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Archbishops of York

Date = year of accession to archbishop's throne
* = Canonized

Paulinus*    625
Inerepiscopum    633
Chad*    664
Wilfred I*    664

Diocese divided into York and Hexham:

Bosa    678
John of Beverley*    706
Wilfred II*    714
Egbert    732
Albert    767
Eanbald I    780
Eanbald II    796
Wulfsige    c.808
Wigmund    837
Wulfhere    854
Ethelbald    900
Hrothweard    c.916
Wulfstan I    931
Osketyl    956
Edwald    971
Oswald*    971
Ealdwulf    995
Wulfstan II    1002
Aelfric Puttoc    1023
Cynesige    1051
Ealdred    1061
Thomas I of Bayeux    1070
Gerard    1100
Thomas II of Bayeux    1109
Thurstan    1119
William FitzHerbert*    1143
Henry Murdac    1147
William FitzHerbert* (again)    1153
Roger De Pont L'Eveque    1154
Geoffrey Plantagenet    1191
Simon Langton    1215
Walter De Grey    1216
Sewal De Bovill    1256
Godfrey Ludham    1258
William Langton    1265
Bonaventura    1265
Walter Giffard    1266
William Wickwane    1279
John de Romeyn    1286
Henry Newark    1298
Thomas Corbridge    1300
William Greenfield    1306
William Melton    1317
William Zouche    1342
John Thoresby    1352
Alexander Neville    1374
Thomas Arundel    1388
Robert Waldby    1396
Richard Scrope    1398
Thomas Langley    1405
Robert Hallum    1406
Henry Bowett    1407
Philip Morgan    1423
Richard Flemyng    1424
John Kemp    1425
William Booth    1452
George Neville    1465
Lawrence Booth    1476
Thomas Rotherham    1480
Thomas Savage    1501
Christopher Bainbridge    1508
Thomas Wolsey    1514
Edward Lee    1531
Robert Holgate    1545
Nicholas Heath    1555
Thomas Young    1561
Edmund Grindal    1570
Edwin Sandys    1577
John Piers    1589
Matthew Hutton    1595
Tobias Matthew    1606
George Montaigne    1628
Samuel Harsnett    1629
Richard Neile    1632
John Williams    1641
Accepted Frewen    1660
Richard Sterne    1664
John Dolben    1683
Thomas Lamplugh    1688
John Sharp    1691
William Dawes    1714
Lancelot Blackburn    1724
Thomas Herring    1743
Matthew Hutton    1747
John Gilbert    1757
Robert Hay Drummond    1761
William Markham    1777
Edward Venables Vernon-Harcourt    1808
Thomas Musgrave    1847
Charles Thomas Longley    1860
William Thomson    1863
William Connor Magee    1891
William Dalrymple Maclagan    1891
Cosmo Gordon Lang    1909
William Temple    1929
Cyril Forster Garbett    1942
Arthur Michael Ramsey    1956
Frederick Donald Coggan    1961
Stuart Yarworth Blanch    1975
John Staplyton Habgood    1983
David Hope    1995