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__NOTOC__ Ralph Baldock (or Ralph de Baldoc) was a medieval
Bishop of London A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
. Baldock was elected on 24 February 1304,
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10 May, and consecrated on 30 January 1306.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 258 Baldock served as
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of England from 21 April 1307 to 2 August 1307.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' pp. 85-86 He licensed Bow Church on 17 November 1311 as a chapel of ease. He died on 24 July 1313.


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* Tipping, H. A.
‘Baldock, Ralph (d. 1313)’
, rev. M. C. Buck, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 8 November 2007 Bishops of London Lord chancellors of England 1313 deaths Year of birth unknown Deans of St Paul's 14th-century English Roman Catholic bishops {{England-bishop-stub