Henry Sandford was a medieval

Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Rochester is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury. The town of Rochester, Kent, Rochester has the bishop's seat, at the Rochester Cathedral, Cathedral Chur ...

. Sandford was a royal official before becoming a

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of the

diocese of Salisbury The Diocese of Salisbury is a Church of England diocese in the south of England, within the ecclesiastical Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the historic county of Dorset (which excludes the deaneries of Bournemouth and Christchurch, ...

and was

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from about 1213 until he was chosen for Rochester.British History Online Archdeacons of Canterbury
accessed on 30 October 2007 Sandford was elected to the

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on 26 December 1226 and consecrated on 9 May 1227.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 267 He was enthroned at

Rochester Cathedral Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in Rochester, Kent, England. The cathedral is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Rochester and seat (''cathedra'') of the Bishop of Rocheste ...

on 16 May 1227.British History Online Bishops of Rochester
accessed on 30 October 2007 Sandford probably died on 24 February 1235.

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British History Online Archdeacons of Canterbury
accessed on 30 October 2007
British History Online Bishops of Rochester
accessed on 30 October 2007 * Bishops of Rochester 13th-century English Roman Catholic bishops Archdeacons of Canterbury 1235 deaths Year of birth unknown {{England-bishop-stub