The Rt Revd Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford, giving a speech in 2004
The origins of Christianity in this part of England go back at least to the 7th century, when Saint Birinus brought his mission to the West Saxons in 634. The West Saxon King Cynegils was baptised in the River Thames near the present site of Dorchester Abbey, where the original See was established.
The see was transferred in 1092 to Winchester, before being absorbed into the Diocese of Lincoln, the vast area of which covered much of central and eastern England from the Thames to the Humber. The establishment of the new diocesan structure by Henry VIII saw a new see located Osney in Oxfordshire in 1542 before finally being moved to its present location in the City of Oxford in 1546.
The present diocese contains the greatest number of parishes of any diocese on England (621) and also the most church buildings (815), of which 475 are grade 1 or 2* listed buildings. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Richard Douglas Harries, the 41st Lord Bishop of Oxford, who signs Richard Oxon.
List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Oxford, England and its precursor offices
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
(1825-1901), English historian and bishop of Oxford, son of William Morley Stubbs, solicitor, of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, was born on the 21st of June 1825, and was educated at the Ripon grammar school and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1848, obtaining a first-class in classics and a third in mathematics.
Bishop Stubbs belongs to the front rank of historical scholarl both as an author and a critic.
D.C.L. of Oxford, LL.D. of Cambridge and Edinburgh, Doctor in utroque jure of Heidelberg; an hon~ member of the university of Kiev, and of the Prussian, Bavarian and Danish academies; he received the Prussian order Pour le merite, and was corresponding member of the Acadmie des sciences morales et politiques of the French Institute.
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