ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS

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These files are in the process of compilation, and remain subject to further revision. The lists of bishops and the list of church councils supersede the lists published in the third edition of the Handbook of British Chronology (1986), and are made available here pending the publication of a fourth edition.

EPISCOPAL SUCCESSION

• Episcopal succession in Anglo-Saxon England - information on the surviving sets of episcopal lists (compiled in the late eighth or early ninth century, and transmitted in various forms thereafter), and reconstructed lists of the bishops of each episcopal see (with brief notes and references)

EPISCOPAL PROFESSIONS

• Episcopal professions - a list of all of the surviving texts, based on the material published in Canterbury Professions, ed. Michael Richter, Canterbury and York Society 67 (1973)

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