EPISCOPAL SUCCESSION
IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

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Revised and augmented version (in experimental form) of material in Simon Keynes, 'Episcopal Succession in Anglo-Saxon England', Handbook of British Chronology, 3rd ed., ed. E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter, and I. Roy, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 2 (London, 1986), pp. 209-24.

ANGLO-SAXON EPISCOPAL LISTS

For general remarks on the nature of episcopal lists, and on the relationship between the extant sets of lists, go here.

EPISCOPAL SUCCESSION IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

For lists of the bishops of particular sees, with brief notes, follow the links on the table below. [Layout is experimental; to be completed as and when time allows. The provisional lists published in 1986 were drawn up before any systematic analysis had been undertaken of episcopal attestations in charters (except for the periods 850-950, and 978-1016).]

• KENT
  • Canterbury
  • Rochester
• THE EAST ANGLES
  • The East Angles (at Dunwich)
    • Dunwich
    • Elmham
• THE HWICCE AND THE MAGONSÆTAN
  • Worcester
  • Hereford (initially perhaps elsewere)
• THE MERCIANS, THE MIDDLE ANGLES, AND LINDSEY
  • The Mercians and the Middle Angles
    • Lichfield (Mercians)
    • Leicester/Dorchester-on-Thames (Middle Angles)
  • Lindsey
• THE EAST SAXONS
  • London
• THE SOUTH SAXONS
  • Selsey
• THE WEST SAXONS
  • The West Saxons (at Dorchester-on-Thames or Winchester)
    • Sherborne (Dorset), from c. 705
      • Wells (Somerset), from c. 909
      • Crediton/Exeter (Devon), from c. 909
    • Winchester (Hampshire), from c. 705
      • Ramsbury/Wilton (Wiltshire + Berkshire), from c. 909
  • Cornwall

• THE NORTHUMBRIANS
  • The Northumbrians (in the 7th century: at York, Lindisfarne, Hexham, Ripon)
    • York, from Wilfrid II
    • Hexham
    • Lindisfarne/Chester-Le-Street/Durham
  • Whithorn

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