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The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers 4,516 km 2 (1,744 sq. mi.) of the counties of Powys , Staffordshire , Shropshire , Warwickshire and West Midlands .
The bishop's seat is located in the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Chad in the city of Lichfield. The diocese covers 4,516 km 2 (1,744 sq mi) of several counties: almost all of Staffordshire , northern Shropshire , a significant portion of the West Midlands , and very small portions of Warwickshire and Powys ( Wales ).
Pre- and post-Reformation Church of England bishops of the Diocese of Lichfield, with its seat at Lichfield Cathedral. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Hygeberht [a] (died after 803) was the bishop of Lichfield from 779 and archbishop of Lichfield after the elevation of Lichfield to an archdiocese some time after 787, during the reign of the powerful Mercian king Offa. Little is known of Hygeberht's background, although he was probably a native of Mercia.
William Smyth (or Smith) (c. 1460 – 2 January 1514) was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1493 to 1496 and then Bishop of Lincoln until his death. He held political offices, the most important being Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches. He became very wealthy and was a benefactor of a number of institutions.
Baines was a Hebraist, being a college lecturer in Hebrew at St John's. He went to Paris and became professor of Hebrew at the Collège de France from 1549 to 1554. [6]He was the author of the work Compendium Michlol (also with the Hebrew title, Ḳiẓẓur ha-Ḥeleḳ Rishon ha-Miklol), containing a Latin abstract of the first part of David Ḳimḥi's Hebrew grammar, and dealing ...
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He became Bishop of Lichfield in 1072, then his title changed to Bishop of Chester when the see was moved in 1075. [1] Peter had been a royal chaplain before being nominated to the see of Lichfield. Nothing else is known of his background, although presumably he was a Norman, as were most of King William I of England's episcopal appointments. [2]