Toby Howarth

Toby Matthew Howarth is a Church of England bishop. He is the current and first area of Bishop of Bradford in the Diocese of Leeds. As of 1 December 2025 he is also interim Bishop of Leeds.
Howarth was educated at Yale University and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; and ordained in 1990. He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1992, at Derby Cathedral, by Peter Dawes, Bishop of Derby. He studied at Birmingham University for his MA. 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.