The Diocese of Selsey was founded in 681 by St Wilfrid who persuaded the Kingdom of the South Saxons to follow Christ and established the first cathedral (a building which no longer exists) at Selsey.
Bishop Martin is the 77th Bishop of Chichester and 103rd Bishop of the diocese.
Year |
Bishops of Selsey |
| 681 | S Wilfrid |
| Eadbeorht | |
| Eolla | |
| 753 | Sigga |
| Ealabeorht | |
| Osweald | |
| c776 | Gislhere |
| c783 | Tota |
| c788 | Withun |
|
c808
|
Æthelwulf |
| c820 | Coenred |
| c840 | Guthheard |
| Wighelm | |
| 909 | Beornheah |
|
c930
|
Wulfhun |
| c942 | Ælfred |
| 955 | Daniel |
| Beorhthelm | |
| Eadhelm | |
| 980 | Orifbeort |
| 1009 | Ælfmaer |
| 1032 | Æthelric I |
| 1039 | Grimcytel |
| 1047 | Heca |
| 1058 | Æthelric II |
| 1070 | Stigand |
Year |
Bishops of Chichester |
| 1075 | Stigand |
| 1088 | Godfrey |
| 1088 | William |
| 1091 | Ralph Luffa |
| 1125 | Seffrid I |
| 1147 | Hilary |
| 1173 | John of Greenford |
| 1180 | Seffrid II |
| 1204 | Simon Fitz Robert |
| 1215 | Richard Poore |
| 1218 | Ranulf of Wareham |
| 1222 | Ralph Nevill |
| 1244 | S Richard of Chichester (Richard Wych) |
| 1253 | John Climping |
| 1262 | Stephen Bersted |
| 1288 | Gilbert of St Leofard |
| 1305 | John Langton |
| 1337 | Robert Stratford |
| 1362 | William Lenn |
| 1368 | William Read |
| 1385 | Thomas Rushock |
| 1389 | Richard Mitford |
| 1395 | Robert Waldby |
| 1396 | Robert Reade |
| 1418 | Henry Ware |
| 1421 | John Kempe |
| 1421 | Thomas Polton |
| 1426 | John Rickingale |
| 1429 | Simon Sydenham |
| 1438 | Richard Praty |
| 1445 | Adam Moleyns |
| 1450 | Reginald Pecock |
| 1459 | John Arundel |
| 1478 | Edward Story |
| 1503 | Richard Fitz James |
| 1508 | Robert Sherburne |
| 1536 | Richard Sampson |
| 1543 | George Day |
| 1557 | John Christopherson |
| 1559 | William Barlow |
| 1570 | Richard Curtis |
| 1586 | Thomas Bickley |
| 1596 | Anthony Watson |
| 1605 | Lancelot Andrewes |
| 1609 | Samuel Harsnett |
| 1619 | George Carleton |
| 1628 | Richard Montague |
| 1638 | Brian Duppa |
| 1642 | Henry King |
| 1670 | Peter Gunning |
| 1675 | Ralph Brideoake |
| 1679 | Guy Carleton |
| 1685 | John Lake |
| 1689 | Simon Patrick |
| 1691 | Robert Grove |
| 1696 | John Williams |
| 1709 | Thomas Manningham |
| 1722 | Thomas Bowers |
| 1724 | Edward Waddington |
| 1731 | Francis Hare |
| 1740 | Matthias Mawson |
| 1754 | William Ashburnham |
| 1798 | John Buckner |
| 1824 | Robert James Carr |
| 1831 | Edward Maltby |
| 1836 | William Otter |
| 1840 | Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth |
| 1842 | Ashhurst Turner Gilbert |
| 1870 | Richard Durnford |
| 1896 | Ernest Roland Wilberforce |
| 1908 | Charles John Ridgeway |
| 1919 | Winfrid Oldfield Burrows |
| 1929 | George Kennedy Allen Bell |
| 1958 | Roger Plumpton Wilson |
| 1974 | Eric Waldram Kemp |
| 2001 | John William Hind |
| 2012 | Martin Clive Warner (77th and 103rd Bishop) |