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unusual facts about Bishop of Lichfield


Luke Booker

Frederick Cornwallis, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry ordained Booker without a title.


Bishop of Lindsey

The diocese of Lindsey (Lindine) was established when the large Diocese of Mercia was divided in the late 7th century into the bishoprics of Lichfield and Leicester (for Mercia itself), Worcester (for the Hwicce), Hereford (for the Magonsæte), and Lindsey (for the Lindisfaras).

Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Upholland

However in 1319 the college was converted into a priory by Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield, because of charges of misbehaviour by the priests.

Pope Adrian I

In 787 Adrian elevated the English diocese of Lichfield to an archdiocese at the request of the English bishops and King Offa of Mercia to balance the ecclesiastic power in that land between Kent and Mercia.

Ralph Baines

(Knowsthorpe, Yorkshire, ca. 1504 — Islington, 18 November 1559) was the last Roman Catholic bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, in England.

Royal Oak

In 1897, a tree was planted on the western edge of the garden of Boscobel House by Augustus Legge, then bishop of Lichfield, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

Walkelin de Derby

The ancient Derby School may have been first established by William de Barbâ Aprilis and Walter Durdant, Bishop of Lichfield, in the reign of Henry II.


see also

Ælfheah

Elphege of Lichfield (died 1012-1014), Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Lichfield

John Hackett

John Hacket (1592–1670), English churchman, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 1661–1670

Tarvin

In circa 1226 Alexander de Stavenby bishop of Lichfield founded the prebend of Tarvin which, at £26 13s 4d, was the highest endowment of Lichfield Cathedral.