enthroned ended predecessor successor death_date consecration birth_place death_place religion title nationality article_title province ordination diocese name type alma_mater
1352 june 1361 reginald brian adam houghton june 1361 1352 perhaps at great yarmouth , date unknown . st david 's roman catholic bishop of st david 's english thomas fastolf
 canterbury unknown st david 's thomas fastolf bishop probably cambridge
thomas fastolf

thomas fastolf , sometimes spelt fastolfe -lrb- died june 1361 -rrb- was an english canon lawyer and bishop of st david 's from 1352 until his death .
probably educated at cambridge and then overseas , he held the degree of doctor of laws and his first career was as a canon lawyer in avignon , which was then the seat of the papacy .
he is credited as the first identifiable reporter of cases in the papal court known as the rota .
as fastolf advanced in the service of the avignon popes , he gained a series of preferments in the british isles , concluding with the bishopric of st david 's .
