Toby Matthew Howarth (born 12 July 1962)[1] is a Church of England bishop. He is the current and first area[2] Bishop of Bradford in the Diocese of Leeds.[3] As of 1 December 2025 he is also interim Bishop of Leeds.[4]

Howarth was educated at Yale University and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; and ordained in 1990. He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1992 (27 September), at Derby Cathedral, by Peter Dawes, Bishop of Derby.[5] He studied at Birmingham University for his MA.[6] 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 St Christopher's Church, Springfield from then until 2011. He was then the Archbishop of Canterbury's Secretary for International Relations until his elevation to the episcopate.[7]

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  2. ^ From 1919 until 2014 Bradford was a discrete diocese
  3. ^ "Huddersfield's first ever bishop named as Jonathan Gibbs". BBC News. 26 August 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  4. ^ https://www.leeds.anglican.org/who-we-are/our-diocese/vacancy-in-see/
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  6. ^ "Suffragan Bishop of Bradford: Toby Matthew Howarth"
  7. ^ Crockford's on-line accessed 3 December 2014