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page 1Bishops of Durham
Thomas Wolsey
English political figure, archbishop of York and cardinal-priest of Santa Cecilia (1473-1530)

Justin Welby
Archbishop of Canterbury from 2013 to 2025
Joseph Butler
English bishop and philosopher (1692–1752)

Richard de Bury
Bishop of Durham; Lord Privy Seal; Lord Chancellor of England; Lord High Treasurer of England (1287-1345)
N. T. Wright
Anglican bishop
Brooke Westcott
British bishop, scholar and theologian (1825–1901)
Cuthbert Tunstall
English bishop, administrator and royal advisor
Ranulf Flambard
Bishop of Durham and royal official (c. 1060 – 1128)
Bishop of Durham
Diocesan bishop in the Church of England
Charles Longley
Archbishop of Canterbury; Archbishop of York; Bishop of Durham; Bishop of Ripon (1794-1868)
J. B. Lightfoot
British bishop and scholar of early Christianity (1828–1889)
Michael Ramsey
Archbishop of Canterbury (1904-1988)
Christopher Bainbridge
English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

William de St-Calais
Bishop of Durham
Hugh de Puiset
12th-century Bishop of Durham and Justiciar of England

Richard Foxe
bishop (1447-1528)

William Walcher
Walcher (died 14 May 1080) was the bishop of Durham from 1071, a Lotharingian and the first Prince-bishop (appointed by the King, not the Pope).
He was the first non-Englishman to hold that see and an appointee of William the Conqueror following the Harrying of the North. He was murdered in 1080, which led William to send an army into Northumbria to harry the region again.

Lawrence Booth
Lord Privy Seal; Lord Chancellor; Bishop of Durham; Archbishop of York
John Habgood
Archbishop of York; Bishop of Durham; British Anglican bishop and life peer (1927-2019)

Richard Poore
Bishop of Durham
William Dudley
Bishop of Durham

William Van Mildert
Bishop of Durham
Geoffrey Rufus
Bishop of Durham; Lord Chancellor of England (1100-1141)
Antony Bek
Bishop of Durham, Titular Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

Hensley Henson
British bishop
Lewis de Beaumont
Bishop of Durham

Thomas Langley
Bishop of Durham and Lord Chancellor of England
Robert Neville
English bishop
Philip of Poitou
Bishop of Durham; Archdeacon of Canterbury

William of St. Barbara
medieval Bishop of Durham
Handley Moule
British bishop (1841–1920)
John Cosin
English churchman
Paul Butler
Bishop of Durham; Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham; Bishop of Southampton (born 1955)
John Egerton
British bishop
David Jenkins
bishop (1925-2016)
Henry Montagu Villiers
British clergyman and bishop
Edmund of Durham
Bishop of Durham