English Suffragan See Vacancies

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 28 Jan 2021
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 28 Jan 2021
16 Apr 2021
consecration postponed
Sheffield Doncaster Peter Burrows 1 Oct 2019 6 Sept 2019 Sophie Jelley 2 Dec 2019 25 Mar 2020
21 Sept 2020
 
Southwell and Nottongham Sherwood Tony Porter 23 March 2020 8 Jan 2020 Andrew Emerton  11 Mar 2020 21 May 2020
21 Sept 2020
 
Truro St Germans Chris Goldsmith 29 Sept 2019 18 Oct 2019 Hugh Nelson 17 Jan 2020 June 2020
15 July 2020
 
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 1 Jan 2013
5 Apr 2013
  David Court 9 May 2014 25 July 2014  
York Whitby Martin Warner 2 July 2012 21 Feb 2014 Philip North
Paul Ferguson
19 Oct 2012
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 Aug 2012
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.
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

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