A diocese is a geographic area under the care of a bishop, and its coat of arms serves as a visual emblem of the diocese’s authority, tradition, and mission. The heraldic symbol will be used to ...

1500-1570) was consecrated the first and only Bishop of the new short-lived diocese of Westminster ... No memorial exists for him in the Abbey but his supposed coat of arms appears in modern glass in ...

He was Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Rochester. A monument of white marble by sculptor Henry Cheere was placed on the wall of the west aisle of this transept. This shows his coat of arms above ...