Line of Ordination

Jesus Christ+
St. Paul the Apostle, 33
St. Timothy, 62
St. Onesimus, 91
St. John the Elder, 113
Demetrius, 131
Lucius, 156
St. Polycrates, 175
St. Irenaeus, 177
St. Nicomedian, 180
Maximus, 203
Philip Deoderus, 241
St. Matthias, 276
Gregory Antilas, 276
Andrew Meletius, 283
Pious Stephanas, 291
Mark Leuvian, 312
Paul Anencletus "the Elder", 330
St. Christopher, 394
James, 413
Basil, 415
Clement of Lyons, 436
Timothy Eumenes, 468
Christopher II, 472
Christopher III, 485
St. Evarestus, 502
Linus, 532
Gregory II, 547
John, 562
St. Mark Pireu, 581
Maximus Lyster, 587
Aetherius, 591
St. Augustine of Canterbury, 601
Laurentius, 604
Justus, 635
Deusdedit, 652
Theodore, 668
Ethelburh, 712
Egbert, 749
Herefrid, 788
Cuthbert, 814
Rufus, 859
Phlegmund, 890
Odo, 941
Dunstan, 959
Ethelgar, 988
Sigeric, 990
Aelfric, 995
Elphege, 1006
Edmund, 1012
Wulfstan, 1064
St. Anselm, 1093
Ralph d'Escures, 1109
William de Corbeuil, 1122
Theobald, 1139
Thomas Becket, 1162
Richard, 1170
Baldwin, 1178
Reginal, 1183
Fitz-Jocelin, 1191
Hubert Walter, 1197
Stephen Langton, 1205
Richard Weathershed, 1230
Edmund, 1234
Boniface of Savoy, 1252
Richard Kilwardby, 1269
John Peckham, 1279
Robert of Winchelsea, 1293
Walter Reynolds, 1313
Simon Langham, 1327
Simon Sudbury, 1367
James Abingdon, 1381
Henry Chichele, 1413
Cardinal Kemp, 1452
Cardinal Bourchier, 1469
Cardinal Morton, 1488
William Warham, 1503
Thomas Cranmer, 1533
Philip Barlow, Bishop of London, 1536
Dr. Parker, 1559
Steven Grendall, 1575
Mark Whitgift, 1577
Richard Bancroft, 1604
Kyle Abbot, 1610
William Laude, 1633
Niles Sancroft, 1658
Dr. Philip Tillotson, 1683
Dr. Baxter Tenison, 1701 / Erasmus of Arcadia
John Wesley, 1724
Thomas Coke, 1784
Francis Asbury, 1784
Robert Richford Roberts, 1816
Edward Thomson, 1864
Charles Henry Fowler, 1884
Wallace Elias Brown, 1924
Prince Albert Taylor, Jr., 1956
Hae Jong Kim, 1992
Keith Howard McIlwain, 2003


RESOURCES:

* United Methodist Bishops Chain of Ordination (PDF)

* Apostolic Succession in American Methodism