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The following Table will show the extent of the changes in the higher ministry of the Church as the various religious changes and counter changes proceeded.


Under Henry VIII.
Hugh Latimer, bishop of Worcester, resigned in 1589.Thomas Stanley, bishop of Sodor and Man, was deprived in 1545. [This was not the same Thomas Stanley who was bishop 1556 - 1570].John Bell, bishop of Worcester, resigned in 1543.
Under Edward VI.
George Day, bishop of Chichester was deprived in 1551.John Voysey, bishop of Exeter, resigned in 1551.
Edmund Bonner, bishop of London, was deprived in 1549.
William Rugg, bishop of Norwich, resigned in 1549.
Stephen Gardiner bishop of Winchester, was deprived in 1549.
Nicholas Heath, bishop of Worcester was deprived in 1551.
Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of Durham, was deprived in 1551.


Under Mary
Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canterbury, was deprived in 1555.
Robert Holgate, archbishop of York, was deprived in 1554.
William Barlow, bishop of Bath and Well; resigned in 1553.
Paul Bush, bishop of Bristol, resigned in 1554.
John Scory, bishop of Chichester, deprived in 1554.
Robert Ferrar, bishop of St. Davids, deprived in 1554.
Miles Coverdale, bishop of Exeter, deprived in 1553.
John Hooper, bishop of Gloucester and Worcester, deprived in 1553.
John Harley, bishop of Hereford, deprived in 1554.
John Taylor, bishop of Lincoln, deprived in 1554.
Nicholas Ridley, bishop of London, deprived in 1553.
John Poynet, bishop of Winchester, deprived in 1553.
John Birde, bishop of Chester, deprived in 1554.
Several Sees were vacant at the time of Mary's accession; more at the time of the accession of Elizabeth, when the reaction of the above revolution came.


Under Elizabeth
Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York, was deprived in 1560.Thomas Goldwell, bishop of St. Asaph's resigned 1559.
Gilbert Bourne bishop of Bath and Wells, was deprived in 1559.
Ralph Bayne, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, was deprived in 1559.
Henry Morgan bishop of St. David's, was deprived in 1559.
Thomas Thirlby, bishop of Ely, was deprived hi 1559.
James Turberville, bishop of Exeter, was deprived in 1559.
Thomas Watson, bishop of Lincoln, was deprived in 1559.
Edmund Bonner, bishop of London, was deprived in 1559.
David Pole, bishop of Peterborough, was deprived in 1559.
John White, bishop of Winchester, was deprived in 1559.
Richard Pate, bishop of Worcester, Was deprived in 1559.
Owen Oglethorpe, bishop of Carlisle, was deprived in 1559.
Cuthbert Scot, bishop of Chester, was deprived in 1560.
Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of Durham, was deprived in 1559.
The only bishop who held the same see undisturbed from Henry VIII to Elizabeth was Antony Kitchin, consecrated to Llandaff in 1545, died 1565. He and Thomas Stanley, who became bishop of Sodor and Man in 1556, the deprived bishops Barlow, Scory, and Coverdale, mid Hodgkins, bishop Suffragan of Bedford, took the oaths to Elizabeth.
In 1559 Matthew Parker was consecrated to the see of Canterbury by Barlow, cons. 1536; Hodgkins, cons. 1538; Scory, cons. 1551; Coverdale, cons. 1551.
The additional sees of Gloucester, Bristol, Oxford, Peterborough, Westminster, and Chester were erected by Henry VIII Gloucester end Bristol were subsequently united 1836, and there was only one Bishop of Westminster.
In 1534, Hen. VIII. 25, c. 14, an act was passed allowing the erection of Suffragan bishoprics in certain specified towns. This act has been put in force in the present century to give titles to several Suffragan bishops. (Printed in the Statutes.)