{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|right|Bishop Toby Howarth in 2020 '''Toby Matthew Howarth''' (born 12 July 1962)<ref>{{Who's Who | title=Howarth, Toby Matthew | id = U282438 | volume = 2017 | edition = November 2016 online | access-date = 21 December 2016 }}</ref> is a Church of England bishop. He is the current and first area<ref>From 1919 until 2014 Bradford was a discrete diocese</ref> Bishop of Bradford in the Diocese of Leeds.<ref name="bbc - Huddersfield's first ever bishop named as Jonathan Gibbs">{{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}}</ref> As of 1 December 2025 he is also interim Bishop of Leeds.<ref>https://www.leeds.anglican.org/who-we-are/our-diocese/vacancy-in-see/</ref>
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.<ref>{{Church Times | title = Michaelmas ordinations | archive = 1992_10_09_006 | issue = 6765 | date = 9 October 1992 | page = 6 | accessed = 17 April 2024 }}</ref> He studied at Birmingham University for his MA.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/suffragan-bishop-of-bradford-toby-matthew-howarth|title = Suffragan Bishop of Bradford: Toby Matthew Howarth}}</ref> 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.<ref>Crockford's on-line accessed 3 December 2014</ref>
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