The Bishop of Bradford is an episcopal title used by a

suffragan bishop A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdiction ...

of the

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Diocese of Leeds, in the

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England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. The title takes its name after

Bradford Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...

, a city in

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...

. Upon the creation of the Diocese of LeedsThe Church of England – Synod approves new Diocese of Leeds for West Yorkshire and The Dales
/ref> on 20 April 2014, the diocesan see was dissolved and its diocese's territory added to the new diocese, within which there is a newly created suffragan see for the Area Bishop of Bradford.The Dioceses of Bradford, Ripon and Leeds and Wakefield Reorganisation Scheme 2013
p. 5 (Accessed 4 February 2014) On 26 August 2014, it was announced that

Toby Howarth Toby Matthew Howarth (born 12 July 1962) is a Church of England bishop. He is the current and first area of Bishop of Bradford in the Diocese of Leeds. Howarth was educated at Yale University and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; and ordained in 1990. He s ...

was to become the first area bishop of Bradford; he was consecrated on 17 October 2014.

List of bishops

References

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Bishops of Bradford