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Anglo-Saxon Canonists

Below are listed those ecclesiastics and religious who had a direct influence on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. Individuals are assumed to be English by birth, unless otherwise noted. Episcopal dates listed here (with the exception of Boniface's) follow the Handbook of British chronology, 3rd edition, and begin with the date of the bishop's consecration (if this is known).

Augustine
  Archbishop of Canterbury (597–26 May, 604 x 609), b. Italy

Theodore
  Archbishop of Canterbury (26 Mar. 668–19 Sept. 690), b. Tarsus, Cilicia (south-eastern Turkey), 602

Wilfrid
  Bishop of Hexham (706–709)
  Bishop of Leicester (?–706)
  Bishop of Selsey (? 681–? 685)
  Bishop of York (664–678)

Berhtwald
  Archbishop of Canterbury (29 June 693–13 Jan. 731)

Boniface (Wynfrith)
  Archbishop of Mainz (746–754)
  Archbishop (Germany, but with no fixed see) (732–746)
  Bishop (Germany, but with no fixed see) (30 Nov. 722–732)

Ecgberht
  Archbishop of York (? 732–19 Nov. 766)

Nothhelm
  Archbishop of Canterbury (735–17 Oct. 739)

Alcuin
  Abbot of St Martin's at Tours (796–19 May 804)

Wulfred
  Archbishop of Canterbury (ca Oct. 805–24 Mar. 832)

Oda
  Archbishop of Canterbury (941–2 June 958)
  Bishop of Ramsbury (909 x 927–941)

Dunstan
  Archbishop of Canterbury (? 21 Oct. 960–19 May 988)
  Bishop of London (957 x 59–959)

Ælfric
  Abbot of Eynsham (1005–c. 1010)

Wulfstan
  Archbishop of York (1002–28 May, 1023)
  Bishop of Worcester (1002–1016)
  Bishop of London (996–1002)