The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England. The present diocese covers...
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small area of Dorset. The Episcopal seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells is located in the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in the city of Wells in Somerset...
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contention between churchmen in Bath and Wells the seat of the Diocese of Bath and Wells was later consolidated at Wells Cathedral. The Benedictine community...
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British Church of England bishop and epidemiologist. Since June 2022, he has been the Bishop of Bath and Wells; he was enthroned and started active ministry...
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John Still (category Bishops of Bath and Wells)
was Master of two Cambridge colleges and then, from 1593, Bishop of Bath and Wells. He enjoyed considerable fame as an English preacher and disputant....
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Thomas Beckington (redirect from Thomas of Beckington)
was the Bishop of Bath and Wells and King's Secretary in medieval England under Henry VI. Beckington was born at Beckington in Somerset, and was educated...
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was Bishop of Bath and Wells and a translator of the King James Version of The Bible. Arthur Lake was born in Southampton in September 1569 the son of Almeric...
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Thomas Ken (redirect from Bishop Ken)
1684, and a few months later, upon a vacancy occurring in the see of Bath and Wells, Ken was appointed bishop. It is said that, upon the occurrence of the...
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Kennion, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and Handley Moule, Bishop of Durham 1937: Basil Wynne Willson, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham...
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the bishop of Bath and Wells and the mother church of the diocese of Bath and Wells. There are daily Church of England services in the building, and in...
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refer to: Arthur Lake (bishop) (1569–1626), English bishop of Bath and Wells Arthur Lake (MP) (1598–1633), English member of House of Commons from 1624 to...
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Lord Privy Seal (redirect from Keeper of the Privy Seal (United Kingdom))
1492; Bishop of Bath and Wells 1492–1494; Bishop of Durham 1494–1501; Bishop of Winchester from 1501 Concurrently held the offices of Chancellor of the...
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The Bishop's Palace is the residence of the bishop of Bath and Wells in Wells, Somerset, England. The palace is adjacent to Wells Cathedral and has been...
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Pope Martin V made him Bishop of Bath and Wells, and he was consecrated on 27 May 1425. Pope Eugene IV made him Archbishop of Canterbury in May 1443,...
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served as Bishop of St David's from 1766 to 1774 and Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1774 to 1802. Born in Postwick, Norfolk, England, Moss was son of William...
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Secretary of State to Henry VIII of England, and Bishop of Bath and Wells. Knight was sent to Rome in 1527 to try to get Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon...
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Roger of Salisbury (died 1247) was a Bishop of Bath and Wells (previously Bath). Roger was a canon of Salisbury by 3 July 1223 and was a theology lecturer...
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Ronald Lacey (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
Arnold Ernst Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and the Bishop of Bath and Wells in Blackadder II (1986). Lacey was born and grew up in Harrow, Middlesex...
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Robert Burnell (category Bishops of Bath and Wells)
Burnell was elected Bishop of Bath and Wells, after Edward had appointed him Lord Chancellor in 1274. Burnell was behind the efforts of the royal officials...
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Abbot of Westminster (18 June 1280 – 1283) John Kirkby, Bishop of Ely (6 January 1284 – 26 March 1290) William of March, Bishop of Bath and Wells (6 April...
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Richard Foxe (redirect from Richard Fox, Bishop of Exeter)
churchman, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, and became also Lord...
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crowd in the market place, but released on the intervention of the Bishop of Bath and Wells. During the Monmouth Rebellion (1685) the rebel army attacked...
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Prior Park Landscape Garden (category Scheduled monuments in Bath and North East Somerset)
steep valley overlooking the city of Bath a park was established on the site by John of Tours, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, in around 1100 as a deer park...
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Lady Eleanor Talbot (category House of York)
Commines he acted with the support of Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells. Stillington had been briefly imprisoned and fined for speaking out against...
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Baronets with the surname Wells Bishop of Bath and Wells Charles Wells Ltd, a vertically integrated British regional brewer HMS Wells (I95), a British naval...
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Thomas Wolsey (category Bishops of Bath and Wells)
1518 he was appointed as abbot of St. Albans and bishop of Bath. Following the success of the English campaign in France and the peace negotiations that...
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(1915–1916). The Register of John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1425–1443: From the Original in the Registry at Wells. Somerset Record Society....
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Robert Stillington (category Bishops of Bath and Wells)
(about 1405 – May 1491) was an English cleric and administrator who was Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1465 and twice served as Lord Chancellor under King...
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temporal powers over the liberty of Durham and later the county palatine of Durham. The bishop, with the bishop of Bath and Wells, escorts the sovereign at the...
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Thomas Lake (category Secretaries of state of the Kingdom of England)
unkind comment by his enemies throughout his life. Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, was his older brother. He attended King Edward VI School, Southampton...
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