Toby Howarth

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Toby Matthew Howarth (born 12 July 1962){{Who's Who | title=Howarth, Toby Matthew | id = U282438 | volume = 2017 | edition = November 2016 online | access-date = 21 December 2016 }} is a Church of England bishop. He is the current and first areaFrom 1919 until 2014 Bradford was a discrete diocese of Bishop of Bradford in the Diocese of Leeds.{{cite news|title=Huddersfield's first ever bishop named as Jonathan Gibbs|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-28935742|accessdate=22 November 2014|work=BBC News|date=26 August 2014}}

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.{{Church Times | title = Michaelmas ordinations | archive = 1992_10_09_006 | issue = 6765 | date = 9 October 1992 | page = 6 | accessed = 17 April 2024 }} He studied at Birmingham University for his MA.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/suffragan-bishop-of-bradford-toby-matthew-howarth|title = Suffragan Bishop of Bradford: Toby Matthew Howarth}} 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.Crockford's on-line accessed 3 December 2014