_Consecrated._ _Died._ 1685. Bishop Leyburn 1703. 1688. Bishop Giffard (translated from the Midland District, 1703) 1733. 1733. Bishop Petre 1758. 1741. Bishop Challoner 1781. 1758. Bishop Honourable James Talbot 1790. 1790. Bishop Douglas 1812. 1803. Bishop Poynter 1827. 1823. Bishop Bramston 1836. 1828. Bishop Gradwell 1833. 1833. Bishop Griffiths 1847. _Midland or Central District._ 1688. Bishop Giffard (translated to London, 1703). 1703. Bishop Witham (translated to the Northern District, 1716). 1716. Bishop Stonor 1756. 1753. Bishop Hornihold 1779. 1766. Bishop Honourable T. Talbot 1795. 1786. Bishop Berington 1798. 1801. Bishop Stapleton 1802. 1803. Bishop Milner 1826. 1825. Bishop Walsh (translated to London, 1848). 1840. Bishop Wiseman (coadjutor). _Western District._ 1688. Bishop Ellis 1726. 1715. Bishop Prichard 1750. 1741. Bishop York 1770. 1758. Bishop Walmesley 1797. 1781. Bishop Sharrock 1809. 1807. Bishop Collingridge 1829. 1823. Bishop Baines 1843. _Northern District._ 1688. Bishop James Smith 1711. 1716. Bishop Witham 1725. 1726. Bishop Williams 1740. 1741. Bishop Dicconson 1752. 1750. Bishop Honourable, F. Petre 1775. 1768. Bishop Maire (coadjutor to Bishop Petre) 1769. 1770. Bishop Walton 1780. 1780. Bishop Gibson 1790. 1790. Bishop William Gibson (brother to the preceding bishop) 1821. 1810. Bishop Thomas Smith 1831. 1824. Bishop Penswick 1836. 1833. Bishop Briggs, removed to the new district of Yorkshire in 1840, and became Roman Catholic Bishop of Beverley in 1850. In 1840, England and Wales were divided among eight vicars-apostolic, and from that time until the year 1850 the following was the arrangement: _London._ _Consecrated._ _Died._ 1833. Bishop Griffiths 1847. 1825. Bishop Walsh 1849. 1840. Bishop Wiseman, at first coadjutor to Bishop Walsh here, as he had been in the central District. Elevated to the archiepiscopate, 1850. _Central._