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'''DIOCESE OF LINCOLN'''
'''DIOCESE OF LINCOLN'''


Country : [[Ecclesiastical heraldry of the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]<br>
Country : [[Ecclesiastical heraldry of the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]<br>
Denomination : [[:Category:Anglican heraldry|Anglican]]<br>
Denomination : [[:Category:Anglican heraldry|Anglican]] (until 1559 [[:Category:Catholic heraldry|Roman Catholic]])<br>
Established : 678 as diocese of Lindsey, translated to Leicester 679, to Dorcester 886 and to Lincoln 1072.
Established : 678 as diocese of Lindsey, translated to Leicester 679, to Dorcester 886 and to Lincoln 1072.


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The arms first appear upon the seal of William Smith (1496-1514) before which the seals usually bore the figures of the Blessed Virgin and Holy Child. The chief is a continuation of this practice and refers to the dedication of the Cathedral to the Blessed Virgin Mary and All Saints; the lions are the arms attributed to the Norman Kings and commemorate William I under whose ecclesiastical reorganisation the See of Dorchester-on-Thames was transferred to Lincoln.
The arms first appear upon the seal of William Smith (1496-1514) before which the seals usually bore the figures of the Blessed Virgin and Holy Child. The chief is a continuation of this practice and refers to the dedication of the Cathedral to the Blessed Virgin Mary and All Saints; the lions are the arms attributed to the Norman Kings and commemorate William I under whose ecclesiastical reorganisation the See of Dorchester-on-Thames was transferred to Lincoln.
====Arms of Roman Catholic Bishops====
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No image|[[Philip Repyngdon]] (1404-1419)
No image|[[Richard Fleming]] (1420-1431)
No image|[[William Grey]] (1431-1436)
No image|[[William Alnwick]] (1437-1450)
No image|[[Marmaduke Lumley]] (1450-1450)
No image|[[John Chadworth]] (1452-1472)
No image|[[Thomas Rotherham]] (1472-1480)
No image|[[John Russell]] (1480-1494)
No image|[[William Smyth]] (1495-1514)
No image|[[Thomas Wolsey]] (1514-1515)
No image|[[William Atwater]] (1514-1521)
No image|[[John Longland]] (1521-1547)
No image|[[Henry Holbeach]] (1547-1551)
No image|[[John Taylor]] (1552-1554)
No image|[[John White]] (1554-1556)
No image|[[Thomas Watson]] (1557-1559)
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====Arms of Anglican Bishops====
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No image|[[Nicholas Bullingham]] (1560-1571)
No image|[[Thomas Cooper]] (1571-1584)
No image|[[William Wickham]] (1584-1595)
No image|[[William Chaderton]] (1595-1608)
No image|[[William Barlow]] (1608-1613)
No image|[[Richard Neile]] (1614-1617)
No image|[[George Montaigne]] (1617-1621)
No image|[[John Williams]] (1621-1641)
No image|[[Thomas Winniffe]] (1641-1646)
No image|[[Robert Sanderson]] (1660-1663)
No image|[[Benjamin Lany]] (1663-1667)
No image|[[William Fuller]] (1667-1675)
No image|[[Thomas Barlow]] (1675-1691)
No image|[[Thomas Tenison]] (1691-1695)
No image|[[James Gardiner]] (1695-1705)
No image|[[William Wake]] (1705-1716)
No image|[[Edmund Gibson]] (1716-1723)
No image|[[Richard Reynolds]] (1723-1743)
No image|[[John Thomas]] (1744-1761)
No image|[[John Green]] (1761-1779)
No image|[[Thomas Thurlow]] (1779-1787)
No image|[[George Pretyman]] (1787-1820)
No image|[[George Pelham]] (1820-1827)
No image|[[John Kaye]] (1827-1853)
No image|[[John Jackson]] (1853-1869)
No image|[[Christopher Wordsworth]] (1869-1885)
No image|[[Edward King]] (1885-1910)
No image|[[Edward Hicks]] (1910-1919)
No image|[[William Swayne]] (1919-1932)
No image|[[Nugent Hicks]] (1933-1942)
No image|[[Aylmer Skelton]] (1942-1946)
No image|[[Leslie Owen]] (1946-1947)
No image|[[Maurice Harland]] (1947-1956)
No image|[[Kenneth Riches]] (1956-1974)
No image|[[Simon Phipps]] (1974-1986)
No image|[[Robert Hardy]] (1987-2002)
No image|[[John Saxbee]] (2001/2-2011)
No image|[[Christopher Lowson]] (2011-present)
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DIOCESE OF LINCOLN

Country : United Kingdom
Denomination : Anglican (until 1559 Roman Catholic)
Established : 678 as diocese of Lindsey, translated to Leicester 679, to Dorcester 886 and to Lincoln 1072.

Arms (crest) of Diocese of Lincoln

Official blazon

Gules, two lions passant guardant in pale Or; on a chief azure the Virgin. ducally crowned sitting on a throne issuant from the chief, in her dexter arm the Infant Jesus and in her sinister hand a sceptre, all gold.

Origin/meaning

The arms were recorded at the College of Arms.

The arms first appear upon the seal of William Smith (1496-1514) before which the seals usually bore the figures of the Blessed Virgin and Holy Child. The chief is a continuation of this practice and refers to the dedication of the Cathedral to the Blessed Virgin Mary and All Saints; the lions are the arms attributed to the Norman Kings and commemorate William I under whose ecclesiastical reorganisation the See of Dorchester-on-Thames was transferred to Lincoln.

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