in (approximate) reverse order of the announcement of the vacancy
| Diocese | See | retiring bishop | see vacant from | comments to diocesan bishop by |
new bishop | announced | consecrated | notes |
| Exeter | Crediton | Jackie Searle | end Jan 2025 | |||||
| St Edmundsbury & Ipswich |
Dunwich | Mike Harrison | 26 Sept 2024 | to become Bishop of Exeter | ||||
| Birmingham | Aston | Anne Hollinghurst | 1 Oct 2024 | 2 Aug 2024 | ||||
| Leeds | Wakefield | Tony Robinson | 1 Sep 2024 | |||||
| Oxford | Buckingham | Alan Wilson (died 17 Feb 2024) |
18 Feb 2024 | 25 July 2024 | ||||
| Oxford | Reading | Olivia Graham | 1 Oct 2024 | 25 July 2024 | ||||
| Canterbury | Richborough | Norman Banks | 4 Apr 2024 | see below | ||||
| Winchester | Southampton | Deborah Sellin | 13 Dec 2023 | 3 May 2024 | Rhiannon King | 13 Sep 2024 | 18 Oct 2024 | |
| Southwark | Woolwich | Karowei Dorgu (died 8 Sept 2023) |
8 Sep 2023 | 5 Jan 2024 | Alastair Cutting | 6 June 2024 | 3 July 2024 | |
| Europe | suffragan bishop | David Hamid | 1 Mar 2024 | 3 May 2024 | ||||
| York | Whitby | Paul Ferguson | 1 Aug 2024 | 14 Apr 2024 | Barry Hill | 31 Jul 2024 | 10 Oct 2024 | |
| York | Selby | John Thomson | 1 Aug 2024 | 14 Apr 2024 | Flora Winfield | 31 Jul 2024 | 10 Oct 2024 | |
| Coventry | Warwick | John Stroyan | 8 Aug 2023 | |||||
| Bristol | Swindon | Lee Rayfield | 30 Apr 2023 | 1 May 2023 | Neil Warwick | 24 Aug 2023 | 30 Nov 2023 | |
| London | Edmonton | Robert Wickham | 9 July 2023 | 13 July 2023 | Anderson Jeremiah | 20 Dec 2023 | 25 Apr 2024 | |
| Blackburn | Burnley | Philip North | 25 Apr 2023 | 10 Nov 2023 | Joseph Kennedy | 22 Mar 2024 | 19 Jul 2024 | |
| Lichfield | Wolverhampton | Clive Gregory | 1 May 2023 | 16 Feb 2024 | Timothy Wambunya | 27 Aug2024 | 2013 | Dr Wambunya was Bishop of Butere, Kenya, 2013-2020 |
| Norwich | Thetford | Alan Winton | 30 April 2023 | 10 Feb 2023 | Ian Bishop | 14 June 2023 | 29 Sept 2023 | |
| Leeds | Ripon | Helen-Ann Hartley | 3 Feb 2023 | 2 Feb 2023 | Anna Eltringham | 27 Apr 2023 | 22 June 2023 | |
| Chelmsford | Bradwell | John Perumbalath | 20 Jan 2023 | 24 Feb 2023 | Adam Atkinson | 19 June 2023 | 29 Sept 2023 | |
| Guildford | Dorking | Jo Wells | 15 Jan 2023 | 27 Mar 2023 | [Richard] Paul Davies | 26 July 2023 | 29 Sept 2023 | |
| Manchester | Bolton | Mark Ashcroft | 28 Feb 2023 | 6 Nov 2022 | Matthew Porter | 15 Mar 2023 | 22 June 2023 | |
| Lichfield | Oswestry | 5 July 1889 | 11 July 2022 | Paul Thomas | 2 Dec 2022 | 2 Feb 2023 | ||
| St Albans | Hertford | Michael Beasley | 29 June 2022 | 19 July 2022 | Jane Mainwaring | 24 Nov 2022 | 2 Feb 2023 | |
| Leeds | Huddersfield | Jonathan Gibbs | 24 May 2022 | 24 Oct 2022 | Smitha Prasadam | 8 Mar 2023 | 22 Jun 2023 | |
| London | Kensington | Graham Tomlin | 30 Aug 2022 | 22 July 2022 | Emma Ineson | 15 Dec 2022 | 27 Feb 2019 | previously Bishop of Penrith and Bishop to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York |
| Southwark | Kingston | Richard Cheetham | 18 Oct 2022 | 22 July 2022 | (Jonathan) Martin Gainsborough | 16 Dec 2022 | 2 Feb 2023 | |
| Exeter | Plymouth | Nicholas McKinnel | 31 Aug 2022 | 27 Mar 2022 | James Grier | 6 July 2022 | 29 Sept 2022 | |
| Canterbury | Maidstone | Rod Thomas | 2 Oct 2022 | not to be filled | ||||
| Leeds | Kirkstall | Paul Slater | 31 Jan 2022 | 4 Feb 2022 | Arun Arora | 27 May 2022 | 15 July 2022 | |
| Southwark | Croydon | Jonathan Clark | 21 Mar 2022 | 17 Jan 2022 | Rosemarie Mallett | 3 May 2022 | 24 June 2022 | |
| York | Hull | Alison White | 28 Feb 2022 | 25 Feb 2022 | Eleanor Sanderson | 29 June 2022 | 2017 | Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Wellington from 2017 |
| Canterbury | Ebbsfleet | Jonathan Goodall | 8 Sept 2021 | 11 July 2022 | Robert Munro | 9 Dec 2022 | 2 Feb 2023 | |
| York | Beverley | Glyn Webster | 6 Jan 2022 | 16 Mar 2022 | Stephen Race | 12 Oct 2022 | 30 Nov 2022 | |
| Carlisle | Penrith | Emma Ineson | 31 May 2021 | 28 Feb 2022 | Robert Saner-Haigh | 27 May 2022 | 15 July 2022 | |
| Chelmsford | Barking | Peter Hill | 5 Aug 2021 | 18 July 2021 | Lynne Cullens | 30 Nov 2021 | 25 Jan 2022 | |
| London | Willesden | Pete Broadbent | 30 Sept 2021 | 25 July 2021 | Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy | 23 Nov 2021 | 25 Jan 2022 | |
| Leicester | Loughborough | Guli Francis-Dehqani | 11 Mar 2021 | 9 July 2021 | Saju Muthalaly | 12 Nov 2021 | 25 Jan 2022 | |
| Chester | Birkenhead | Keith Sinclair | 9 Mar 2021 | 22 Jan 2021 | Julie Conalty | 27 May 2021 | 19 July 2021 | |
| Norwich | Lynn | Jonathan Meyrick | 25 Jan 2021 | 30 Oct 2020 | Jane Steen | 28 Apr 2021 | 23 June 2021 | |
| Newcastle | Berwick | Mark Tanner | 15 July 2020 | 12 July 2020 | Mark Wroe | 20 Oct 2020 | 5 Jan 2021 | |
| Derby | Repton | Jan McFarlane | 31 Mar 2020 | 26 July 2020 | Malcolm Macnaughton | 30 Oct 2020 | 14 Apr 2021 | |
| Hereford | Ludlow | Alistair Magowan | 30 Apr 2020 | not to be replaced | ||||
| Oxford | Dorchester | Colin Fletcher | 16 Nov 2020 | 31 Aug 2020 | Gavin Collins | 24 Nov 2020 | 14 Apr 2021 |
consecration postponed |
| Chichester | Lewes | Richard Jackson | 7 Jan 2020 | 20 Jan 2020 | William Hazlewood | 29 Apr 2020 | 15 Jul 2020 | |
| Lichfield | Stafford | Geoff Annas | 30 Nov 2019 | 17 Jan 2020 | Matthew Parker | 24 Sept 2020 | 16 Apr 2021 |
consecration postponed |
| Sheffield | Doncaster | Peter Burrows | 1 Oct 2019 | 6 Sept 2019 | Sophie Jelley | 2 Dec 2019 | 21 Sept 2020 |
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| Southwell and Nottongham | Sherwood | Tony Porter | 23 March 2020 | 8 Jan 2020 | Andrew Emerton | 11 Mar 2020 | 21 Sept 2020 |
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| Truro | St Germans | Chris Goldsmith | 29 Sept 2019 | 18 Oct 2019 | Hugh Nelson | 17 Jan 2020 | 15 July 2020 |
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| Worcester | Dudley | Graham Usher | 17 June 2019 | 19 Aug 2019 | Martin Gorick | 4 Nov 2019 | 28 Jan 2020 | |
| Chichester | Horsham | Mark Sowerby | 1 Sept 2019 | 20 Jan 2020 | Ruth Bushyager | 29 Apr 2020 | 15 July 2020 | |
| Chester | Stockport | Libby Lane | 11 Feb 2019 | 22 Jan 2021 | Samuel Corley | 27 May 2021 | 19 July 2021 | |
| Winchester | Southampton | Jonathan Frost | 1 Feb 2019 | 4 Jan 2019 | Deborah Sellin | 16 April 2019 | 3 July 2019 | |
| Canterbury | Dover | Trevor Willmot | 31 May 2019 | see below | Rose Hudson-Wilkin | 28 June 2019 | 19 Nov 2019 | |
| Oxford | Reading | Andrew Proud | 1 May 2019 | 15 Feb 2019 | Olivia Graham | 15 July 2019 | 19 Nov 2019 | |
| London | Stepney | Adrian Newman | 31 Dec 2018 | 7 Jan 2019 | Joanne Grenfell | 7 May 2019 | 3 July 2019 | |
| Ely | Huntingdon | David Thomson | 31 Oct 2018 | 7 Jan 2019 | Dagmar Winter | 7 May 2019 | 3 July 2019 | |
| Durham | Jarrow | Mark Bryant | 8 Oct 2018 | 12 Oct 2018 | Sarah Clark | 20 Dec 2018 | 27 Feb 2019 | |
| Lichfield | Shrewsbury | Mark Rylands | 31 July 2018 | 31 Jan 2019 | Sarah Bullock | 7 May 2019 | 3 July 2019 | |
| Salisbury | Ramsbury | Edward Condry | 30 April 2018 | 11 June 2018 | Andrew Rumsey | 22 Oct 2018 | 25 Jan 2019 | |
| Exeter | Crediton | Sarah Mullally | 8 Mar 2018 | 25 Feb 2018 | Jacqueline Searle | 11 July 2018 | 27 Sept 2018 | |
| Carlisle | Penrith | Robert Freeman | Easter 2018 | Emma Ineson | 9 May 2018 | 27 Feb 2019 | ||
| Liverpool | Warrington | Richard Blackburn | 31 May 2018 | 31 Jan 2018 | Beverley Mason | 24 July 2018 | 18 Oct 2018 | |
| Chelmsford | Bradwell | John Wraw (died 25 July 2017) |
25 July 2017 | John Perumbalath | 9 Mar 2018 | 3 July 2018 | ||
| Leicester | Loughborough | new see | 12 Apr 2017 | Guli Francis-Dehqani | 11 July 2017 | 30 Nov 2017 | ||
| Blackburn | Lancaster | Geoff Pearson | 31 July 2017 | 3 Oct 2017 | Jillian Duff | 13 Mar 2018 | 29 Jun 2018 | |
| Leeds | Ripon | James Bell | 30 Apr 2017 | 26 May 2017 | Helen-Ann Hartley | 9 Nov 2017 | 22 Feb 2014 | previously Bishop of Waikato, New Zealand |
| Newcastle | Berwick | Thomas Sparke | 1572 | 22 Apr 2016 | Mark Tanner | 1 Sept 2016 | 18 Oct 2016 | see in abeyance 1572-2016 |
| Southwark | Woolwich | Michael Ipgrave | 10 June 2016 | 1 Sept 2016 | Karowei Dorgu | 20 Dec 2016 | 17 Mar 2017 | |
| Gloucester | Tewkesbury | Martyn Snow | 12 Mar 2016 | 22 Apr 2016 | Robert Springett | 25 July 2016 | 30 Nov 2016 | |
| Manchester | Bolton | Christopher Edmondson | 30 June 2016 | 31 Mar 2016 | Mark Ashcroft | 22 June 2016 | 18 Oct 2016 | |
| London | Islington | Charles Turner | 1923 | Ric Thorpe | 9 July 2015 | 29 Sept 2015 | see in abeyance 1923-2015 | |
| Leeds [West Yorkshire and the Dales] |
Richmond | Francis Kilner | 1921 | Paul Slater | 18 June 2015 | 19 July 2015 | see in abeyance 1921-2015 | |
| Rochester | Tonbridge | Brian Castle | Oct 2015 | Simon Burton-Jones | 27 Mar 2018 | 3 July 2018 | ||
| Guildford | Dorking | Ian Brackley | 1 Oct 2015 | 13 Nov 2015 | Jo Wells | 24 Mar 2016 | 29 Jun 2016 | |
| Salisbury | Sherborne | Graham Kings | July 2015 | 30 June 2015 | Karen Gorham | 26 Nov 2015 | 24 Feb 2016 | |
| London | Kensington | Paul Williams | summer 2015 | Graham Tomlin | 2 July 2015 | 23 Sept 2015 | ||
| Exeter | Crediton | Nicholas McKinnel | 19 Apr 2015 | 23 Jan 2015 | Sarah Mullally | 9 June 2015 | 22 July 2015 | Nicholas McKinnel to be translated to Plymouth |
| Derby | Repton | Humphrey Southern | 1 Apr 2015 | 6 Nov 2015 | Jan McFarlane | 26 Feb 2016 | 29 June 2016 | |
| Birmingham | Aston | Andrew Watson | 24 Nov 2014 | 18 Feb 2015 | Anne Hollinghurst | 2 July 2015 | 29 Sept 2015 | |
| Bath & Wells | Taunton | Peter Maurice | 30 Apr 2015 | Ruth Worsley | 30 June 2015 | 29 Sept 2015 | ||
| London | Edmonton | Peter Wheatley | end of 2014 | Robert Wickham | 9 July 2015 | 23 Sept 2015 | ||
| York | Hull | Richard Frith | 17 Oct 2014 | 12 Dec 2014 | Alison White | 25 Mar 2015 | 3 July 2015 | |
| St Albans | Hertford | Paul Bayes | 23 July 2014 | 22 Aug 2014 | Michael Beasley | 5 Mar 2015 | 14 May 2015 | |
| Leeds [West Yorkshire and the Dales] |
Bradford | new see | 20 Apr 2014 | 27 June 2014 | Toby Howarth | 26 Aug 2014 | 17 Oct 2014 | |
| Huddersfield | new see | 20 Apr 2014 | 27 June 2014 | Jonathan Gibbs | 26 Aug 2014 | 17 Oct 2014 | ||
| Blackburn | Burnley | John Goddard | 31 Aug 2014 | 8 Aug 2014 | Philip North | 7 Nov 2014 | 2 Feb 2015 | |
| Chester | Stockport | Robert Atwell | 1 May 2014 | 22 May 2014 | Libby Lane | 17 Dec 2014 | 26 Jan 2015 | |
| Winchester | Basingstoke | Peter Hancock | early 2014 | David Williams | 26 June 2014 | 19 Sept 2014 | ||
| Chelmsford | Barking | David Hawkins | 30 Mar 2014 | 10 Jan 2014 | Peter Hill | 2 May 2014 | 25 July 2014 | |
| Exeter | Plymouth | John Ford | 18 Nov 2013 | 30 Sept 2014 | Nicholas McKinnel [Bishop of Crediton] |
2 Dec 2014 | Nov 2012 | |
| Worcester | Dudley | David Walker | 7 Oct 2013 | 9 Sept 2013 | Graham Usher | 12 Dec 2013 | 25 Mar 2014 | |
| Lincoln | Grantham | Tim Ellis | 26 Sept 2013 | 26 Mar 2015 | Nicholas Chamberlain | 8 Sept 2015 | 19 Nov 2015 | |
| York | Selby | Martin Wallace | 30 Nov 2013 | 21 Feb 2014 | John Bromilow Thomson | 2 May 2014 | 3 July 2014 | |
| Chelmsford | Colchester | Christopher Morgan | 31 July 2013 | 10 Jan 2014 | Roger Morris | 2 May 2014 | 25 July 2014 | |
| Gloucester | Tewkesbury | John Went | 17 April 2013 | 19 April 2013 | Martyn Snow | 2 Aug 2013 | 25 Sept 2013 | |
| Canterbury | Ebbsfleet | Jonathan Baker | 2013 | 7 Dec 2012 | Jonathan Goodall | 2 Aug 2013 | 25 Sept 2013 | comments to be sent to the Archbishops’ Secretary for Appointments |
| St Edmundsbury & Ipswich |
Dunwich | Clive Young | 12 May 2013 | 31 Aug 2015 | Michael Harrison | 16 Dec 2015 | 24 Feb 2016 | |
| Lincoln | Grimsby | David Rossdale | 5 Apr 2013 |
David Court | 9 May 2014 | 25 July 2014 | ||
| York | Whitby | Martin Warner | 2 July 2012 | 21 Feb 2014 | Paul Ferguson |
2 May 2014 |
3 July 2014 | Philip North withdrew on 16 Dec 2012 |
| York | Beverley | Martyn Jarrett | 30 Sept 2012 | 14 Apr 2012 | Glyn Webster | 29 Aug 2012 | 25 Jan 2013 | comments to be sent to the Archbishops’ Secretary for Appointments |
| Exeter | Crediton | Robert Evens | 31 Oct 2012 | Nicholas McKinnel | 2 Oct 2012 | Nov 2012 | ||
| Truro | St Germans | Royden Screech | 31 Dec 2011 | 31 Oct 2012 | Christopher Goldsmith | 22 Mar 2013 | 14 May 2013 | |
| Chichester | Lewes | Wallace Benn | 31 Oct 2012 |
7 Oct 2013 | Richard Jackson | 17 Mar 2014 | 14 May 2014 | |
| St Albans | Bedford | Richard Inwood | 1 April 2012 | 19 Sept 2011 | Richard Atkinson | 1 Mar 2012 | 17 May 2012 | |
| Southwark | Croydon | Nicholas Baines | 1 April 2011 | 20 Jun 2011 | Jonathan Clark | 3 Feb 2012 | 21 Mar 2012 | |
| Sheffield | Doncaster | Cyril Ashton | 31 Aug 2011 | Peter Burrows | 6 Oct 2011 | 2 Feb 2012 | ||
| London | Fulham | John Broadhurst | 1 Jan 2011 | Jonathan Baker | 31 Oct 2012 | 16 Jun 2011 | Bishop of Ebbsfleet since June 2011, to move in Feb 2013 | |
| Canterbury | Richborough | Keith Newton | 1 Jan 2011 | Norman Banks | 5 May 2011 | 16 Jun 2011 | ||
| Canterbury | Ebbsfleet | Andrew Burnham | 1 Jan 2011 | Jonathan Baker | 5 May 2011 | 16 Jun 2011 | ||
| Southwark | Woolwich | Christopher Chessun | early 2011 | 20 Jun 2011 | Michael Ipgrave | 3 Feb 2012 | 21 Mar 2012 | |
| Salisbury | Ramsbury | Stephen Conway | early 2011 | 27 Jan 2012 | Edward Condry | 19 Jun 2012 | 21 Sep 2012 | |
| Chelmsford | Bradwell | Laurie Green | 28 Feb 2011 | John Wraw | 26 Jul 2011 | 25 Jan 2012 | ||
| London | Stepney | Stephen Oliver | July 2010 | Adrian Newman | 22 Mar 2011 | 22 Jul 2011 | ||
| Norwich | Lynn | James Langstaff | autumn 2010 | Jonathan Meyrick | 14 Mar 2010 | 2 Jun 2011 | ||
| St Albans | Hertford | Christopher Foster | Paul Bayes | 7 Jul 2010 | 21 Sep 2010 | |||
| Oxford | Reading | Stephen Cottrell | Oct 2010 | Andrew Proud | 17 Jan 2011 | 2007 | Area Bishop of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa from 2007 to 2011 | |
| Winchester | Basingstoke | Trevor Willmott | Feb 2010 | Peter Hancock | 22 Jun 2010 | 21 Sep 2010 | ||
| Peterborough | Brixworth | Frank White | Sept 2010 | John Holbrook | 4 Mar 2011 | 2 Jun 2011 | ||
| Lichfield | Stafford | Gordon Mursell | May 2010 | Geoffrey Annas | 2 Jun 2010 | 21 Sep 2010 | ||
| Winchester | Southampton | Paul Butler | autumn 2009 | Jonathan Frost | 30 Jul 2010 | 30 Nov 2010 | ||
| Carlisle | Penrith | James Newcome | autumn 2009 | Robert Freeman | 10 June 2011 | 28 Oct 2012 | ||
| Canterbury | Dover | Stephen Venner | 30 Nov 2009 | Trevor Willmott | 5 Oct 2009 | 2002 | to take up appointment on 6 Feb 2010 | |
| Norwich | Thetford | David Atkinson | 16 Sept 2009 | Alan Winton | 30 Jun 2009 | 29 Sep 2009 | ||
| Manchester | Hulme | Stephen Lowe | 31 Aug 2009 | not to be replaced | ||||
| Hereford | Ludlow | Michael Hooper | 30 Jun 2009 | Alistair Magowan | 23 Jun 2009 | 29 Sep 2009 | ||
| Lichfield | Shrewsbury | Alan Smith | 2009 | Mark Rylands | 4 Aug 2009 | 28 Oct 2009 | ||
| Liverpool | Warrington | David Jennings | 31 Oct 2009 | Richard Blackburn | 27 Aug 2009 | 3 Nov 2009 | ||
| Chichester | Horsham | Lindsay Urwin | Feb 2009 | Mark Sowerby | 19 Jun 2009 | 25 Jul 2009 | ||
| Canterbury | Maidstone | Graham Cray | 2009 | Rod Thomas | 5 May 2015 | 23 Sept 2015 | It was announced on 4 Dec 2014 that this see will be filled by a bishop who takes a conservative evangelical view on headship. |
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| York | Whitby | Robert Ladds | 31 Dec 2008 | Martin Warner | 2 Nov 2009 | 26 Jan 2010 | ||
| Salisbury | Sherborne | Tim Thornton | Oct 2008 | Graham Kings | 24 Apr 2009 | 24 Jun 2009 |
Bishop of Dover - The nominee for this see was chosen by the Crown Nominations Commission in the same way as a diocesan bishop. The CNC held its meetings on 5 April 2019 and 7-8 May 2019.
Bishop of Richborough - Comments by 19 May 2024 to
David Wicksteed
Appointments & Vocations Adviser
Archbishops’ Advisers for Appointments & Vocations
at: aaav.office@churchofengland.org