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The Bishops of Worcester reside in Hartlebury Castle in Worcestershire. The first bishop was appointed in 680.

• Bosel 680
• Oftfor 691
• St. Eegwine 693
• Wilfrith I 718
• Mildred about 743
• Waermund 775
• Tilhere 777
• Heathured (AEthelred) 781
• Denebeorht 798
• Heahbeorht (Eadbert) 822
• Ealhhun (Alwin) about 845
• Waerfrith 873
• AEthelhun 915
• Wilfrith II 922
• Coenweld 929
• St. Dunstan 957
• St. Oswald 961
• Ealdwulf 992
• Wulfstan 1003
• Leofsige 1016
• Beorhtheah 1033
• Lyfing 1038
• AElfric Puttoc 1040
• Lyfing (restored) 1041
• Ealdred 1046
• St. Wulfstan II 1062
• Samson 1096
• Theulf 1113
• Simon 1125
• John de Pageham 1151
• Alured 1158
• Roger 1163
• Baldwin 1180
• William de Narhale 1185
• Robert Fitz-Ralph 1191
• Henry de Soilli 1193
• John de Constantiis 1195
• Mauger 1198
• Walter de Grey 1214
• Silvester de Evesham 1216
• William de Blois 1218
• Walter de Cantelupe 1237
• Nicholas of Ely 1266
• Godfrey de Giffard 1268
• William de Gainsborough 1301
• Walter Reynold 1307
• Walter de Maydenston 1313
• Thomas Cobham 1317
• Adam de Orlton 1327
• Simon de Montecute 1333
• Thomas Hemenhale 1337
• Wolstan de Braunsford 1339
• John de Thoresby 1349
• Reginald Brian 1352
• John Barnet 1362
• William Wittlesey 1363
• William Lynn 1368
• Henry Wakefield 1375
• Tideman de Winchcomb 1394
• Richard Clifford 1401
• Thomas Peverell 1407
• Philip Morgan 1419
• Thomas Poulton 1425
• Thomas Bourchier 1434
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• Silvestro De Gigli 1498-1521
• Geronimo De Ghinucci 1523-1533
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• Edwin Sandys 1559-1571
• Nicholas Bullingham, 1571-1576
• John Whitgift, 1577-1583
• Edmund Freke , 1584-1591
• Richard Fletcher, 1593-1595
• Thomas Bilson , 1596-1597
• Gervase Babington , 1597-1610