Archbishop of York

The Archbishop of York is a primate of the Church of England, second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The see was elevated to an archbishopric in 735.

He is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of York and metropolitan of the Province of York, which covers the northern portion of England (north of the Trent) as well as the Isle of Man. The archbishop is a member ex officio of the House of Lords, and is styled "Primate of England." (The Archbishop of Canterbury is "Primate of All England".)

His throne is in York Minster in central York and his official residence is Bishopthorpe Palace in the village of Bishopthorpe, outside York.

Orthodox Bishops of York

Pre-Conquest

• 1. St Paulinus, 626-633
• 2. St Chad, 664-669
• 3. St Wildrid I, 669-678
• 4. Bosa, 678-706
• 5. John of Beverley, 706-714
• 6. St Wilfrid II, 714-732
• 7. Egbert, c. 732-735

Orthodox Archbishops of York

• 7. Ecgbert, 735-766
• 8. Æthelbert (also known as Æthelbeorht, Adalberht, Ælberht, Aelberht, Aldbert or Æthelbert), c. 767-c. 780
• 9. Eanbald I, c. 780 796
• 10. Eanbald II, 796-c. 808
• 11. Wulfsige, c. 808-c. 834
• 12. Wigmund, 837-854
• 13. Wulfhere, 854-c. 896
• 14. Æthelbald (also known as Æthelbeald, Athelbald, or Ethelbald), 900-c. 916
• 15. Hrotheweard (also known as Lodeward), c. 916-931
• 16. Wulfstan, 931-956
• 17. Oscytel (also known as Oscytel), c. 958-971
• 18. Edwald (also known as Edwaldus or Ethelwold), 971
• 19. St Oswald, 971-992
• 20. Ealdwulf, 995-1002
• 21. Wulfstan, 1002-1023
• 22. Ælfric Puttoc, 1023-1051
• 23. Cynesige (also known as Kynsige), 1051-1060

Roman Catholic Archbishops of York

• 24. Ealdred, 1061-1069
• 25. Thomas I, 1070-1100
• 26. Gerard, 1101-1108
• 27. Thomas II, 1109-1114
• 28. Thurstan, 1119-1140
• 29. William Fitzherbert, 1143-1147 and 1154
• 30. Henry Fitzherbert, 1147-1153 / William Fitzherbert,
• 31. Roger of Pont-L'Eveque, 1154-1181
• 32. Geoffrey Plantagenet, 1181-1191
• 33. Walter de Grey, 1215-1255
• 34. Sewal de Bovill, 1256-1258
• 35. Godfrey of Ludham (or Kineton), 1258-1265
• 36. Walter Giffard, 1256-1279
• 37. William Wickwane, 1279-1285
• 38. John le Romeyn (Romanus), 1286-1296
• 39. Henry of Newark, 1298-1299
• 40. Thomas of Corbridge, 1300-1304
• 41. William Greenfield, 1306-1316
• 42. William of Melton, 1317-1340
• 43. William le Zouche, 1342-1352
• 44. John of Thoresby, 1352-1373
• 45. Alexander Neville, 1374-1388
• 46. Thomas Arundel, 1388-1396
• 47. Robert Waldby, 1396-1398
• 48. Richard le Scrope, 1398-1405
• 49. Henry Bowet, 1406-1423
• 50. John kempe, 1425-1452
• 51. William Booth, 1452-1464
• 52. George Neville, 1465-1476
• 53. Lawrence Booth, 1476-1480
• 54. Thomas Rotheram (or Scott), 1480-1500
• 55. Thomas Savage, 1501-1507
• 56. Christopher Bainbridge, 1508-1514
• 57. Thomas Wolsey, 1514-1530
• 58. Edward Lee, 1531-1544
• 59. Robert Holgate, 1545-1554

Post-Reformation Archbishops of York

• 59. Robert Holgate, 1545-1554
• 60. Nicholas Heath, 1555-1560
• 61. Thomas Young, 1561-1568
• 62. Edmund Grindal, 1570-1576
• 63. Edwin Sandys, 1577-1588
• 64. John Piers, 1589-1594
• 65. Matthew Hutton, 1595-1606
• 66. Tobias Matthew, 1606-1628
• 67. George Monteigne, 1628
• 68. Samuel Harsnett, 1628-1631
• 69. Richard Neile, 1632-1640
• 70. John Williams, 1641-1650
• 71. Accepted Frewen, 1660-1664
• 72. Richard Sterne, 1664-1683
• 73. John Dolben, 1683-1686
• 74. Thomas Lamplugh, 1688-1691
• 75. John Sharp, 1691-1714
• 76. Sir William Dawes, 1714-1724
• 77. Lancelot Blackburne, 1724-1743
• 78. Thomas Herring, 1743-1747
• 79. Matthew Hutton, 1747-1757
• 80. John Gilbert, 1757-1761
• 81. Robert Hay Drummond, 1761-1776
• 82. William Markham, 1777-1807
• 83. Edward Venables Vernon (afterwards Harcourt), 1807-1847
• 84. Thomas Musgrave, 1847-1860
• 85. Charles Thomas Longley, 1860-1862
• 86. William Thomson, 1862-1890
• 87. William Connor Magee, 1890-1891
• 88. William Dalrymple Maclagan, 1891-1908
• 89. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1908-1928
• 90. William Temple, 1929-1942
• 91. Cyril Forster Garbett, 1942-1955
• 92. Arthur Michael Ramsey, 1956-1961
• 93. Frederic Donald Coggan, 1961-1974
• 94. Stuart Yarworth Blanch, 1975-1983
• 95. John Stapylton Habgood, 1983-1995
• 96. David Hope, 1995- 2005
• 97. John Sentamu 2005 - to present date