Henry Wakefield (bishop of Worcester)

This article is about the Medieval Church of England bishop. For the modern Church of England bishop, see Henry Wakefield (bishop of Birmingham).

Henry Wakefield
Bishop of Worcester
Church	Roman Catholic
See	Diocese of Worcester
In office	1375–1395
Predecessor	Walter Lyghe
Successor	Robert Tideman of Winchcombe
Orders
Consecration	28 October 1375
Personal details
Died	11 March 1395

Henry Wakefield was a medieval Bishop of Worcester.

Wakefield was elected on 12 September 1375 and consecrated on 28 October 1375.^[1]^[2]

Wakefield briefly served as Lord High Treasurer in 1377.^[2]

Wakefield died on 11 March 1395.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Bishops of Worcester, 1268–1543. British History Online. Retrieved 29 December 2008.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 105 and 279. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

Political offices
Preceded by Robert de Ashton	Lord High Treasurer 1377	Succeeded by Thomas Brantingham
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Walter Lyghe	Bishop of Worcester 1375–1395	Succeeded by Robert Tideman of Winchcombe

Bishops of Worcester

Early Medieval	Bosel Oftfor Egwin of Evesham Wilfrith (I) Milred Waermund Tilhere Heathured Denebeorht Heahbeorht Ealhhun Werferth Æthelhun Wilfrith (II) Koenwald St Dunstan St Oswald Ealdwulf

High Medieval	Wulfstan (I) Leofsige Beorhtheah Lyfing Ælfric Puttoc Lyfing Ealdred St Wulfstan (II) Samson Theulf Simon John de Pageham Alured Roger Baldwin of Forde William of Northall Robert FitzRalph Henry de Sully John of Coutances Mauger Randulf of Evesham Walter de Gray Sylvester William de Blois Walter de Cantilupe Nicholas of Ely Godfrey Giffard

Late Medieval	John St German William Gainsborough Walter Reynolds Walter Maidstone Thomas Cobham Wulstan Bransford Adam Orleton Simon Montacute Thomas Hemenhale Wulstan Bransford John of Thoresby Reginald Brian John Barnet William Whittlesey William Lenn Walter Lyghe Henry Wakefield Robert Tideman of Winchcombe Richard Clifford Thomas Peverel Philip Morgan Thomas Polton Thomas Brunce Thomas Bourchier John Carpenter ("Bishop of Worcester and Westbury") John Alcock Robert Morton Giovanni de' Gigli

Early modern	Silvestro de' Gigli Girolamo Ghinucci Hugh Latimer John Bell Nicholas Heath John Hooper Nicholas Heath Richard Pate Edwin Sandys Nicholas Bullingham John Whitgift Edmund Freke Richard Fletcher Thomas Bilson Gervase Babington Henry Parry John Thornborough John Prideaux George Morley John Gauden John Earle Robert Skinner Walter Blandford James Fleetwood William Thomas Edward Stillingfleet William Lloyd John Hough Isaac Maddox James Johnson Brownlow North Richard Hurd

Late modern	Folliott Cornewall Robert Carr Henry Pepys Henry Philpott John Perowne Charles Gore Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs Ernest Pearce Arthur Perowne William Wilson Cash Mervyn Charles-Edwards Robin Woods Philip Goodrich Peter Selby John Inge