Richard Challoner (1739–1758) Robert Gradwell (1828–1833), did not succeed to see Thomas Griffiths (1833–1836) Henry Howard (1720), did not take effect Benjamin Petre (1721–1734) William Poynter (1803–1812) James Robert Talbot (1759–1781) Coadjutor Archbishops George Errington (1855–1860), did not succeed to see Edward Myers (1951–1956), did not succeed to see Auxiliary Bishops William Weathers (1872–1895) James Laird Patterson (1880–1902) Robert Brindle (1899–1901), appointed Bishop of Nottingham Algernon Charles Stanley (1903–1928) Patrick Fenton (1904–1918) William Anthony Johnson (1906–1909) Joseph Butt (1911–1938) Emmanuel John Bidwell (1917–1930) Edward Myers (1932-–1951), appointed Coadjutor here David James Mathew (1938–1946), appointed apostolic delegate and titular archbishop George Laurence Craven (1947–1967) David John Cashman (1958–1965), appointed Bishop of Arundel and Brighton Patrick Joseph Casey (1965–1969), appointed Bishop of Brentwood Basil Butler (1966–1986) Gerald Thomas Mahon (1970–1992) Victor Guazzelli (1970–1996) David Konstant (1977–1985), appointed Bishop of Leeds Philip James Benedict Harvey (1977–1990) James Joseph O'Brien (1977–2005) John Patrick Crowley (1986–1992), appointed Bishop of Middlesbrough Vincent Gerard Nichols (1991–2000), appointed Archbishop of Birmingham; later returned here as Archbishop; future Cardinal Patrick O'Donoghue (1993–2001), appointed Bishop of Lancaster Arthur Roche (2001–2002), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Leeds George Stack (2001–2011), appointed Archbishop of Cardiff, Wales Bernard Longley (2003–2009), appointed Archbishop of Birmingham Alan Stephen Hopes (2003–2013), appointed Bishop of East Anglia John Stanley Kenneth Arnold (2005–2014), appointed Bishop of Salford John Francis Sherrington (2011–present) Nicholas Gilbert Erskine Hudson (2014–present) John Wilson (2015–2019), appointed Archbishop of Southwark Paul McAleenan (2015–present) Other priests of this diocese who became bishops Bonaventure Giffard, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Western District in 1688; later returned here as Vicar Apostolic James Smith, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Northern District in 1688 John Talbot Stonor, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Northern District in 1715 Francis Petre, appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Northern District in 1750 Thomas Joseph Talbot, appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Midland District in 1766 William Walton, appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Northern District in 1770 Charles Berington, appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Midland District in 1786 John Vertue (Virtue), appointed Bishop of Portsmouth in 1882 John Larkin, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 1832 and Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1849; neither took effect; became a Jesuit in 1840 Charles Michael Baggs, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Western District in 1844 Thomas Grant, appointed Bishop of Southwark in 1851 John Baptist Butt, appointed auxiliary bishop of Southwark in 1884 Henry O'Callaghan, appointed Bishop of Hexham and New