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The archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the archbishop of Canterbury.The archbishop is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of York and the metropolitan bishop of the province of York, which covers the northern regions of England (north of the Trent) as well as the Isle of Man.
Stephen Geoffrey Cottrell SCP (/ ˈ k ɒ t r əl /; born 31 August 1958) is a Church of England bishop. Since 9 July 2020, he has been the Archbishop of York and Primate of England; the second-most senior bishop of the church and the most senior in northern England. [1]
Thurstan [a] or Turstin of Bayeux (c. 1070 – 6 February 1140) was a medieval Archbishop of York, the son of a priest.He served kings William II and Henry I of England before his election to the see of York in 1114.
Robert Holgate (1481/1482 – 1555) was Bishop of Llandaff from 1537 and then Archbishop of York (from 1545 to 1554). He recognised Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. Holgate was a canon of the Gilbertine Order, and was probably educated at the Gilbertine house (St Edmund's Priory) at Cambridge.
Richard le Scrope (c. 1350 – 8 June 1405) was an English cleric who served as Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and Archbishop of York and was executed in 1405 for his participation in the Northern Rising against King Henry IV.
In 1529 he was made chancellor of the church of Salisbury, and in 1530 received a prebend at York, and a prebend of the royal chapel, and was incorporated D.D. at Oxford. Lee made himself useful to the king at home in the matter of the divorce, and on 1 June 1531 was one of a deputation which was sent to the queen to persuade her to forgo her ...
Venables-Vernon was nominated on 26 November 1807 as archbishop of York, [2] and was confirmed in St. James's Church, Westminster on 19 January 1808. [3] In the same year, on 20 January, he was gazetted a privy councillor , and made Lord High Almoner to George III , an office which he also held under Queen Victoria 's reign.
Cynesige [a] (died 22 December 1060) was a medieval English Archbishop of York between 1051 and 1060. Prior to his appointment to York, he was a royal clerk and perhaps a monk at Peterborough. [2] As archbishop, he built and adorned his cathedral as well as other churches, and was active in consecrating bishops. After his death in 1060, the ...