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Bishops of the Mercians
c. 656   Diuma, a "Scot", (i.e. an Irishman), ordained (i.e. consecrated) by Bishop Finan of Lindisfarne. He "in a short time gained many people to our Lord". (Bede)
658   Ceollach, also a "Scot," who, after a short episcopate, retired to the island of Hii (Iona).
c. 659   Trumhere, a kinsman of the good King Oswin, of Deira, and formerly abbot of the monastery of Ingethlingum (tentatively identified as Gilling in North Yorkshire).
662   Jaruman, "a religious and good man".   (Bede)
669   St Chad, who became the first Bishop of Lichfield.
 
Abbesses of Repton
?   Possibly St Werberga, daughter of Wulfhere, King of Mercia.   She died about 699.
?   Aelfthryth, who received St Guthlac into Repton Abbey in 697.
?   St Edburga, daughter of Adulph, or Aldwulf, King of the East Anglians, who, before St Guthlac's death in 714, sent him a shroud and a coffin of lead to Croyland in readiness for his burial.
c. 835   Kenewara
 
Priors of Repton
1153 - 60   Robert
1172 - 81   Nicholas
c. 1200   Albred
1208   Richard
c. 1215   Nicholas
1220   John
c. 1230   Reginald
1252   Peter
1268   Richard
1289   Robert
1316 - 36   Ralph
1336 - 46   John de Lichfield
1346 - 56   Simon de Sutton
1356 - 99   Ralph Derby
1399   William of Tutbury
c. 1411   William Maynesin
1436   Wystan Porter
1436 - 38   John Overton
1438 - 71   John Wylne
1471 - 86   Thomas Sutton
1486 - 1503   Henry Prest
1503 - 08   William Derby
1508   John Young, died in 1538, a few days before the priory was dissolved.
   W. Page, Victoria History of the County of Derbyshire
London 1905.   Vol. 2, Domesday Survey, p.345