Diocese of Lincoln
DIOCESE OF LINCOLN
Country: United Kingdom
Denomination: Anglican (until 1559 Roman Catholic)
Established: 678 as diocese of Lindsey, translated to Leicester 679, to Dorcester 886 and to Lincoln 1072.
Official blazon
Gules, two lions passant guardant in pale Or; on a chief azure the Virgin. ducally crowned sitting on a throne issuant from the chief, in her dexter arm the Infant Jesus and in her sinister hand a sceptre, all gold.
Origin/meaning
The arms were recorded at the College of Arms.
The arms first appear upon the seal of William Smith (1496-1514) before which the seals usually bore the figures of the Blessed Virgin and Holy Child. The chief is a continuation of this practice and refers to the dedication of the Cathedral to the Blessed Virgin Mary and All Saints; the lions are the arms attributed to the Norman Kings and commemorate William I under whose ecclesiastical reorganisation the See of Dorchester-on-Thames was transferred to Lincoln.
Arms of Roman Catholic Bishops
Robert Bloett (1093-1123)
Alexander (1123-1148)
Robert de Chesney (1148-1168)
Geoffrey Plantagenet (1175-1182)
Hugh of Avalon (1186-1200)
William of Blois (I) (1201-1206)
Robert Grosteste (1235-1253)
Henry Lexington (1253-1258)
Richard Gravesend (1258-1279)
Oliver Sutton (1280-1299)
John Dalderby (1300-1320)
Henry Burghersh (1320-1340)
Thomas Beck (1342-1347)
John Bokyngham (1363-1398)
Henry Beaufort (1398-1404)
Philip Repington (1404-1419)
Richard Fleming (1420-1431)
William Grey (1431-1436)
William Alnwick (1437-1450)
Marmaduke Lumley (1450-1450)
John Chadworth (1452-1472)
Thomas Rotherham (1472-1480)
John Russell (1480-1494)
William Smyth (1495-1514)
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Thomas Wolsey (1514-1514)
William Atwater (1514-1521)
John White (1554-1556)
Thomas Watson (1557-1559)
Arms of Anglican Bishops
John Longland (1521-1547)
Henry Holbeach (1547-1551)
John Taylor (1552-1554)
Nicholas Bullingham (1560-1571)
Thomas Cooper (1571-1584)
William Wickham (1584-1595)
William Chaderton (1595-1608)
William Barlow (1608-1613)
Richard Neile (1614-1617)
George Montaigne (1617-1621)
John Williams (1621-1641)
Thomas Winniffe (1641-1646)
Robert Sanderson (1660-1663)
Benjamin Lany (1663-1667)
William Fuller (1667-1675)
Thomas Barlow (1675-1691)
Thomas Tenison (1691-1695)
James Gardiner (1695-1705)
William Wake (1705-1716)
Edmund Gibson (1716-1723)
Richard Reynolds (1723-1743)
John Thomas (I) (1744-1761)
John Green (1761-1779)
Thomas Thurlow (1779-1787)
George Pretyman (1787-1820)
George Pelham (1820-1827)
John Kaye (1827-1853)
John Jackson (1853-1869)
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Christopher Wordsworth (1869-1885)
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Edward King (1885-1910)
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Edward Hicks (1910-1919)
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William Swayne (1919-1932)
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Nugent Hicks (1933-1942)
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Aylmer Skelton (1942-1946)
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Leslie Owen (1946-1947)
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Maurice Harland (1947-1956)
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Kenneth Riches (1956-1974)
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Simon Phipps (1974-1986)
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Robert Hardy (1987-2002)
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John Saxbee (2001/2-2011)
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Christopher Lowson (2011-present)
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