Office Christianity
Bishop of London
Third most senior bishop of the Church of England
- Dated from 1559 CE
- Also called Anglican Bishop of London
A seat,
and those
who held it.
Holders in order
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Succession in office
Who held it, in order
A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.
- 7 holders
- 6 gaps
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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1559 CE – 1570 CE Edmund Grindal Archbishop of Canterbury -
Gap about 27 years with no holder recorded
1597 CE – 1604 CE Richard Bancroft British Archbishop of Canterbury -
Gap about 6 years with no holder recorded
1610 CE – 1611 CE George Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury -
Gap about 17 years with no holder recorded
1628 CE – 1633 CE William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury (1573-1645) -
Gap about 42 years with no holder recorded
1675 CE – 1713 CE Henry Compton Bishop of Oxford; Bishop of London -
Gap about 184 years with no holder recorded
January 1897 CE – 14 January 1901 CE Mandell Creighton English historian and clergyman (1843–1901); bishop of the Church of England from 1897 to 1901 -
Gap about 38 years with no holder recorded
1939 CE – 1945 CE Geoffrey Fisher Archbishop of Canterbury (1887-1972)
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one holder followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates.
Connections
How Bishop of London connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission 1
What this means
Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms seal
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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