List of bishops of Chester

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Main article: Bishop of Chester

List of bishops of Chester after the foundation of the modern diocese of Chester in 1546. Earlier the midland diocese had for a time had its see at Chester, for which see List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Lichfield and its precursor offices.

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
1542 to 1554	John Bird
1554 to 1555	George Cotes
1556 to 1559	Cuthbert Scott
1561 to 1577	William Downham
1579 to 1595	William Chaderton
1595 to 1596	Hugh Bellot	Translated from Bangor
1597 to 1604	Richard Vaughan
1604 to 1615	George Lloyd
1616 to 1619	Thomas Morton
1619 to 1652	John Bridgeman
1660 to 1661	Brian Walton
1662 to 1662	Henry Ferne
1662 to 1668	George Hall
1668 to 1672	John Wilkins
1673 to 1686	John Pearson
1686 to 1689	Thomas Cartwright
1689 to 1707	Nicholas Stratford
1708 to 1714	Sir William Dawes, the 3rd Baronet Dawes
1714 to 1725	Francis Gastrell
1726 to 1752	Samuel Peploe
1752 to 1771	Edmund Keene
1771 to 1776	William Markham
1776 to 1787	Beilby Porteus
1788 to 1800	William Cleaver
1800 to 1809	Henry Majendie
1810 to 1812	Bowyer Sparke
1812 to 1834	George Law
1824 to 1828	Charles Blomfield
1828 to 1848	John Sumner
1845 to 1865	John Graham
1865 to 1884	William Jacobson
1884 to 1889	William Stubbs
1889 to 1919	Francis Jayne
1919 to 1932	Henry Paget
1932 to 1939	Geoffrey Fisher
1939 to 1955	Douglas Crick
1955 to 1973	Gerald Ellison
1974 to 1981	Hubert Whitsey
1982 to 1996	Michael Baughen	Retired
1996 to present	Peter Robert Forster, PhD	Enthroned 21 January 1997