full list of Coventry's Bishops, from a list displayed in the New Cathedral. It begins with the Bishops of Mercia way back in Saxon times, and takes us through the various reorganisations when Coventry and Lichfield, and later Worcester, became the dominant diocese. If you notice this list become out of date, please contact me to remind me to update it.

Coventry's Bishops

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Bishops of Mercia
656	Diuma
658	Ceollach
659	Trumhere
663	Jaruman
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Bishops of Lichfield
664	Ceadda (Chad)
672	Wynfrith
675	Seaxwulf
691	Headda
721	Ealdwine
737	Hwita
752	Hemele
765	Cuthfrith
768	Beorhtun
779	Hygebeorht	Archbishop of Lichfield after 787 to 801
802	Ealdwulf
816	Herewine
818	Aethelweard
828	Hunbeorht
836	Cynefrith
844	Tunbeorht
869	Eadbeorht
880	Wulfred
909	Wigmund
925	Aelfwine
941	Aelfgar
949	Cynesige
964	Wynsige
973	Aelfheah
1003	Godwine
1020	Leofgar
1025	Beorhtmaer
1039	Wulfsige
1053	Leofwine	First Abbot of Coventry 1043
1072	Peter	Transferred his see to Chester 1073
1096	Robert de Limesey	Transferred his see to Coventry 1102
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Bishops of Coventry
1102	Robert de Limesey
1121	Robert Peche
1129	Roger de Clinton
1149	Walter Durdent
1161	Richard Peche
1183	Gerard La Pucelle
1183	Hugh Nonant
1193	Geoffrey Muschamp
1214	William Cornhill
1224	Alexander Stavensby
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Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield
1228	Alexander Stavensby
1240	Hugh Pateshull
1245	Roger Weseham
1258	Roger Longespec
1296	Walter Langton
1322	Roger Northburgh
1360	Robert Stretton
1386	Walter Skirlaw
1386	Richard le Scrope
1399	John Burghill
1415	John Catterick
1420	William Heyworth
1447	William Booth
1452	Nicholas Close
1453	Reginald Boulers
1459	John Hales
1493	William Smith
1496	John Arundel
1503	Geoffrey Blyth
1534	Rowland Lee	d. 1543
1543	Richard Sampson	d. 1554
1554	Ralph Bayne	d. 1559. Last Roman Catholic Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
1560	Thomas Bentham	d. 1578
1580	William Overton	d. 1609
1609	George Abbot	d. 1633
1610	Richard Neile	d. 1640
1614	John Overall	d. 1619
1619	Thomas Morton	d. 1659
1632	Robert Wright	d. 1643
1644	Accepted Frewen	d. 1664
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Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry
1661	John Hacket	d. 1670
1671	Thomas Wood	d. 1692
1692	William Lloyd	d. 1717
1699	John Hough	d. 1743
1717	Edward Chandler	d. 20th July 1750
1731	Richard Smallbrooke	d. 22nd December 1749
1750	Frederick Cornwallis	d. 19 March 1783
1768	John Egerton	d. 18 June 1787
1771	Brownlow North	d. 12th July 1820
1775	Richard Hurd	d. 28th May 1808
1781	James Cornwallis	d. 20th January 1824
1824	Henry Ryder	d. 31st March 1836
1836	Samuel Butler	d. 4th December 1839
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Bishops of Worcester and Coventry
1839	Robert James Carr	d. 24th April 1841. Previously Bishop of Worcester from 1831. (Coventry seceded to Worcester in 1836.)
1841	Henry Pepys	d. 13th November 1860
1861	Henry Philpott	d. 10th January 1892
1891	John James Stewart Perowne	d. 6th November 1904
1891	Henry Bond Bowlby	d. 27th August 1894. Suffragan Bishop of Worcester and Coventry.
1894	Edmund Arbuthnott Knox	d. 16th January 1937. Suffragan Bishop of Worcester and Coventry.
1901	Charles Gore	d. 17th January 1932
1905	Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs
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Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry
1918	Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs	d. 14th April 1922
1922	Charles Lisle Carr	d. 20th May 1942
1931	Mervyn George Haigh	d. 20th May 1962
1943	Neville Vincent Gorton	d. 30th November 1955
1956	Cuthbert Killick Bardsley	d. 9th January 1991
1976	John Gibbs	d. 20th December 2007
1985	Simon Barrington-Ward	d. 11th April 2020, aged 89
1998	Colin James Bennetts	d. 10th July 2013
2008	Christopher John Cocksworth

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Coventry's Bishops

Bishops of Mercia

Bishops of Lichfield

Bishops of Coventry

Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield

Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry

Bishops of Worcester and Coventry

Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry