Mark Tanner


Mark Tanner
Bishop of Chester
Tanner in 2023
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseDiocese of Chester
In office2020–present
PredecessorPeter Forster
Other post(s)Warden of Cranmer Hall, Durham (2011–2016)
Bishop of Berwick (2016–2020)
Orders
Ordination1998 (deacon)
1999 (priest)
Consecration18 October 2016
by John Sentamu
Personal details
Born
Mark Simon Austin Tanner

November 1970 (age 53–54)
Canada
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglicanism
Spouse
Lindsay
(m. 1994)
ChildrenTwo
EducationLoughborough Grammar School
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
Cranmer Hall, Durham
St John's College, Durham
University of Liverpool

Mark Simon Austin Tanner (born November 1970) is a British Anglican bishop and academic. Since 2020, he has been the Bishop of Chester; he previously served as Bishop of Berwick, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Newcastle since his 2016 consecration as bishop; and from August 2011 until his consecration, he was the Warden of Cranmer Hall, Durham, a Church of England theological college.