| 1072 to 1092 | Remigius de Fécamp
(Remigius de Feschamp) | Almoner of Fécamp, Normandy; died in office |
| 1092 to 1123 | Robert Bloet
(Robert Bluet) | Lord Chancellor;
died in office |
| 1123 to 1147 | Alexander | Archdeacon of Salisbury;
died in office |
| 1147 to 1166 | Robert de Chesney
(Robert de Cheney)
alias Querceto | Died in office |
| 1168 to 1173 | vacant | For 7 years |
| 1173 to 1183 | Geoffrey Plantagenet | Resigned |
| 1183 to 1184 | Walter de Constantiis
(Walter de Coutances; Walter of Coutances) | Archdeacon of Oxford; translated to Rouen |
| 1184 to 1186 | vacant | For 2 years |
| 1186 to 16 November 1200 | Hugh, Carthusian
(Hugh of Avalon) | Prior of the Carthusians at Witham, Somerset; ordained 21 September 1181; installed 29 September 1181; died in office; canonised 1220: Saint Hugh of Lincoln |
| 1200 to 1203 | vacant | For 3 years |
| 1203 to 1206 | William de Blois | Prebendary of Lincoln; consecrated 1203; died in office |
| 1206 to 1209 | vacant | For 3 years |
| 1209 to 1235 | Hugo Wallis
(Hugh of Wells) | Archdeacon of Wells; Lord Chancellor; died in office |
| 1235 to 1253 | Robert Grosseteste
(Robert Grosthead; Robert Grouthed) | Archdeacon of Leicester; died in office |
| 1254 to 1258 | Henry of Lexington | Dean of Lincoln; died in office |
| 1258 to 1280 | Richard of Gravesend
(Richard de Gravesend) | Dean of Lincoln; died in office |
| 1281 to 1300 | Oliver Sutton | Dean of Lincoln; died in office |
| 1300 to 1320 | John Dalderby
(John Aldberry; John d'Aldreby) | Chancellor of Lincoln; died in office |
| 1320 | (Anthony Bek) | elected 3 February, but election quashed |
| 1320 to 1341 | Henry Burghersh | Lord Treasurer and Lord Chancellor; died in office |
| 1341 to 1347 | Thomas Bek
(Thomas le Bec) | died in office |
| 1347 to 1363 | John Gynwell
(John Gyndell; John Gyndwelle; John Sinwell) | Archdeacon of Northampton; died in office |
| 1363 to 1398 | John Bokyngham
(John Buckingham) | Keeper of the Privy Seal; resigned shortly before death |
| 1398 to 1405 | Cardinal Henry Beaufort | Dean of Wells and Chancellor of Oxford; Lord Chancellor;
translated to Winchester |
| 1405 to 1420 | Philip Repyngdon
(Philip de Repingdon) | Abbot of Leicester; Chancellor of Oxford; resigned on being elevated to Cardinal |
| 1420 to 1431 | Richard Fleming
(Richard Fleyming) | Canon of Lincoln |
| 1431 to 1436 | William Gray
(William Grey) | Translated from London |
| 1436 to 1450 | William Alnwick
(William Alnewick) | Translated from Norwich |
| 1450 to 1451 | Marmaduke Lumley | |
| 1451 to 1452 | vacant | |
| 1452 to 1472 | John Chadworth
(John Chedworth) | |
| 1472 to 1480 | Thomas Rotherham | |
| 1480 to 1494 | John Russell | |
| 1496 to 1514 | William Smyth | Translated from Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield |
| 6 February 1514 to September 1515 | Thomas Wolsey | Priest; ordained 26 March 1514; translated to York |
| 1514 to 1521 | William Atwater | |
| 1521 to 1547 | John Longland | |
| 1547 to 1552 | Henry Holbeach | |
| 1552 to 1554 | John Taylor | |
| 1554 to 1557 | John White | |
| 1557 to 1560 | Thomas Watson | |
| 1560 to 1571 | Nicholas Bullingham | |
| 1571 to 1584 | Thomas Cooper | |
| 1584 to 1595 | William Wickham | |
| 1595 to 1608 | William Chadderton | |
| 1608 to 1613 | William Barlow | Translated from Rochester |
| 1613 to 1617 | Richard Neile | Translated from Rochester, to Lichfield, to Lincoln, to Durham, to Winchester, to York |
| 1617 to 1621 | George Montaigne | Translated to London, to Durham, to York |
| 1621 to 1641 | John Williams | Translated to York; Lord Chancellor 1621-1625 (the last cleric to hold the position) |
| 1641 to 1654 | Thomas Winniffe | |
| 1654 to 1660 | vacant | |
| 1660 to 1663 | Robert Sanderson | |
| 1663 to 1667 | Benjamin Laney | |
| 1667 to 1675 | William Fuller | |
| 1675 to 1691 | Thomas Barlow | |
| 1691 to 1695 | Thomas Tenison | |
| 1695 to 1705 | James Gardiner | |
| 1705 to 1716 | William Wake | |
| 1716 to 1723 | Edmund Gibson | |
| 1723 to 1744 | Richard Reynolds | |
| 1744 to 1761 | John Thomas | |
| 1761 to 1779 | John Green | |
| 1779 to 1787 | Thomas Thurlow | |
| 1787 to 1820 | George Pretyman (after 1803, Pretyman-Tomline) | |
| 1820 to 1827 | George Pelham | |
| 1827 to 1853 | John Kaye | |
| 1853 to 1869 | John Jackson | |
| 1869 to 1885 | Christopher Wordsworth | |
| 1885 to 1910 | Edward King | |
| 1910 to 1919 | Edward Lee Hicks | |
| 1919 to 1932 | William Shuckburgh Swayne | |
| 1932 to 1942 | Frederick Cyril Nugent Hicks | |
| 1942 to 1946 | Henry Aylmer Skelton | |
| 1947 to 1947 | Leslie Owen | |
| 1947 to 1956 | Maurice Henry Harland | |
| 1956 to 1974 | Kenneth Riches, DD | |
| 1974 to 1987 | Simon Wilton Phipps, MC, MA | |
| 1987 to 2002 | Robert Maynard Hardy | |
2002 to 2011
2011 to present | Dr John Saxbee
Christopher Lowson | |
