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The Right Reverend George Cotes
Bishop of Chester
Church	Roman Catholic
Installed	6 July 1554
Term ended	1556
Predecessor	John Bird
Successor	Cuthbert Scott
Orders
Consecration	1 April 1554 by Edmund Bonner
Personal details
Died	1556
Coat of arms

George Cotes (or Cotys, Coates) (died 1556) was an English academic and Catholic Bishop of Chester during the English Reformation.

He had been a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1522, and then became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1527. He was Junior Proctor of Oxford University in 1531. It was some years before he was elected Master of Balliol College, in which post he served in the years 1539–1545.

With the accession of Queen Mary, he was chosen to succeed the former Carmelite John Bird, who had been deprived because he was married, as Bishop of Chester. Cotes was consecrated on 1 April 1554 by bishops Stephen Gardiner of Winchester, Edmund Bonner of London, and Cuthbert Tunstall of Durham, and received papal provision on 6 July 1554. However, he held the post for only a short period of time before he died in c. January 1556.

During the Marian Persecutions he had Protestant George Marsh burnt at the stake as a heretic.

Notes

"The Armorial Bearings of the Bishops of Chester". Cheshire Heraldry Society. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Colericke-Coverley
^ Masters of Balliol. Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts . Retrieved on 10 July 2016.
Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Colericke-Coverley
^ Bishops of Chester. British History Online. Retrieved on 10 July 2016.
John Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Retrieved on 10 July 2016.

F. Sanders, 'George Cotes, Master of Balliol and Bishop of Chester', in Notes and Queries 1894 series 8-V (1894) 48–49.
F. Huskisson & E. Marshall, 'George Cotes, Master of Balliol and Bishop of Chester', in Notes and Queries series 8-V (1894) 153.

Academic offices
Preceded byWilliam Whyte	Master of Balliol College, Oxford 1539–1545	Succeeded byWilliam Wright
Church of England titles
Preceded byJohn Bird	Bishop of Chester 1554–1556	Succeeded byCuthbert Scott

v t e Masters of Balliol College, Oxford
Walter de Fodringeye Hugh de Warkenby Stephen de Cornubia Richard de Chickwell Thomas de Waldeby Henry de Seton Nicholas de Luceby John Poclynton Hugh Corbrygge Robert de Derby John Wycliffe John Hugate Thomas Tyrwhit Hamond Haskman William Lambert Thomas Chace Robert Burley Richard Stapilton William Brandon Robert Twaytes William Lambton John Segden Robert Abdy William Bell Richard Barningham Thomas Cisson Richard Stubbys William White George Coote William Wright James Brooks William Wright Francis Babington Antony Garnet Robert Hooper John Piers Adam Squier Edmund Lilly Robert Abbots John Parkhurst Thomas Laurence George Bradshaw Henry Savage Thomas Good John Venn Roger Mander John Baron Joseph Hunt Theophilus Leigh John Davey John Parsons Richard Jenkyns Robert Scott Benjamin Jowett Edward Caird James Strachan-Davidson Arthur Lionel Smith Alexander Dunlop Lindsay David Lindsay Keir Christopher Hill Sir Anthony Kenny Baruch Blumberg Colin Lucas Andrew Graham Drummond Bone Helen Ghosh

v t e Bishops of Chester
John Bird George Cotes Cuthbert Scott William Downham William Chaderton Hugh Bellot Richard Vaughan George Lloyd Thomas Morton John Bridgeman Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) Brian Walton Henry Ferne George Hall John Wilkins John Pearson Thomas Cartwright Nicholas Stratford Sir William Dawes Francis Gastrell Samuel Peploe Edmund Keene William Markham Beilby Porteus William Cleaver Henry Majendie Bowyer Sparke George Henry Law Charles James Blomfield John Bird Sumner John Graham William Jacobson William Stubbs Francis Jayne Luke Paget Geoffrey Fisher Douglas Crick Gerald Ellison Victor Whitsey Michael Baughen Peter Forster Keith Sinclair (Acting) Mark Tanner

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