Toby Howarth

Toby Matthew Howarth (born 12 July 1962) is a Church of England bishop. He is the current and first area Bishop of Bradford in the Diocese of Leeds. As of 1 December 2025 he is also interim Bishop of Leeds. 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. He studied at Birmingham University for his MA. 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.

Toby Matthew Howarth (born 12 July 1962)^[1] is a Church of England bishop. He is the current and first area^[2] Bishop of Bradford in the Diocese of Leeds.^[3] As of 1 December 2025 he is also interim Bishop of Leeds.^[4]

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.^[5] He studied at Birmingham University for his MA.^[6] 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.^[7]

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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. ^ https://www.leeds.anglican.org/who-we-are/our-diocese/vacancy-in-see/
5. ^ "Michaelmas ordinations". Church Times. No. 6765. 9 October 1992. p. 6. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 17 April 2024 – via UK Press Online archives.
6. ^ "Suffragan Bishop of Bradford: Toby Matthew Howarth".
7. ^ Crockford's on-line accessed 3 December 2014