The Court of the Vicar-General of the Province of York is responsible for granting Marriage Licences in the Province of York of the Church of England.^[1] The Vicar-General of the Province and Official Principal of the Consistory Court is distinct from the Dean of the Arches. The Registrar is the Registrar of the Chancery Court of York.

List of Vicars-General

• PN Collier, QC 2008-
• TAC Coningsby, QC 1980-2008
• Rev'd Kenneth Elphinstone, QC 1972-1980
• Walter Wigglesworth, QC 1944-1972
• HB Vaisey, KC c.1938
• Sir Philip Wilbraham Baker Wilbraham, Bt, 1915-1934
• Rt Hon Sir Charles Cripps, KCVO 1900- [Lord Parmoor cr 1914]
• Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, QC 1877-1900 s:Beckett, Edmund (DNB12)