| Date | Name |
| Before 200 | See founded |
| 314 | Eborius |
| (See Vacant) | |
| 627 | Paulinus |
| (See vacant 30 years) | |
| 664 | St. Chad |
| 669 | St. Wilfrid |
| 678 | Bosa |
| 686 | St. Wilfrid |
| 691 | Bosa |
| 705 | St John of Beverley |
| 718 | Wilfrid II |
| 732 | Egbert |
| 766 | Ethelbert |
| 782 | Eanbald I |
| 796 | Eanbald II |
| 812 | Wulfsige |
| 837 | Wigmund |
| 854 | Wulfhere |
| 895 | Ethelbald |
| 928 | Redewald |
| 931 | Wulstan I |
| 956 | Oskytel |
| 972 | Ethelwold |
| 972 | Oswald |
| 993 | Adulph |
| 1002 | Wulstan II |
| 1023 | Alfric Puttoc |
| 1051 | Kinsius |
| 1060 | Aldred |
| 1070 | Thomas I |
| 1100 | Gerard |
| 1109 | Thomas II |
| 1114 | Thurstan |
| 1144 | St. William |
| 1147 | Henry Murdac |
| 1153 | St. William |
| 1154 | Roger Pont l'Eveque |
| 1191 | Geoffrey Plantagenet |
| 1216 | Walter de Gray |
| 1256 | Sewall de Bovill |
| 1258 | Godfrey Ludham |
| 1266 | Walter Giffard |
| 1279 | William Wickwaine |
| 1286 | John Romanus |
| 1296 | Henry Newark |
| 1300 | Thomas Corbidge |
| 1304 | William Greenfield |
| 1316 | William Melton |
| 1340 | William la Zouche |
| 1353 | John Thoresby |
| 1374 | Alexander Neville |
| 1388 | Thomas Arundel |
| 1397 | Robert Waldby |
| 1398 | Richard Scrope |
| 1407 | Henry Bowet |
| 1426 | John Kempe |
| 1452 | William Booth |
| 1465 | George Neville |
| 1476 | Lawrence Booth |
| 1480 | Thomas Rotherham |
| 1501 | Thomas Savage |
| 1508 | Christopher Bainbrigg |
| 1514 | Thomas Wolsey |
| 1531 | Edward Lee |
| 1545 | Robert Holgate |
| 1555 | Nicholas Heath |
| 1561 | Thomas Young |
| 1570 | Edmund Grindal |
| 1577 | Edwin Sandys |
| 1589 | John Piers |
| 1595 | Matthew Hutton |
| 1606 | Tobias Matthew |
| 1628 | George Monteigne |
| 1628 | Samuel Haranet |
| 1632 | Richard Neile |
| 1641 | John Williams |
| 1650 | (See vacant) |
| 1660 | Accepted Frewen |
| 1664 | Richard Sterne |
| 1683 | John Dolben |
| 1688 | Thomas Lamplugh |
| 1691 | John Sharpe |
| 1714 | Sir William Dawes |
| 1724 | Lancelot Blackburne |
| 1743 | Thomas Herring |
| 1747 | Matthew Hutton |
| 1757 | John Gilbert |
| 1761 | Hon. Robt. Hay Drummond |
| 1777 | William Markham |
| 1808 | Edw. V. Vernon Harcourt |
| 1847 | Thomas Musgrave |
| 1860 | Chas. Thos. Longley |
| 1863 | William Thomson |
| 1891 | William Connor Magee |
| 1891 | William D. Maclagan |
| 1908 | Cosmo Gordon Lang |
| 1929 | William Temple |
| 1942 | Cyril Forster Garbett |
| 1956 | Arthur Michael Ramsey |
| 1961 | Fredk. Donald Coggan |
| 1974 | Stuart Blanche |
| 1983 | John Stapylton Habgood |
| 1997 | David Michael Hope |
| 2005 | John Sentamu |
