Early modern • 1541
Thomas Clerk (first Dean of Chester) • 1541–1547
Henry Man (afterwards
Bishop of Sodor and Man 1546) • 1547–1558
William Clyff • 1560–1567
Richard Walker • 1567–1572
John Piers (afterwards
Dean of Salisbury 1572) • 1572–1579
Richard Longworth • 1579–1580
Robert Dorset • 1580–1589
Thomas Mawdesley • 1589–1602 John Nutter • 1602–1605
William Barlow (afterwards
Bishop of Rochester 1605) • 1605–1607
Henry Parry (afterwards
Bishop of Gloucester 1607) • 1607–1644
Thomas Mallory • 1644–1657
William Nichols • 1660–1682
Henry Bridgeman (also
Bishop of Sodor and Man 1671) • 1682–1691
James Arderne • 1691–1718
Lawrence Fogg • 1718–1721
Walter Offley • 1721–1732
Thomas Allen • 1732–1758
Thomas Brooke • 1758–1787
William Smith • 1787–1805
George Cotton Late modern • 1806–1815
Hugh Cholmondeley • 1815-1820
Robert Hodgson (afterwards
Dean of Carlisle 1820) • 1820–1826
Peter Vaughan • 1826–1828
Edward Coplestone (afterwards
Bishop of Llandaff 1828) • 1828–1831
Henry Phillpotts (afterwards
Bishop of Exeter 1831) • 1831–1839
George Davys (afterwards
Bishop of Peterborough 1839) • 1839–1867
Frederick Anson • 1867–1885
John Howson • 1886–1919
John Darby • 1920–1937
Frank Bennett • 1937–1953
Norman Tubbs (
Assistant Bishop until 1948) • 1954–1962
Michael Gibbs • 1963–1977
George Addleshaw • 1978–1986
Ingram Cleasby • 1987–2001
Stephen Smalley • 200230 September 2017 (ret.)
Gordon McPhate • 2017–2018 (Acting) Jane Brooke • 8 September 2018present
Tim Stratford ==Sources==