Toby Howarth

Toby Matthew Howarth (born 1962) is a Church of England bishop. He is the current and first Area Bishop[1] of Bradford in the Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales.[2]

Haworth was educated at Yale University and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; and ordained in 1990. He studied at Birmingham University for his MA.[3] 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 Springfield from then until 2011. He was then the Archbishop of Canterbury's Secretary for International Relations until his elevation to the episcopate.[4]

References

  1. ↑ From 1919 until 2014 Bradford was a discrete diocese
  2. ↑ "Huddersfield's first ever bishop named as Jonathan Gibbs". BBC News. 26 August 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  3. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/news/suffragan-bishop-of-bradford-toby-matthew-howarth
  4. ↑ Crockford's on-line accessed 3 December 2014