Toby Howarth

Bishop Toby Howarth in 2020

Toby Matthew Howarth (born 12 July 1962)[1] is a Church of England bishop. He is the current and first area[2] of Bishop of Bradford in the Diocese of Leeds.[3]

Howarth was educated at Yale University and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; and ordained in 1990. He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1992 (27 September), at Derby Cathedral, by Peter Dawes, Bishop of Derby.[4] He studied at Birmingham University for his MA.[5] His first post was a curacy at Derby, after which he was with Crosslinks in India then the Netherlands. He was a tutor at Selly Oak College from 2000 until 2004; and Priest in charge at St Christopher's Church, Springfield from then until 2011. He was then the Archbishop of Canterbury's Secretary for International Relations until his elevation to the episcopate.[6]

  1. ^ "Howarth, Toby Matthew". Who's Who. Vol. 2017 (November 2016 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 December 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ From 1919 until 2014 Bradford was a discrete diocese
  3. ^ "Huddersfield's first ever bishop named as Jonathan Gibbs". BBC News. 26 August 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Michaelmas ordinations". Church Times. No. 6765. 9 October 1992. p. 6. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 17 April 2024 – via UK Press Online archives.
  5. ^ "Suffragan Bishop of Bradford: Toby Matthew Howarth".
  6. ^ Crockford's on-line accessed 3 December 2014