ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY FROM AUGUSTINE TO LANFRANC Consecrated or translated

EARLY ENGLISH DIOCESES

When Christianity was restored in Britain by the Roman Mission of St. Augustine and his followers, and by the preaching of the Scots and other foreign missionaries, the ecclesiastical followed the political or tribal divisions of the people.
When Bede closed his history, A.D. 731, the diocesan divisions were as follows :-

Canterbury, the metropolitan see from the consecration of Theodore, 668, including in its diocese East Kent, with portions of West Kent, of Surrey, and of Sussex.
Rochester, including most of West Kent.
London, including the East Saxons.
Dunwich, including the southern East Angles.
Elmham, including the northern East Angles.
Winchester, including the eastern part of Wessex, Hampshire, Surrey, and the Isle of Wight. Sherborne, including the rest of Wessex.
Lichfield, including North-Wet Mercia,
Hereford, including the Magesaetas.
Worcester, including the Hwiccas.
Sidnacester, including the people of Lindsey (Lincolnshire).
Dorchester (on the Thames), shortly after removed to Leicester, including South-East Mercia. Selsey, including Sussex.
York, which became an archiepiscopal see in 735, including Deira and part of the Southumbrians.
Lindisfarne, including Northern Bernicia.
Hexham, including Southern Bernicia.
Whiterne., including the Picts of Galloway.
The name of one bishop of Ripon is preserved, and at the end of the seventh century Lincolnshire was attached to his diocese for a time.
The Welsh bishoprics in West Wales , North Wales, and Strathclyde are of uncertain extent In 787, during the reign of Offa, his power was marked by Lichfield, the chief Mercian bishopric becoming an arch-bishopric.
The Danish invasions swept any the ecclesiastical organization in much of the country. Dunwich, Hexham, Sidnacester, Whiterne, disappear as separate sees.
In London, Elmham, Lichfield, and York the succession of the bishops becomes irregular. Leicester is shifted back to Dorchester on the Thames;
Lindisfarne first to Chester-le-street and finally to Durhsm.
Three new sees are founded by Alfred and Edward at Ramsbury or Sonning or Wilton, for Wiltshire and Berkshire, at Wells for Somersetshire, at Crediton for Devonshire.
The Cornish bishopric is at St. Germain's or St. Petroc's.
In A.D.1050, according to the continental practice of placing the bishop's see in a large town, Exeter was made the see for the united dioceses of Crediton and Cornwall.
In 1075, the Council of London sanctioned a similar change in other sees. Consequently in the next few years -
The see at Sherborne which had been reunited to Ramsbury after the Norman Conquest, was moved to Old Sarum, in 1221 to the modern Salisbury.
The see at Dorchester on the Thames was moved to Lincoln.
The see at Lichfield was moved first to Chester, then to Coventry.
The see at Wells was moved to Bath.
The see at Selsey was moved to Chichester.
The see at Elmham was moved to Thetford, and then to Norwich.
The see of Ely was founded in 1108, for a diocese taken out of Lincoln.
The see of Carlisle in 1133 for the country of Cumberland, which William Rufus conquered. The number and position of the English sees remained unaltered from the reign of Henry I. to that of Henry VIII., with the exception of the migration from Old Sarum to Salisbury.
The Welsh dioceses of St. David's, Llandaff, Bangor, and St. Asaph, did not exactly correspond to any of the fluctuating political divisions of Wales. They finally acknowledged the metropolitan authority of Canterbury in the archiepiscopate of Anselm, 1093 - 1109.