"| 1759
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Isaac Maddox]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of St Asaph|St Asaph]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1759
|align="center"| 1774
| [[Image:Bp James Johnson, Hartlebury.jpg|60px]] '''[[James Johnson (bishop of Worcester)|James Johnson]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Gloucester|Gloucester]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1774
|align="center"| 1781
| [[File:Bp Brownlow North by Henry Howard.jpg|60px]] '''[[Brownlow North]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Lichfield|Lichfield and Coventry]]; later to [[Bishop of Winchester|Winchester]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1781
|align="center"| 1808
| [[File:Richard-Hurd,-Bishop-of-Worcester.jpg|60px]] '''[[Richard Hurd (bishop)|Richard Hurd]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Lichfield|Lichfield and Coventry]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1808
|align="center"| 1831
| [[Image:Folliott Herbert Walker Cornewall by William Owen.jpg|60px]] '''[[Folliott Cornewall]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Hereford|Hereford]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1831
|align="center"| 1841
| [[Image:Robert James Carr.jpg|60px]] '''[[Robert Carr (bishop)|Robert Carr]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Chichester|Chichester]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1841
|align="center"| 1860
| [[Image:Henry Pepys NGS.jpg|60px]] '''[[Henry Pepys]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Sodor and Man|Sodor and Man]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1861
|align="center"| 1890
| [[Image:Henry Philpott.jpg|60px]] '''[[Henry Philpott (bishop)|Henry Philpott]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1890
|align="center"| 1901
| [[File:Bp John Perowne.jpg|60px]] '''[[John Perowne]]'''
| Resigned

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1902
|align="center"| 1905
| [[File:Charles Gore NPG.jpg|60px]] '''[[Charles Gore]]'''<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27389|date=20 December 1901|page=8979}}</ref>
| Translated to [[Bishop of Birmingham|Birmingham]]; and later to [[Bishop of Oxford|Oxford]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1905
|align="center"| 1918
| [[File:Bishop-Huyshe.jpg|60px]] '''[[Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Southwark (Anglican)|Southwark]]; later to [[Bishop of Coventry|Coventry]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1919
|align="center"| 1931
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Ernest Pearce]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1931
|align="center"| 1941
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Arthur Perowne]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Bradford (diocese)|Bradford]]

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1941
|align="center"| 1955
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[William Wilson Cash]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1956
|align="center"| 1971
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Mervyn Charles-Edwards]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1971
|align="center"| 1981
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Robin Woods]]'''
|
|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| 1982
|align="center"| 1996
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Philip Goodrich]]''' <ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/01/29/db02.xml The Rt Revd Philip Goodrich]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}. ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', first published: 22 November 2001.</ref>
| Previously Bishop of [[Bishop of Tonbridge|Tonbridge]] (1973–1982)

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 1997
|align="center"| 2007
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] '''[[Peter Selby]]'''
| Previously [[Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames]] (1984–1992). Also [[Bishop to HM Prisons]] (2001–2007)

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|colspan="2" align="center"| ''2007 (acting)''
| [[File:NWHLRC unveiling (David Walker cropped).jpg|60px]] ''[[David Walker (Bishop of Manchester)|David Walker]]''
| [[Bishop of Dudley]]. Episcopal commissary (acting diocesan bishop) during interregnum.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/7086461.stm | title=Trust chaplaincy service secured| date=2007-11-09}}</ref>

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
|align="center"| 2007
|align="center"| 2024
| [[File:Official portrait of The Lord Bishop of Worcester crop 2.jpg|60px]] '''[[John Inge]]'''
| Retired 9 October 2024.<ref>{{cite web |website=Diocese of Worcester |title=Bishop John to retire |date=2 May 2024 |url=https://cofe-worcester.org.uk/news/bishop-john-to-retire.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601083154/https://cofe-worcester.org.uk/news/bishop-john-to-retire.php |archive-date=1 June 2024 |access-date=7 June 2024 }}</ref>

|-valign=top bgcolor="white"
|align="center"| ''2024''
|align="center"| ''acting''
| [[Image:No image.svg|60px]] ''[[Martin Gorick]], [[Bishop of Dudley]]''
| Acting diocesan bishop during vacancy in See, since 9 October 2024.<ref>{{cite web |date=9 March 2023 |title=Bishop Martin becomes Acting Bishop of Worcester |url=https://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/news/bishop-martin-becomes-acting-bishop-of-worcester.php |access-date=13 October 2024 |website=The Diocese of Worcester |archive-url= |archive-date= }}</ref>

|-valign=top bgcolor="#F7F0F2"
| align=center colspan="4"| Source(s):<ref name="crockfordsweb480"/><ref name="fasti1541vol7worcbps"/><ref>{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, ''Handbook of British Chronology'', pp. 280–281.</ref>
|}

==Assistant bishops==
Among those who have served as [[assistant bishop]]s of the diocese are:
*1936{{snd}}1944 (d.): [[Ridley Duppuy]], [[Canon Residentiary]] of [[Worcester Cathedral]], [[Archdeacon of Worcester]] (from 1938), Vice-[[Dean of Worcester]] (from 1940) and former [[Bishop of Victoria]]<ref>{{Who's Who |id=U224932 |title=Duppuy, Charles Ridley}}</ref>
*1946{{snd}}January 1953 (ret.): [[Bertram Lasbrey]], Rector of St&nbsp;Andrew's &amp;c. [[Worcester, England|Worcester]] and former [[Bishop on the Niger]]<ref>{{Who's Who |id=U156569 |title=Lasbrey, Bertram}}</ref>
*1953{{snd}}1965 (ret.): [[Cyril Stuart]], Rector of St&nbsp;Andrew's &amp;c. Worcester (until 1965), Canon of Worcester thereafter, and former [[Bishop of Uganda]]<ref>{{Who's Who |id=U169581 |title=Stuart, Cyril Edgar}}</ref>
*1968{{snd}}1991 (ret.): [[Nicholas Allenby]], former [[Bishop of Kuching]]<ref>{{Who's Who |id=U170811 |title=Allenby, David Howard Nicholas}}</ref>
*1989{{snd}}2008 (d.): [[Kenneth Woollcombe]], assistant priest in [[Upton Snodsbury]] (1989–?), former [[Bishop of Oxford]] and [[Assistant Bishop of London]] for Westminster<ref>{{Church Times | title = Woollcombes to leave London | archive = 1989_04_21_003 | issue = 6584 | date = 21 April 1989 | page = 3 | accessed = 15 February 2021 }}</ref>

== References ==
=== Footnotes ===
{{Reflist}}

=== Bibliography ===
{{refbegin}}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Fryde |editor1-first=E. B. |editor2-last=Greenway |editor2-first=D. E. |editor3-last=Porter |editor3-first=S. |editor4-last=Roy |editor4-first=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd, reprinted 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-521-56350-5 }}
* {{cite book |last=Greenway |first=D. E. |year=1971 |title=Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces) |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=123 |series=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300 |volume=2 |publisher=British History Online }}
* {{cite book |last1=Horn |first1=J. M. |year=1996 |title=Ely, Norwich, Westminster and Worcester Dioceses |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=148 |series=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857 |volume=7 |publisher=British History Online }}
* {{cite book |last=Jones |first=B. |year=1962 |title=Monastic Cathedrals (Southern Province) |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=133 |series=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541 |volume=4 |publisher=British History Online }}
{{refend}}

==External links==
*[http://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/ Diocese of Worcester]

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