Bishops of Worcester From Until Incumbent Notes 680 691 Bosel Resigned the See 691 693 Oftfor 693 717 Ecgwine of Evesham Also recorded as Ecgwin, Egwin and Eegwine 718 c744 Wilfrith Also recorded as Wilfrid c743 c775 Milred Also recorded as Mildred and Hildred 775 777 Waermund 777 c780/81 Tilhere 781 c799 Heathured Also recorded as Hathored and AEthelred c799 822 Denebeorht Also recorded as Deneberht 822 c845/48 Heahbeorht Also recorded as Heahberht and Eadbert c845/48 872 Ealhhun Also recorded as Alwin 873 915 Werferth Also recorded as Waerfrith, Waerferth, Werfrith and Waerfrith 915 922 AEthelhun 922 929 Wilfrith 929 957 Koenwald Also recorded as Cenwald and Coenwald 957 959 Dunstan Previouely Abbot of Glastonbury, Translated to London; and leter to Canterbury 961 992 Oswald Held both Worcester and York (971-992) 992 1002 Ealdwulf Previously Abbot of Peterborough; held both Worcester and York (995-1002) 1002 1016 Wulfstan Translated from London; also Archbishop of York (1002-1023) 1016 1033 Leofsige 1033 1038 Beorhtheah c1038/39 1040 Lyfing (1st term) Deprived from Worcester; also Bishop of Crediton and Cornwall (1027-1046) 1040 1041 AElfric Puttoc Also Archbishop of York 1023-1041; deprived from both 1041 1046 Lyfing (2nd term) Restored to Worcester 1046 1061 Ealdred Translated from Hereford; later to York 1062 1095 Wulfstan Canonized on 14 May 1203 by Pope Innocent III Conquest to the Reformation 1096 1112 Samson 1113 1123 Theulf Nominated in 1113; consecrated in 1115 1125 1150 Simon 1151 1157 John de Pageham 1158 1160 Alured 1163 1179 Roger Also recorded as Roger of Gloucester 1180 1185 Baldwin Translated to Canterbury 1185 1190 William of Northall 1191 1193 Robert FitzRalph Previously Archdeacon of Nottingham 1193 1195 Henry de Sully Previously Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey 1196 1198 John of Coutances 1199 1212 Mauger Elected in 1199 but quashed by Pope Innocent III; later postulated to the See; consecrated in 1200 1213 1214 Randulf of Evesham (bishop-elect) Elected in December 1213, but quashed by Papal legate Niccolo de Romanis, in January 1214 1214 1216 Walter de Gray Translated to York 1216 1218 Sylvester Also recorded as Sylvester of Evesham 1218 1236 William de Blois 1227 1266 William de Cantilupe 1266 1268 Nicholas of Ely Formally Archdeacon of Ely, translated to Winchester 1268 1302 Godfrey Giffard 1302 John St German (bishop-elect) Elected in March 1302, but quashed in October 1302 1302 1307 William Gainsborough 1307 1313 Walter Reynolds Translated to Canterbury 1313 1317 Walter Maidstone 1317 1327 Thomas Cobham Previously Archbishop-elect of Canterbury in 1313 1327 Wulstan Bransford (bishop-elect) Elected bishop but was quashed; later elected in 1339 1327 1333 Adam Orieton Translated from Hereford; later to Winchester 1333 1337 Simon Montacute Translated to Ely 1337 1338 Thomas Hemenhale Translated from Norwich 1339 1349 Wulstan Bransford 1349 1353 John of Thoresby Translated from St David's; later to York 1352 1361 Reginald Brian Translated from St David's 1362 1363 John Barnet Translated to Bath & Wells; and later to Ely 1363 1368 William Whittlesey Translated from Rochester; later to Centerbury 1368 1373 William Lenn Translated from Chichester 1373 1375 Walter Lyghe (bishop-elect) Elected in 1373, but quashed in 1375 1375 1395 Henry Wakefield 1394 1401 Robert Tideman of Winchcombe Translated from Llandaff 1401 1407 Richard Clifford Previously bishop-elect of Bath & Wells; later translated to London 1407 1419 Thomas Peverel Translated from Llandaff 1419 1426 Philip Morgan Translated to Ely 1425 1433 Thomas Poulton Translated form Chichester 1433 1435 Thomas Brunce (bishop-elect) Elected bishop but never consecrated; later became bishop of Rochester 1434 1443 Thomas Bourchier Translated to Ely; and later to Canterbury 1443 1476 John Carpenter Nominated in 1443; consecrated in 1444; resigned the See in 1476; used the style "Bishop of Worcester and Westbury" 1476 1486 John Alcock Translated from Rochester, later to Ely 1486 1497 Robert Morton Nominated in 1486; consecrated in 1487 1487 1498 Giovanni de' Gigli 1498 1521 Silvestro de' Gigli 1521 1522 Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici Appointed apostolic minister in 1521 resigned 1522; Archbishop of Florence & Narbonne; elected Pope Clement VIII in 1523 1522 1535 Girolamo Ghinucci Deprived of See by Henry VIII when he broke from Rome. In 1535 he was created a cardinal During the Reformation 1535 1539 Hugh Latimer Resigned the See. Burned at the Stake outside Baliol College, Oxford in October 1555 1539 1543 John Bell 1543 1551 Nicholas Heath (1st Term) Translated from Rochester, deprived of the See 1552 1554 John Hooper Also Gloucester (1550-1553; deprived of the See 1554 1555 Nicholas Heath (2nd Term) Restored to the See; later translated to York 1555 1559 Richard Pate Deprived of the See; died in exile. Post Reformation 1559 1570 Edwin Sandys Translated to London; later to York 1570 James Calfhill Archdeacon of Colchester (1565-1570). Allegedley nominated by Queen Elizabeth I, but died before election 1571 1576 Nicholas Bullingham Translated from Lincoln 1577 1583 John Whitgift Translated to Canterbury 1584 1591 Edmund Freke Translated from Norwich 1593 1595 Richard Fletcher Translated from Bristol; later to London 1596 1597 Thomas Bilson Translated to Winchester 1597 1610 Gervase Babington Translated from Exeter 1610 1616 Henry Parry Translater from Gloucester 1617 1641 John Thornborough Translated from Bristol 1641 1646 John Pridaeux Deprived of the See when the English episcopacy was abolished by Partiament on 9 October 1646 The See was abolished during the Commonwealth and Protectorate 1660 1662 George Morley Translated to Winchester 1662 John Gauden Translated from Exeter; Died in 1662 1662 1663 John Earle Translated to Salisbury 1663 1670 Robert Skinner Translated from Bristol 1671 1675 Robert Blandford Translated from Oxford 1675 1683 James Fleetwood 1683 1689 William Thomas Translated from St David's 1689 1699 Edward Stillingfleet 1699 1717 William Lloyd Translated from Lichfield & Coventry 1717 1743 John Hough Translated from Lichfield & Coventry 1743 1759 Isaac Maddox Translated from St Asaph 1759 1774 James Johnson Translated from Gloucester 1774 1781 Brownlow North Translated from Lichfield & Coventry; later to Winchester 1781 1808 Richard Hurd Translated from Lichfield & Coventry 1808 1831 Folliott Cornewall Translated from Hereford 1831 1841 Robert Carr Translated from Chichester 1841 1860 Henry Pepys Translated from Sodor and Man 1861 1890 Henry Philpott 1890 1901 John Perowne Resigned 1902 1905 Charles Gore Translated to Birmingham; later to Oxford 1905 1918 Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs Translated from Southwark; later to Coventry 1919 1931 Earnest Pearce 1931 1841 Arthur Perowne Translated to Bradford 1941 1956 William Wilson Cash 1956 1971 Mervyn Charles-Edwards 1971 1982 Robin Woods 1982 1996 Philip Goodrich Previously Bishop of Tonbridge (1973-1982) 1997 2007 Peter Selby Previously Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames (1984-1992). Also Bishop to HM Prisone (2001-2007) 2007 David Walker Acting diocesan bishop during interregnum. Bishop of Dudley later translater to Manchester 2007 present John Inge