Diocese of Chichester


The Diocese of Selsey was founded in 681 by St Wilfrid who persuaded the Kingdom of the South Saxons to follow Christ and established the first cathedral (a building which no longer exists) at Selsey.

Bishop Martin is the 77th Bishop of Chichester and 103rd Bishop of the diocese.


Bishops of Selsey

681 S Wilfrid
Eadbeorht
Eolla
753 Sigga
Ealabeorht
Osweald
c776 Gislhere
c783 Tota
c788 Withun
c808
Æthelwulf
c820 Coenred
c840 Guthheard
Wighelm
909 Beornheah
c930
Wulfhun
c942 Ælfred
955 Daniel
Beorhthelm
Eadhelm
980 Orifbeort
1009 Ælfmaer
1032 Æthelric I
1039 Grimcytel
1047 Heca
1058 Æthelric II
1070 Stigand

Bishops of Chichester

1075 Stigand
1088 Godfrey
1088 William
1091 Ralph Luffa
1125 Seffrid I
1147 Hilary
1173 John of Greenford
1180 Seffrid II
1204 Simon Fitz Robert
1215 Richard Poore
1218 Ranulf of Wareham
1222 Ralph Nevill
1244 S Richard of Chichester (Richard Wych)
1253 John Climping
1262 Stephen Bersted
1288 Gilbert of St Leofard
1305 John Langton
1337 Robert Stratford
1362 William Lenn
1368 William Read
1385 Thomas Rushock
1389 Richard Mitford
1395 Robert Waldby
1396 Robert Reade
1418 Henry Ware
1421 John Kempe
1421 Thomas Polton
1426 John Rickingale
1429 Simon Sydenham
1438 Richard Praty
1445 Adam Moleyns
1450 Reginald Pecock
1459 John Arundel
1478 Edward Story
1503 Richard Fitz James
1508 Robert Sherburne
1536 Richard Sampson
1543 George Day
1557 John Christopherson
1559 William Barlow
1570 Richard Curtis
1586 Thomas Bickley
1596 Anthony Watson
1605 Lancelot Andrewes
1609 Samuel Harsnett
1619 George Carleton
1628 Richard Montague
1638 Brian Duppa
1642 Henry King
1670 Peter Gunning
1675 Ralph Brideoake
1679 Guy Carleton
1685 John Lake
1689 Simon Patrick
1691 Robert Grove
1696 John Williams
1709 Thomas Manningham
1722 Thomas Bowers
1724 Edward Waddington
1731 Francis Hare
1740 Matthias Mawson
1754 William Ashburnham
1798 John Buckner
1824 Robert James Carr
1831 Edward Maltby
1836 William Otter
1840 Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth
1842 Ashhurst Turner Gilbert
1870 Richard Durnford
1896 Ernest Roland Wilberforce
1908 Charles John Ridgeway
1919 Winfrid Oldfield Burrows
1929 George Kennedy Allen Bell
1958 Roger Plumpton Wilson
1974 Eric Waldram Kemp
2001 John William Hind
2012 Martin Clive Warner (77th and 103rd Bishop)