Eröffnung des Zentrums für Interreligiösen und Interkulturellen Dialog (8232485452) (Toby Howarth cropped)

Toby Matthew Howarth (born 12 July 1962) is a

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bishop. He is the current and first

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of Bishop of Bradford in the Diocese of Leeds. Howarth was educated at

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and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; and

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in 1990. He studied at Birmingham University for his MA. His first post was a

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, after which he was with Crosslinks in

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then the

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. He was a tutor at

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from 2000 until 2004; and

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at St Christopher's Church, Springfield from then until 2011. He was then the Archbishop of Canterbury's

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for

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until his elevation to the

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. Crockford's on-line accessed 3 December 2014

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Howarth, Toby Matthew Living people 1962 births Bishops of Bradford Alumni of the University of Birmingham