John Climping (died 18 May 1262) was a medieval Bishop of Chichester.
Life
Climping was a clerk of Ranulf of Wareham by 18 July 1220.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 5: Chichester: Unidentified Prebends By 1232 he was a canon of Chichester Cathedral and was named Archdeacon of Chichester by December 1242.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 5: Chichester: Archdeacons: Chichester He was then Chancellor of Chichester by 17 July 1247 as well as rector of Climping.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 5: Chichester: Chancellors of Chichester He was elected to the see of Chichester on 20 May 1253, and consecrated on 11 January 1254Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 239 at Canterbury.
Climping died on 18 May 1262.
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