Source Information
Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries, 314-1853 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.Original data: John Le Neve. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae - (1854) Neve/Hardy. Oxford, England: University Press.
Hardy, Thomas Duffus, and Le Neve, John. Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. 3 vols. Oxford, England: University Press, 1854.
About England & Wales, Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries, 314-1853
This collection contains the Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, a chronological list of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries of each cathedral, collegiate church, or chapel in England and Wales, as well as the chief officers at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Details include names and dates of consecration, admission, preferment, and removal or death of archbishops, bishops, deans, precentors, treasurers, chancellors, and archdeacons.
John Le Neve first published Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanaein 1716, and in 1854, Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy expanded the original work, bringing the total entries to 30,000.
