John Thomson (bishop)


John Thomson
Thomson in 2024
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseBishop of Selby
In office2014 to 2024
PredecessorMartin Wallace
Orders
Ordination1985 (deacon)
1986 (priest)
by David Lunn
Consecration3 July 2014
by John Sentamu
Personal details
Born (1959-07-01) 1 July 1959 (age 65)
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglicanism

John Bromilow Thomson (born 1 July 1959) is a British retired Anglican bishop. From 2014 to 2024, he was the Bishop of Selby, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England's Diocese of York.

He began his ordained ministry as a curate and youth chaplain in the Diocese of Sheffield, before moving to South Africa and the Anglican Church of Southern Africa as a tutor at a theological college. He returned to Sheffield where he was a vicar from 1993 to 2001 and the director of ministry for the Diocese of Sheffield from 2001 to 2014.